634 , xLiT. HHAMNEiE. , (M. A. Lawson.) [Zizyphus, 



A shrab or small tree, with rigid spreading bougts and stiff branches, which _ ar« 

 often unarmed, the whole plant quite glabrous. Friekles usually gemmate, the straigM 

 one often over 1 in. long, stout. Flowers few, fascicled in the axils of the leaves. 

 PetaZs cucullate. ilisi thin, obscurely 5-lobed. Ovary 2 -celled; styles 2, united to 

 the middle. Fruit globose or oblong, succulent, red or black, shining.— .if. nUida, Koxb., 

 of China, is said to have a jellow fruit. 



6. Z. oxyphylla, Udgeto. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 43 ; armed, leaves 

 1-2 in. obliquely ovate acute or subacuminate glabrous on both- sides, 

 fruit elliptic | in. long. Brandis For. Fl. 85. Z. acununata, EoyU 111. L 

 168 (ywrnie only). 



Hazaeab, Falconer; Tempeeate Himalata, in Sirmor and Garwhal, ascending to 

 6000 ft.. Falconer, Edgeworih, &c. , , . 



A shrub or small tree, 25-30 ft., resembling Z. vulgaris in habit; whole plant quite 

 glabrous. Prickles usually geminate, the straight one \ in. long, slender. Leaves 

 finely crenate-serrate. Flowers fascicled in the axils of the leaves._ Petals and disk 

 as in Z. vvlgaris. Fruit 1-celled, l-seeded, subfleshy, black, very acid ; stone thin and 

 crustaceous, flattened. 



7. Z. CEnoplla, Mill. Gard. Diet. No. 3 ; armed, leaves 1-2^ by |-1 m. 

 very obliquely ovate-lanceolate acute witli a short soft pubescence above, and 

 long silky appressed fulvous hairs beneath, fruit % in. diam. BG. Prod/r. ii. 

 21 ; Roaii. Fl. Ind. i. 611 ; Wall. Gat. 4246 ; Don Prodr. 190 ; W. & A. 

 Prod/r. 163; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 49; Thwaiies Enum. 74; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixix. ; Brandis For. Fl. 86. Z. albens, Ro:A. Fl. Ind. i. 

 607. Z. celtidifolia, DG. Prod/r. ii. 20. Z. ferruginea, Hevne tn WaU. 

 Gat. 4246 B, in part. Z. Napeca, Boxb. Fl. Ind.i. 612, not Willd. ; Roth 

 Nov. Sp. 159. Z. pallens, WaU. Gat. 4247 ?. Z. pedicellata, Wall. Cai. 

 4243. Z. rufula, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I 643. Z. scandens, Roxb. EoH. 

 Beng. 17 ; Wall. Gat. 7269. Ehamnus CEnoplia, Linn. Sp. Pi. 282. 



Throughout the hotter parts of India, from the Panjab and the N.W. Himalaya to 

 Assam and southwards to Ceylon and Malacca. — Disteie. Tropical Asia and 

 Australia. 



A shrub with straggling often climbing branches, the young ones stri^ose or oftener 

 covered with a rust-coloured pubescence. Leaves crenate-serrate. I^ckles solitary, 

 very short, recurved. Cymes under J in. long. Flowers glabrous within. Petals ob- 

 trianguW, cucuUate. Ovary 2-celled ; styles 2, united to above the middle. Fruit 

 1- rarely 2-celled, black and shining, globose or obovoid ; stone woody or 'bony. 



** Flowers in pedunculate axillary cymes (see 2. glabrata). 



8. Z. xjrlopyrus, WiUd. Sp. PI. 1104; armed or on the younger 

 branches often unarmed, branches inflorescence and fruit covered mth a 

 short greyish tomentum, leaves 1^3i in. broadly-elKptic orbicular or ob- 

 ovate glabrous and dark above covered with a soft pale pubescence beneath, 

 fruit 1^1 in. diam. Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 611; Wall. Gal. 4239; DG. 

 Prodr. ii. 21; W. & A. Prodr. 162; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 49; 

 Thwaites Enum. 74; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixviii. ; Brandis For. 

 Fl. 90. Z. Caracutta, Roicb. Fl. Ind. i. 612; Wall. Gat. 4238. Z. cuneata, 

 WaU. Gat. 7268. Z. eHiptica, RooA. Fl. Ind. i. 610. Z. orbicularis, 

 Schult. Syst. V. 338; DG. Prodr. ii. 21. Z. ruminata, Ham. in Wall, 

 Cat. 4236. Z. rotundifoUa, Roth Nov. Sp. 160. Ehamnus xylopyruSj 

 Retz Obs. ii. 11. 



North- West India, Moyle, Edgeworfh. Nipal, Wallich; Band a, Eajpootana, 

 Ohde, ascending to 2000 ft. ; Behab, Westeen Peninsdla, from the Concan south- 

 wards. Ceylon, in hot dry places. 



A large straggling shrub or small tree, often gregarious, deciduous. Leaves slightly 

 oblique, rounded or subcordate at the base, serrulate. PricMes usually geminate, one 



