374 G, King — Maleriah for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 3, 



o£ its first collector, H. H. Kunatler, who sent it from Province Wellesley 

 in 1881. 



4, ZiZYPHUS ELEGANS, Wall. Cat. 4233. A straggling or scandent 

 shrub : young branches slender, softly pubescent. Leaves ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, bluntly acuminate, oblique, the edges obscurely glandular- 

 serrate-crenate, the base slightly narrowed ; upper surface glabrous 

 except the pubescent nerves ; the lower sparsely pubescent especially 

 on the nerves ; the middle of the 3 main bold vertical nerves unbranched, 

 one, and sometimes botli, of the lateral sending a few faint branches 

 from one side ; length 2 to 3 in., breadth "75 to 1*25 in. ; petiole '25 to 

 •35,, tomentose. Cymes with stalks as long as the leaves, dichotomous, 

 20- 30-flowered, tomentose. Galyx adpressed-pubeseent outside, glab- 

 rous inside. Disc glabrous, fleshy, with 5 broad emarginate lobes, each 

 lobe with 3 deep pits ; styles short, slightly united. Drupe sub-globular, 

 compressed, glabrous, "3 in. in diam., pulp very thin, endocarp leathery. 

 M. suhquinquenervius, Miq. Fl. lud. Bat., Suppl. 330. 



Singapore ; Wallich, King's Collector. Malacca ; Ridley No. 1504. 

 Maingay ( Kew Dist.) No. 412. i^erak : King's Collector, No. 4260 

 and 4770 — Distrib. ; Sumatra, Forbes 3137; Diepenhorst. 



This species was first described by Miquel from specimens collected 

 at Piianam in Sumatra, one of which is in Herb. Calcutta. Miquel does 

 not describe the fruit, which differs fi'om that of Z. Horsfieldii of the 

 same author iu being smaller and glabrous. This is no doubt very 

 closely allied to Z. Horsfieldii, and it would have been better had 

 Miquel transposed the names of the two ; for there is much more dis- 

 position to an increase in the number of the nerves of the leaves in 

 Z. Horsfieldii than in Z. subquinquenervis. Wallich had however, long 

 prior to the publication of Miquel's name for this, issued leafless twigs 

 of it as No. 4233 of his Catalogue, under the name Z. elegans ; and 

 this name must therefore, as the earliest, be adopted. 



5. ZiZYPHUS CALOPHYLLA, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey, II, 

 366. A powerful climber ; young branches dark-coloured, rusty- 

 puberulous or glabrous, sparsely lenticellate ; prickles short, recurved, 

 usually solitary, rai-ely in pairs. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic- 

 oblong, shortly and obtusely acuminate, the edges minutely crenate- 

 dentate or sub-entire ; the base usually narrowed, not oblique ; both 

 surfaces glabrous, shining, the upper pale, olivaceous ; main nerves 3, 

 bold, unbranched, vertical; length 3 to 5 in., breadth 1"5 to 25 in., 

 petiole 25 to '35 in. Cymes rusty-pubescent, disposed in axillary or 

 terminal thyrsoid panicles. Calyx rusty-tomentose outside, glabrous 

 inside; its teeth broadly triangular, acute, spreading. Disc entire. 

 Styles united to near the apex. Drupe minutely rufous-tomentose, 



