636 XLii. HHAMNE^. (M. A. Lawson.) {Ziayphm. 



Cymes I4 in. Calyx hairy inside. Bisk 5-lobed, corrugated, hairy. Ovary 2-ceJled ; 

 styles 2, united to a little above the middle. 



14. Z. borrlda, Roth Nov. Sp. 159 ; profusely armed, leaves f-lj , 

 by 1-1 in. suborbicular glabrous, petals 5, ovary 3-celled, styles 3 minute, 

 fruit I in. diain. DC. Prodr. ii. 20 ; W. & A. Frodr. 163 ? 



Westeew Peninsula, Wight; the Cqncan, Stocks. 



A ahrub with slender divaricating branches. Leaves coarsely serrate, especially, at 

 the apex. Prickles geminate, very short, straight and recurved, the straight one |in. 

 long or more. Flowers in dense cymes 1 in. long. Calyx hairy outside, glabrous in- 

 side. Petals spathulate, concave. Disk 6-angled, not pitted. Styles divided to nearly 

 the base. Fruit globose, woody, 3-celled, 3-seeded. — Although this description does 

 not entirely agree with that of Both, I do not know to what other species his desqrip- 

 tion can apply. Z. Bhunder, Boyle III. i. 168 (name only), is scarcely determinable, 

 but is apparently closely allied to this species. 



*** Mowers in pedunculated cymes, which a/re disposed in leafless (yardy 

 leafl/y) simple or compound spikes. 



15. Z. calopbylla, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 366 ; armed, 

 leaves 4-5 by 2-2^ in. elliptic-oblong shortly and obtusely acuminate entire 

 with 3 very prominent unbranched nerves glabrous, petals 5, fruit f in. 

 diam. Wail. Gat. 4230. Berohemia calophylia, Q. Don Gen. Syst. ii 28. 



PENAKd, fVallich; Malacca, Oriffith, Maingay. — Distrib. Borneo. 



A shrub, with climbing branches and black bark ; wholly glabrous with the exception 

 of the flowers and fruit. Leaves coriaceous. Prickles solitary, recurved, short, stout, 

 base broad. Cymes usually disposed in terminal thyrsoid panicles. Calyx hairy out- 

 side, glabrous within. Petals ovate, concave. Disk 5-angled, not pitted, glabrous. 

 Ovary 2-celled, puberulous ; styles 2. Fruit globose, woody, covered with a light- 

 brown pubescence, at length glabrous. — Kurz (in, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, ii. 73) 

 identifles with this species Z, ornata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Pat. i. 642. 



16. Z. funiculosa, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 4234; armed, leaves 2^5 

 by |-2 in. ovate or ovate-oblong obtusely acuminate with 3 very prominent 

 unbranched nerves, petals 5, fruit obovoid | in. long. ? Z. venulosa, Wall. 

 Cat. 4si35. 



Easteen Bengal, the Khasia Mts., and Silhet, WalUcTi, &c. ? Bibha, Griffith ; 

 Tenasseeim, BeZ/er ; Malacca, Jfmn^a^. — Disteib. ? Borneo. 



A shrub ?; young branches and flowers puberulous ; branches long slender climbing. 

 Leaves crenate. PricMes short, stout, recurved, quite glabrous. Cymes disposed in 

 leafless rarely leafy panicles. Petals ououUate. Lisk famtly 10-lobed, not pitted, gla- 

 brous. Ovary 2-celled ; styles 2, divided to nearly the base. Fruit 1-oelled, 1-seeded, 

 fleshy, glabrous. — Z. venulosa. Wall. Cat. 4235, may be a more slender form of the above. 



17. Z> ru^osa, Lamh. Diet. iii. 319; armed, leaves 2i-6 in. ellip- 

 tic glabrous above young tomentosely pubescent beneath, the older 

 nearly glabrous, petals 0, fruit ^ in. obovoid or globose. DC. Prodr. ii. 

 20; W. & A. Prodr. 162 ; Wi^t Ic. 339 ; Dak. & GUbs. Bomb. Fl. 49 : 

 Thwaites Enum. 73 ; Brandts For. Fl. 89. t Z. Burrsea, Sam. in Wall. 

 Cat. 4240 g. Z. glabra, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 614; Wall. Cat. 4242. Z. latifolia, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. '607; Wail. Cat. 4240; DC. Prodr. ii. 20. Z. obliqua, 

 Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 161 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 20. Z. panicula;ta. Roth Nw). 

 Sp. 160 ; WaU. Gat. 4241. DC. Prodr. ii. 20. ? Z. tomentosa, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. i. 611. ? Rhamnus glabratus, <Herb. Heyne in Wall. Cat. 7479. 



Teopical Himalaya, in Kumaon and' Sikkim. Behab, /. D. B. Assam, and 

 Silhet, Wallich, &c. Bibma, Griffith. Westeen Peninsula, from the Concan south- 

 wards; Ceylos, common up to 20(50 ft. 



A straggling evergreen large shrub, or small tree, often climbing. PricMiS usually 



