ZiziphuS. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 5GS 



Flowers greenish. Fetals very small, reflexed between the Uci- 

 uiae el the calyx. Ovary two-celled, tsvo-seeded, surrounded \tf 

 a lobed and waved disc. Style deepl) two-cleft.-- Drupe bin* J, 

 round, dark purple, with a two-celled nut.— N. W. 



Additional species by N. W. 



17. Z.Jlexuosa, Wall. 



Shrubby, smooth, with spinous flexuose branches and unarmed 

 straight branchlets. Spines unequal, one very long and straight, 

 the other recurved. Leaves lanceolate, obtuse, creuate. Flowers 

 axillary, sub-solitary. 



A native of Gosaiu-Than in the Hz'malwya, and from thence 

 introduced into the garden of my inestimable friend the Hn, 

 Edward Gardner, resident at the court of the Raja of Nipal, with 

 whom I had the happiness of living for nearly twelve months in that 

 glorious country, and to whose unbounded kindness and indefatiga- 

 ble co-operation I am indebted for whatever success may have at- 

 tended my researches there. — Time of blossoming May. 



It is a large, elegant, branchy, smooth shrub. Brunches slender, 

 round, dotted, flexuose, spinous; while young they are unarmed, 

 purplish and straight. — Thorns geminate under the ramifications and 

 at each bend of the branches, unequal, smooth, shining, brown 

 mahogony coloured ; one of them short and recurved, the other 

 straight, slender, about an inch long. — Leaves approximate, sub- 

 bifariously alternate, lanceolate, obtuse or retuse with a small point, 

 unequally crenate, an inch or two long, smooth, shining, three-nerved, 

 reticulate. — Fetiol very short. — Stipules unequal, linear, rather pun- 

 gent, enlarging and becoming spines by age — Flowers axillary, soli- 

 tary, or few-fascicled, yellowish, rather large, on short pedicels, 

 Which have a few minute scales at their base. — Calyx flat, spread- 

 ing; lacinia, ovate, acute, one-nerved on their upper surface. Petals 

 luiuute, spoon-shaped, with long claws, and rounded apex, spread- 

 ing, and at length reflexed together with the stamens. —Ovary 



