355 2ENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ziziphui. 



none. — Nectary as in the other species.— Anthers three-lobed. 



Germ two-celled, one ovulum in each, attached to the bottom of the 

 cell. — Drupe turbinate, size of a cherry, yellow.— Nut generally one- 

 celled. 



Ohs, by N. W. 



I have found this tree in .Nipal, at least one so closely allied to 

 those in the botanic garden that I dare not separate them. It is 

 rather rare in the vicinity of the valley, blossoming during the sum- 

 mer and ripening its fruits towards the end of the rains; it is also 

 found at Noakote; and I havehad specimens of it from Sjlhetuuderthe 

 name of Enoree (^rraft)- — Roths Z. obliqua, nov. spec. 160 is this very 

 species, as I have ascertained from specimens in Dr. Heyne's col- 

 lection ; and Z. paniculata of that work (p. 16l) scarcely differs from 

 either. The following description is taken from the tree of Nipal. it 

 grows to the height of twelve to sixteen feet, with irregular trunk; 

 crooked, spreading branches, and rough ash-coloured bark. — All the 

 young parts are most abundantly clothed with rust-coloured, soft to- 

 inentum ; the new shoots surrounded at the base with some persistent 

 bud-scales. Prickles short, robust, slightly recurved. — Leaves of the 

 old branches very large, their sides and base very unequal, apex round- 

 ed, mostly acute ; many-nerved, there being generally several lateral 

 nerves besides the principal three ; while young they are densely co- 

 vered with ferruginous soft tomentum. Petiols short, villous. Panicles 

 lateral and terminal on the naked branches, loose, ramous, generally 

 two or three together. Peduncles flexuose. Flowers crowded, sub- 

 sessile, in geminate umbellets. Calyx cup-shaped, smooth within, 

 as well as the pedicels yellowish ; lacinia lanceolate, acute. Corol 

 absolutely none.— Ovary two-celled, two-seeded, half plunged into a 

 fleshy, five-pitted, five-lobed, yellow disc ; style smooth, deeply bifid, 

 scarcely equalling the stamina in length. Drupe as large as a small 

 filbert, round-obovate, supported by the narrow remainder of the bot- 

 tom of the calyx, one-celled, one-seeded j it is eaten by the natives. 

 r- N.W. 



