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31 ; 
i ‘Spec. Oar. Shrub or small tree: leaves broadly-oval, obtuse} 
Somewhat attenuated at the base, coriaceous: cymes axillary, 
erect, many-flowered, much shorter than the leaves: capsule slen« 
der, cylindrical, pointed, 2-valved: testa crimson: flowets white. 
; Western slopes of the Neilgherries, below Sisparah, flowering in 
Februaty; 
(5) M. cancintrorta. Wall.) 
Ident. Wight’s Icon. vol. III. . i 
, Syn, Euonymous garcinifolius, Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 628.—Ed. 
Wall. Il. p. 403.—E. lacerus, Buch. Dec. prod. II. p. 5.—Cas- 
sine discolor, Wall. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 761. ee 
Spec. Cuar. Small tree; leaves lanceolar, acuminated, entire : 
orymbs axillary, small, few-flowered: capsule 2-valved, dehiscing 
tom the base: flowers small, yellow, 
Silhet, flowering néarly all the year. 
ORDER XLIX. RHAMNACEZ. 
Trees or shrubs, often with thorns: leaves alternate, with 
gmall stipules: calyx 4—5-cleft, valvate: petals distinct; inserted 
into the throat of the calyx, sometimes wanting: stamens defi- 
nite, opposite the petals: ovary free or immersed or adherent 
to the tube of the calyx, 2-4-celled: ovules solitary: fruit fleshy 
and indehiscent or dry and. separating in 3 divisions: seeds 
rect: albumen fleshy. 
GENUS L ZIZYPHUS. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv, From Zizouf, the Arabic name for the lotus. 
_ Gun. Cuar.. Shrubs or trees; stipules usually 2, thorny, one 
straight, the other recurved or solitary, and spinescent, rarely both 
caducous: leaves alternate, 8-nerved: cymes axillary: calyx 
patent, 5-cleft: petals obovate, unguiculate: stamens exserted : 
anthers. ovate, 2-celled, opening lengthwise: disk pentagonal : 
ovary 2~3-celled, immersed: styles 2~3, diverging or combined : 
fruit i a a 1-2-celled nut: séeds compressed, very 
smooth. 
