$$£ PENTANDEJA MOnOGYlllA.. Ziziphv& 



them- Filaments subulate ; anthers erect. — Ovary oblong, immerse 

 ed in a flattish, five-lobed, fleshy disc; two-celled, two-seeded : ovu a, 

 erect. Style short, fleshy, two-lobed : each lobe slightly bifid, sq 

 $s to make the style appear four-lobed.. — Stigmas convex. 



Qbs. This and the two following species partake much of the ha, 

 bit and character of Ceanothus and Pomafcrris, and may perhaps 

 with Z. volutiilis, Linn, and a few others which, like them, have alter- 

 iiatety-ribhed equal leaves, be conveniently removed from this genus. 

 1 have ouly observed the £ruitojf one of them, Z.Jioribunda (and that 



ip a not quite ripe state) which is decidedly that 01 a Zizyphus. . 



r i he leaves of this species acquire a yellowish tint on getting dry^ 

 like some, of our East Indian , Symploci.— N. W".. 



21. Z floribunda, Wall. 



tiisarmtd, smooth, with rambling brandies; Leaves ovate, acute, 

 perfectly entire, retuse at the base, glaucous and paraiiel-ribbed un- 

 derneath. Panicle very large, terminal. Flowers racemose. Di tipe 

 sub-cylkidfic, 



I have found it at S'ankoo and Thankote in the valley of Nipaf, 

 and on Chuudragm, blossoming from May to August ; fruit ripening 

 in thiee months. — Mr. De Silva has also sent me flowering spe- 

 cimens from the Pundooa hills gathered" in the month of Juiy. 



Juyuma name, Ajomacha-Lanba ("^TX^IHT^T ^fT«T^T.) 



A very large, smooth shrub, winch is erect or, climbing according; 

 to circumstances; with very long and slender, cylindric branches, co- 

 ■veied with shining green bark ; glaucous while young.— Leaves alter- 

 nate, spreading, ovate, tapering, acute, or sub-acuminate, most entire, 

 With somewhat waved and repand margins and rounded or slightly 

 retuse base, coriaceous, dark green, shining and obliquely furrowed 

 above ; glaucous underneath, with numerous approximate, parallel^ 

 oblique, mostly opposite, simple nerves, and transversal capillary 

 veins; from tluee to five inches long.— -Petiol an inch long, slender, 

 channelled, bearing at the base an intra-axillary stipule exactly as 

 in the preceding species. — Panic:e terminal, oblong, attenuate^ 



