Ziziphus. PENTANDR1A MONOGYNIA. 86? 



spungy, ferruginous. — Leaves approximate, bifarious, lanceolate, one 

 or two inches long, tapering into a linear, blunt acumen, rounded and 

 unequal at the base, margins most minutely serrulate from the very 

 base to the apex, smooth and shining above, with three pubescent 

 nerves underneath, veinless except when dry. Fetiol short, villous, 

 Stipules minute. — N. W. 



gO. Z.Jlavescens, Wall. 



Unarmed, smooth, climbing. "Leaves oblong-ovate, equal, acute, 

 glaucous, most entire, with many undivided, parallel ribs underneath* 

 Racemes terminal, simple. Flozeei^s fascicled. 



A native of the elevated regions about Gosain-Than, from whence 

 my people brought me specimens in flower in July. 



A climbing, smooth, unarmed, ramous shrub. Branches round,, 

 rather slender, brownish, polished, — Buds axiilary, oblong, small, 

 acute. — Leaves remotish, alternate, of a very regular oblong-ovate 

 form, ending in a sharp point, rounded at the base, sides equal and 

 perfectly entire ; bright green, opaque, and obliquely furrowed above; 

 glaucous, at length yellowish underneath, with elevated rib and very 

 numerous, approximate, undivided, parallel, oblique, filiform nerves, 

 running out to the very margin, the lowermost opposite ; and with, 

 capillary, transversal, reticulate veins; from three to five inches long. 

 — Fetiol very slender, about an inch long. Stipules single, intra-axii- 

 lary, erect, adpressed, with bifid, acute apex, two-keeled, longitu- 

 dinally concave or depressed back and gibbous base, inserted on the 

 base of the petiol in the axil, withering, about three lines long.—. 

 Racemes terminal on the branchlets, simple, about two inches 

 long, sessile, oblong, composed of several short-pedicelled fasci- 

 cles of small, nodding, unilateral, greenish {lowers. — Peduncles 

 about one-third of an inch long, with a minute fleshy bractlet 

 at the base. — Calyx turbinate, deeply divided into five triangular, 

 acute, slightly dotted lacinia.— Petals five, white, oblong, squa- 

 miform, sessile between the segments of the calyx and rather 

 shorter than they, vaulted, opposite to the stamina and embracing 



