1875.] of the Burmese 'Flora. 167 



Smythea, Seem. 

 1. S. calpicaepa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872. 301 ; Hf. in 

 Ind. Fl. I. 632. 



Hae. Tenasserim (Helf. 2026/1). 



Zizyphus, Juss. 

 Conspectus of species. 



* Flowers in axillary cymes or clusters. 



Leaves more or less tomentose or pubescent beneath. Drupes sappy, 

 quite glabrous. 

 Leaves coriaceous, densely fulvous or whitish tomentose beneath, glabrous above ; drupe 



J — | in. long, the putamen 2-celled ; erect shrub or tree, Z. jujuba. 



Leaves membranous, above thinly beneath densely silky pubescent ; drupe the size of 



a pea, the putamen 1- rarely 2-celled ; erect or scandent shrub, Z. oenoplia. 



Leaves glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs on the nerves beneath. 

 Leaves green, thin chartaceous ; drupes while young tawny tomentose, adult woody, 



. . Z. glabra. 



* * Cymes collected into leafy or leafless panicles. Drupes woody. 



Leaves glabrous, rigidly chartaceous ; drupes glabrous ; climber, Z. funiculosa. 



Leaves densely fulvous tomentose or pubescent beneath ; drupes glabrous ; leaf-shedding 

 tree, Z. rugosa. 



1. Z. jujuba, Lamk. Exc. Meth. III. 3 IS ; Wight Icon. t. 99 ; Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. I. 60S ■ Griff. Not. Dicot. 49 i ; Edgew. in Linn. Proc. VI. 201 ; 

 Hook. Journ. Bot. I. t. 140 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Madr. t. 149 ; Brand. For. 

 Fl. 86. t. 17 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 632. 



Hab. Common in the leaf-shedding, especially the dry and savannah- 

 forests, of Prome and Ava, less frequent in those of the other provinces ; 

 also frequently cultivated in and around villages. — Fl. Aug., Sept. ; Fr. 

 Octob. to Jan. 



2. Z. oenoplia, Mill. Diet. No. 3 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 611 ; Hf. Ind. 

 Fl. I. 634, excl. syn. Z. aliens, Roxb.— (Z. Napecd, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 613, 

 non L ). 



Vae. a. giabeescens, leaves green on both sides, shortly and thinly 

 pubescent. Usually a straggling shrub. 



Vae. B. pebbuginescens, leaves tawny villous beneath ; usually a lofty 

 climber. 



Vae. y. pedicellaeis (Z. peclicellaris,~Wa}\. Cat. 4243), as preceding, 

 but cymes longer peduncled and larger, pedicels about 3 lin. long. 



Hab. Common all over Burma and the adjacent islands, as well in 

 the leaf-shedding as in the evergreen forests ; var. B. is a more southern 

 form, frequent in Martaban, Tenasserim, the Andamans, etc. ; var. y. in 

 Prome— Fl. Sept. Octob. ; Fr. C. S. 



