Ziziphus. PENTANDRTA MONOGYNIA. 3&) 



sessile, nodding with the end of the branch, from six to twelve in- 

 ches long, with alternate branches, divided into numerous, slander, 

 from two to three inches long, cylindric racemes of very small, white, 

 fascicled smooth flowers, on very short capillary pedicels.— Common 

 peduncle smooth, slightly flexuose ; partial ones pubescent. — There 

 13 a small pubescent, deciduous bracte under each sub-division of the 

 peduncles. — Lacuna of the calyx lanceolate, acute, with an elevated 

 longitudinal line above. — Petals five, spathulate, cowled, minutely 

 crispate, opposite to and involving the stamina, sessile, shorter than 

 the calyx. Ovary extremely small, immersed in the centre of a flat, 

 smooth, yellow, fleshy disc. Style very short, columnar, somewhat 

 fleshy. Stigma convex, two-Iobed. — Drupes very numerous, dense- 

 ly racemose, sub-cylindric, pointed with the permanent style, sup- 

 ported at the base bv the small persistent bottom of the calyx and the 

 withered disc, of a purple colour, smooth, about two-thirds of an inch 

 long, containing a bony, two-celled nut. — N. W. 



22. Z. hamosa, Wall. 



Climbing, with opposite branches and alternate, reflexed, slightly 

 curved thorns. Leaves sub-opposite, oblong, acuminate, serrulate, 

 ribbed : the axils of the nerves villous. Flowers fascicled, in villous, 

 short-panicled, terminal racemes. 



An inhabitant of Chundrughi in Nipal where it climbs upon trees 

 and shrubs to a great extent, flowering in the month of August. 



This is likewise a very large, rambling and climbing, ramous shrub. 

 Branches round, long, opposite, or alternate, in which case a spine 

 generally occupies the place of the branch which is wanting, covered 

 with smooth greyish bark; while young brownish, obscurely four-cor- 

 nered, a little dotted and pubescent. — Spines remote, strong, sub-cy- 

 lindric, sharp-pointed, an inch or an inch and a half long, reflexed so 

 as to form an acute angle below with the branch, gently curved to- 

 ward their apex ; on older branches, as also on the stem they are ge- 

 nerally wanting. — Leaves nearly opposite, coriaceous, smooth, ob- 

 long, tapering into a long.acumen, acute or rounded at the base ; with 



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