Ziziphus* PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 3.01 



Rhamnus Xylopyrus, Retz. obs. ii. 11. 



Telinga. Gou. 



Common in every forest on the coast of Coromande.l. 



In a good soil it grows to be a pietty laige tree, with a tolerably 

 erect trunk, but in general it is found in the state of a 'arge straggling 

 shrub. Lark ii^ht ash-coloured, much cracked, corky; young parts 

 covered with soft white down. — r l lit prickles in, a poor soil are always 

 present and stipulary, the under one recurved, the upper one erect and 

 stia.ght. — Leaves alternate, shoit-petioled, bifaiious, obliquely-cor- 

 date, seirate, three-nerved, downy, particulaily on the under side, about 

 two inches long — Corymbs axillary, small, many-flowered. Flowers as 

 in the genus, — Style three-cleft. — Drupe the size of a large cheny,. 

 gieeinsh and downy, maiked round the base with the remains of tlie 

 neeiaiy. but three-celled, three valved, the valves separating when 

 tlie nut lias been sometime exposed to the weather, leaving a centi ical 

 three- sided receptac.e. — Seeds one in each cell, oibicular, compress- 

 ed, affixed at the base to the receptacle. 



Cattle eat the leaves, young shoots, and fruit. The kernels taste 

 like filberts, and are eaten by the Natives. 



The wood of the largest trees is much esteemed by the natives ; 

 being yellowish or orange-coloured, very hard, and duiable, aud.ai the. 

 same time not very heavy. 



32 Z. Caracutta, Buck, 



Aiboreous Thorns in pairs; the under one recurved, tlie upper 

 one straight. Leaves round, serrulate, three-nerved. PediwclesdxW- 

 larv, very short, many-flowered. Style three-cleft. Drupe oval, with 

 a tlnee-ceiled nut. 



A native of the Southern parts of Mysore, and there known to the 

 natives by the name Karaktitta. Seeds sent from thence by Dr. 

 Buchanan to the botanic garden at Calcutta produced plants, which 

 in four years were about ten feet high, with a tolerably erect, stout 

 trunk, and many spreading, crooked branches ; covered with smooth, 



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