642 XLii. rhamnejE. (M. A. Lawson.) [Sageretia. 



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The Salt and SnuMAs Eaitges, alt. 2-8000 ft., Fleming; Hazaka, Stewart; 

 Western Himalaya, alt. 3-8000 ft., from Kashmir to Simla. — Distrib. Beluchietan, 

 China. 



A sarmentose spinous shrub with long slender branches. Mowers in long slender 

 interrupted spikes. Spines axiA flower branches squarrose, or at the ends of the pendant 

 branches. Fruit the size of a pea, globose, succulent, irregularly rugose, dark brown. — 

 The fruit is sweet to the taste and extensively eaten, the leaves are used as a sub- 

 stitute for tea. 



Vae. diospiryfoUa ; a scrubby shrub not sarmentose, leaves shorter and broader, 

 flower- spikes shorter. S. theezans, Brand. For. Fl. 95. Khamnea? diospyrifolia, 

 WaU, Cat. 4251.— Ava, WaUich. 



4. S. Srandrethlana, A itch, in Joum. Linn. Soc. viii. 62; leaves 

 |-1 in. elliptic crenate or nearly entire glabrous above covered with a dense 

 white woolly tomentum beneath 4r-8-nerved very shortly petioled, Boies. Fl. 

 Orient, ii. 22 ; Brand. Fvr. Fl. i. 95. 



North Western [kdla ; the Salt Eange, Jhelum and Peshawur, Fleming, &c. — 

 Distrib. Westward to Persia and Arabia. 



A scrubby shrub, with numerous spinose pubescent branches. Flowers in terminal 

 and axillary panicles. Fruit the size of a small pea, ovoid, 3-lobed, succulent, black, 

 with raised longitudinal lines. — The fruit is sweet and much eaten by the Affghans. 

 Brandis. 



5. GORTMB03A, G. Don Gen. Syst. ii. 29, is a West Indian species incorrectly stated 

 by Don to be East Indian. 



9. COX.VBXt.INA, Eich. 



Erect shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flowers in very short asUlary cymes. 

 Calyx 5-fid; tube hemispherical. Petals 5, clawed, springing from the 

 margin of the disk, hooded. Stamens 5. Disk fleshy, filling the calyx-tube. 

 Ovary sunk in the disk and confluent with it, 3-ceUed ; style 3-cleft ; 

 . stigmas reflexed. Fruit the size of a pea, subglobose, surrounded below the 

 middle by the remains of the calyx-tube, 3-ceUed, cells l-seeded, tardily 

 dehiscent. — Disteib. Species 10, chiefly tropical American. 



1. C. asiatica, Brongn. in Ann^ Sc. Nat. ser. 1, x. 369; whole plant 

 quite glabrous, leaves l|-2 in. by j-l| in. acuminate. W. & A. Prodr. 166 ; 

 Wight III. i. t. 74 : Balz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 50 ; Thwaites Enwm. 75 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. Ixix. C. javanica, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. pt. 1, 649. 

 Ceanothus asiaticus, Lamh. HI. t 129, f. 2; DC. Prodr. ii. 30; Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. i. .615; Wall. Cat. 4262. C. capsularis, Forst. Prodr. 18; DC. 

 Prodr. ii. 32. Pomaderris capsularis, G. Don Gen. Sj/st. ii. 39; Burm. 

 Zeylan. t. 48. Ehamnus acuminata, Colehr. in Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 615. 



Eastern and Western Peninsulas ; from the Concan and Tenasserim southwards. 

 Cevlon, north end of the Island.— Uistkib. Java, Borneo, Australia, S.W. Africa. 



Unarmed. Leaves 2 by 1 in., ovate, subacuminate, crenate-serrate, glabrous, mem- 

 branous, 3-nerved at the base, the midrib pinnately branched. Cymes J-^ in. long. 

 Flowers yellowish-green. 



2. C. pubescens, Kwrz in Joum. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, ii 301 ; branches 

 and flowers hispidly-pubescent, leaves li-2iby i-1 in. 



Pegu, Xurz. 



leaves ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate, hispidly-pubescent on both sides. Petflls 

 nearly seSsile, broadly oval, emarginate, very concave. Fruit ? 



