St>2 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ZisipIlUS. 



dark ash-coloured bark. The young shoots are round, and villous. 

 They blossom in April, and the fruit ripens in December. 



Thorns in stipulary pairs, the lower one recurved, the upper one 

 Straight, both are hard, smooth, and^acute ; where the flowers are, 

 the thorns are generally deficient. — Leaves shorUpetioled, obliquely 

 round-cordate, or nearly round, obtuse, or retuse, serrulate, three- 

 nerved ; while young somewhat villous; from one to two inches long, 

 and nearly as broad. — Peduncles axillary, very short, bearing many 

 small, shorUpedicelled, greenish-yellow floweis. — Style three-cleft.— 

 Drupe the size of a large cherry, oval, Repressed a little at both ends, 

 smooth, dark-brown ; tiesliy part tough, firm, and yellowish. Nut 

 roundish, a little uneven on the outside, very hard and thick, three- 

 ceiled — Seeds solitary, attached to. the bottom of the cell, nearly round, 

 compressecT, convex on the inside. Integuments two ; the exterior 

 firm, light brown, and polished; the inner thin and softer. Peris- 

 perm; when the seed is ripe, there is only on each side of the em- 

 bryo a white, fleshy lamina; but at this period not connected round 

 its margins, as before maturity. Embryo, erect ; cotyledons two, near- 

 ly five-nerved. Radicle inferior, oval, just within the umbilicus. 



13. Z, microphylla, R. 



Shrubby; branchleti bjfarious, ftexuose. Thorns stlpulary, one 

 straight, the other recurved. Leaves ovate, three-nerved, serrulate* 

 woolly underneath. Flowers fascicled. Stigma two-cleft. 



Jujuhas zizyphus zeyianica, Pluck. Aim. 199. t. 197/. 2. 



Mhamnus nummularia, Burm. ind. 6 1. 



Common en, barren uncultivated lands on the Coromandel coast, 

 Floweiing time the beginning of the rainy season. 



Stem scarcely any, but many slender, rigid, bifarious, flexuose 

 branches spreading in ail directions, and forming a small bush. Bark 

 covered with a ligiit-coioured, almost vyhite pellicle. — Thorns stipu- 

 lary, the upper one straight, slender, but very sharp, and as long as 

 the leaves. The under one shorter, and much recurved. — Leaves al- 

 ternate, hifariou's, very shos t-petioled, ovate and oval, serrulate, above 



