j XLii. RHAMNEa;. (M. A. Lawson.) 635' 



straight the other recurved, glahrous. Oymes compact, 1-lJ inl Flowers sometimes 

 4-merouB. Calym glabrous within. JPetals snbspathulate, very concave, reflexed. Diah 

 thin, 5-angled. Ovary 3- rarely 2- or 4-pelled ; styles usually 3, divided to near the 

 ijase. Frvit globose, 3- rarely 2- or 4-oelled, very hard and woody and covered with a 

 dense almost felted grey or whitish tomentum. 



Vae. ; branches leaves and fniit nearly, glabrous, fruit oblong or round. — ^Perhaps the 

 Z. Caracutta of Eoxhurgh. 



9. Z. Napeca, WUld. Sp. PI. 1104; profusely armed, branches inflo- 

 rescence and petioles covered with, spreading rusty hispid hairs, leaves 

 Ij-'gJ by |-1^ in. elliptic obtuse or very shortly cuspidate finely serrulate 

 dark and glabrous on both surfaces, styles 2. Ehamnus Napeca, Linn. Sp, 

 \U\ Fl. Z^lan.S7. 



Cetlon, Herb. Mnnceus. 



A straggling shrub. Leaves slightly oblique, rounded at the base, glabrous, or when^ 

 young slightly hispid on the nerves beneath. Prichhi solitary or geminate, stout, hairy, 

 dark, both recurved. Styles eijusclling the ovary, arms recurved, ' Fruit ?— This, by 

 inspection of the specimens preserved in Hermann's Herbarium, I have determined to 

 be the true Z. Napeca of JiinnEous. No modern collector has sqnt it from Ceylon, 

 whence it may be suspected that the habitat is erroneous. 



10. Z. luclda, Moon Gat. 17 ; armed, leaves 2-2^ by f-li in. ovate-Ian^ 

 ceokte glabrous above hairy on the veins beneath, styles S^j ia- divided to 

 the middle, fruit \ in. diam. Thwaites Enum. 74. 



Ceylon, Wdlher, Thwaites. 

 ■ A prickly shrub. Branches far climbing, round, glabrous or hairy when young, blackj 

 Leaves oblique, crenate-serrate with a minute bristle in each crenature, minutely apicu'- 

 late. Prickles solitary, very short, recurved. Flowers in pednnculated cymes about 

 1 in. very tairy. Petals tV '"■> deeply cuculate on a slender claw. Bisk faintly 

 B-angled, not pitted. Fruit globose, black, smooth.— Very closely allied to Z. Napeca, 



11. Z. XilnnaBl, Laws.; armed, leaves 1^-2 by |-li in. ovate glabrous 

 and shining, styles 4 exceedingly minute. Z. Napeca, Linn. Herb, not 

 Herb. Hermann. 



Ceylon, Walker. ' ' 



A prickly shrub. SroncAes round, glabrous, pale. ieo«cs nearly synimetncal.crenate 

 without 'the bristles and not apieulate, pale green. Prickles solitary, very short, tc- 

 curved. Cymes shortly-pedunculed, about 1 in., nearly glabrous. Fioioers larger than 

 inZ.lwdda. Peia/s deeply cuculate, but on rather less slender claws. Ihsk tamtly 

 S-angled, not pitted. Fruit ?— This is the Z. Napeca in the Limn, Rerh., but not of 

 Hermann's herbarium. 



12. Z. incurva, Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 614 ; armed, leaves 2-3i by l-lf in. 

 ovate or ovate-oblong acute or subacuminate glabrous, petals 5, ovary 

 2-celled, styles 2, fruit f in. long. DG. Prodr. ii. 20; Don Prodr. l&d; 

 Wal}. Vat. 4237. 



NiPAL, VaZKcft; Bhotan, Griffith; Western Peninsula, Nilghiri Mts., Eerl. 



■■■'a tree? Leaves crenate-serrate, membranous,, turning black in drying. Ct^mes 

 I' in. Calyx hairy outside, glabrous within. Petfds suboucullate. l^isfc 10-lobed, 

 with a pit opposite each lobe. StyUs divided to the middle. Fruit elhpsoid, woody, 

 2-celled, 2-seeded. 



13. Z. apetala, Hooh. f.; armed, Jeaves 24-4 by 1-1* in. obliquely- 

 ovate acute or acuminate glabrous, petals 0. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, J. -D. -H. , . , r «„..... 



A shrub ; young branches and flowers covered with feiTnginous pubescence. Leaves 

 crenate-serrate, membranous. PricUea recurved, very short and sharp, base brosd. 



