S6<5 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ZizipkltS. 



minute, ovate, immersed iu a flat lobed disc. Style deeply bifid, 



.— N. W. 



18. Z. calophylla, Wall. 



Shrubby, climbing, armed with solitary, short recurved prickles. 

 Leaves ovate-oblong, smooth, glossy, three-nerved, veinless, mi- 

 nutely crenulate. Corymbs terminal, pauicled. 



Discovered on the hills of Pulo Piuang by Mr. George Porter; 

 in flower in January. 



An extensive, scandent, smooth shrub, with slender, round bran- 

 ches, aimed with small, solitary, recurved prickles ; while young 

 slightly pubescent. — Leaves sub-bifariously alternate, ovate-oblong, 

 ending in a short, linear, blunt acumen ; base acute ; maigins minutely 

 serrulate 5 they are extremely beautiful, of a coriaceous structure, 

 perfectly smooth, glossy and shining above, with three elevated 

 nerves underneath, which run from the base to the very apex, per- 

 fectly veinless except when dry, or held towards the light : they then 

 appear elegantly marked with innumerable transversal, approximate, 

 capillary veins ; their length from three to five inches ; while very 

 young pubescent. Petiol half an inch long, channelled. Stipules 

 linear, one of them quickly deciduous, the other persistent, becom- 

 ing recurved and enlarging into a prickle. Flowers villous, disposed 

 in terminal, panicled, pubescent corymbs. — Lacinia of the calyx 

 broad-ovate, one-nerved above. Limb of the petals ovate, concave. 

 Style bifid.—N. VV, 



19. Z. elegans, Wall. 



Shrubby, erect, nearly unarmed, with filiform, pubescent branches* 

 and bifarious, lanceolate, serrulate, bluntly acuminate leaves, which 

 are smooth above, and pubescent underneath, 



i found this most elegant shrub, which has decidedly the habit and 

 leaves of aZizyphus, on Singapore, without flowers or fruit in October. 



Branches extremely slender, almost filiform, pubescent, armed 

 With very small, deciduous prickles; bark of the older ones soft. 



