Ziziphm. *ENTANDRIA MONOCYNIA: Q53 



site, ciliate, acute. — Fascicles shorter than the petals of the full grown 

 leaves. Flowers greenish, always hermaphrodite and four-cleft in 

 their wild state. Petals almost capillary, measuring scarcely half 

 the length of the laciniae of the calyx — Stamina a little longer than 

 the petals.— Style cleft in two to the middle. Stigmas convex. — 

 Fierry from two to three-celled, two or three-seeded, of a purple 

 colour, supported by the small truncate calyx, resembling in every 

 respect the common Buckthorn (Rh. catharticus.) 



It is certainly very much like the last mentioned species, nor 

 pei haps to be separated except on account of its greater size, its 

 more acuminate leaves, and the invariably united flowers. The 

 wood is very hard and heavy, of a chocolate colour towards the cen- 

 tre; 1 am not aware that it is prized by the inhabitants of Nipal, nor 

 does the size of the stem, which scarcely ever exceeds six inches in 

 diameter, admit of its being employed to any considerable extent in 

 carpentry. — N. W. 



4 R. lucidus, R. 



Sub-aiboreous, armed with short, opposite and solitary, recurved 

 aculei. Leaves opposite, from round to oblong, emarginate, entire, 

 polished and firm. Peduncles axillary, short, from two to four- 

 flowered. Berries globular, generally two-seeded. 



A small, very ramous tree, with far spreading and straggling, some- 

 what scandent branches ; a native of the Mauritius. It is very near- 

 ly allied to R. circumscissus, the chief difference is in the leavea 

 being entire and retuse, or emarginate in this species. 



ZIZIPHVS, Lamarck. 



Calyx five-parted. Corol five-petalled. Germ hid in a crenu- 



late, flat nectary, from two to three-celled ; cells one-seeded ; attach- 



ment inferior. Drupe superior, nut from one to three, or more, one" 



seeded. Embryo erect, with scanty perisperro, or none* 



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