370 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ZizlphvS. 



waved, minutely and sharply serrulate margins; shining dark green 

 above ; paler underneath, ribbed with parallel, oblique, entire, remotisli 

 nerves, the axils of which are slightly faveolate and villous ; veins trans- 

 versal, minutely and elegantly reticulate; from four to sixteen inches 

 long. — Petiols about an iuch long, deeply furrowed, the margin of the 

 furrow sharp, sometimes waved. — Stipules at the base of the petiol, 

 very small, lanceolate, striate, a little pubescent, deciduous. — Panicle 

 termmal, and from the exterior axillae, shorter than the leaves, vil- 

 lous, divided into sub-opposite, cylindric racemes — Flowers small, 

 greenish, fascicled. Peduncles round, covered with grey villosity. 

 Bracles lanceolar, very caducous. Calyx pubescent, divided into 

 five triangular, acute lacini<B t which are keeled above.— Petals ex- 

 ceedingly small, oblong, obtuse, entire, couled, hiding the stamens. 

 Phtillum and disc as in the preceding. — N. W. 



23. Z. oppositifolia, Wall. 



Climbing, with opposite ramifications and short straight thorns, which 

 grow out into branches. Leaves opposite, smooth, ovate-lanceolate, 

 serrulate, tapering-acuminate, sub-retuse at the base, ribbed under- 

 neath. Racemes axillary and terminal, short, villous, 



I have only found this in the forest at Gokwrna in the valley of 

 Nipal, blossoming in August and September. 



This species is very much like the last described, but is no doubt 

 distinct. — It is very large and extensively climbing. Branches diva- 

 ricate, round, dotted ; while young pubescent, widening at their 

 divisions. — Spines alternate, straight, rigid, tapering from a round 

 sub-cylindric base, about half an inch long, soon growing out 

 into a branch. — Leaves opposite, or so near each other as to be 

 almost opposite, spreading, firm and coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, 

 tapering from the rounded or sub-retuse base into a long acumen, 

 acutely and minutely serrulate, scarcely at all waved, two or three, 

 at the furthest, four inches long, dark green and shining above,strong- 

 ly ribbed with sub-alternate nerves underneath ; on short channelled 

 pubescent petioles. — Racemes terminal, ramous and panicled, sim- 



