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l\.Z. finenfis. Chinefe Jujube. Lamarck n. 3. Def- 

 font. Tabl. 231. — " Young brandies prickly, downy ; old 

 ones unarmed. Leaves ovate-oblong, (harply ferrated. 

 Petals reflexed under the calyx."— Cultivated in the public 

 parden at Paris, and faid to be a native of China. As this 

 is uncertain, how much better might *^- 



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the name of 

 cryplopetala have been chofen ! Lamarck defcribes the pre- 

 fent fpecies as !i Jlrub, only three or four feet high, lofing 

 its flender, unequal, briftle-like prickles as the branches ad- 

 vance in age. Leaves of a very pale green, crowded, three- 

 ribbed, rather fmallcr than thofe of Z. vulgaris hereafter 

 defcribed ; we prefume they are quite fmooth. Footjlalhs 

 (hort and downy. Flowers fmall, whitifh, axillary, folitary 

 or in pairs, remarkable for having \.he\v petals fo completely 

 reflexed, and concealed by the calyx, as not to be vifible 

 when we regard the flower vertically. Lamarch. 



12. Z. rotundtfolia. Round-leaved Jujube. Lamarck 

 n. 9. ( Jujuba, five Ziziphus, zeylanica rotundifolia crenata 

 minor, foliis fubtus lanuginofis ; Pluk. Phyt. t. 197. f. 2. 

 Burm. Zeyl. 132.) — " Prickles in pairs; one of them re- 

 curved. Leaves roundi(h-oval ; downy beneath." — Native 

 of Ceylon. Leaves fmall, perhaps hardly an inch long, 

 rather more rounded than in Plukenet's figure, flightly 

 toothed ; fmooth above ; cottony beneath ; on very (hort 



footjlalks. Branches flender, cylindrical. Prickles fmall. 

 An Indian fpecimen in the Linnaean herbarium, attached to 

 Z. Napeca, to which it certainly is very little related, agrees 

 in many points with this defcription of Lamarck, except 

 that the very fmall prickles are folitary, nor are the foot- 

 ftalks very fhort. We know not to what other fpecies of 

 Ziziphus to refer this fpecimen. It is marked Ber, and 

 faid to afford gum lac, which is coUefted from it by winged 

 infefts. 



13. Z. angulata. Angular-branched Jujube. Lamarck 

 n. 10. — " Prickles in pairs, ftraight. Leaves roundith-oval, 

 fomewhat toothed, fmooth on both fides. Branches acutely 

 angular." — Defcribed from the herbarium of Juflieu, with- 

 out fruftification. The angular branches ftrikingly diltin- 

 guilh this fpecies from all the reft. They are woody, 

 fmooth, zigzag, fquare, with prominent acute angles. 

 Leaves three-ribbed, an inch and a half broad, on fhort 



footjlalks. Lamarck. Nothing is recorded of the native 

 country of this plant. 



^..14. Z. vulgaris. Common Jujube. Willd. n. 9. 

 iharck n. i. Ait. n. 5. Sm. Fl. Graec. Sibth. t 

 (Z. ; Dod. Pempt. 807. Zizypha ; Camer. Epit 

 Rhamnus Zizyphus ; Linn. Sp. PI. 2 

 part 2. 24. t. 59. C. L. Willich Obf. 

 five Ziziphus Dodonsei ; Ger. Em. 

 pairs, unequal. Leaves 

 fmooth. Flowers 



La- 



241. 

 167. 

 \2. Pall. RoflT. V. 1. 

 5. Jujube Arabum, 

 IJOI.) — Prickles in 

 ovate, abrupt, bluntly ferrated, 

 axillary tufts. Fruit elliptical. — 

 Native of the fouth of Europe. Gathered by Dr. Sibthorp 

 about Megara, and on mount Parnaifus. It has been cul- 

 tivated in England ever fince Parkinfon's days, but requires 

 the fhelter of a green-houfe, and though it may fometimes 

 bloffom, never bears fruit. Pliny fays the Jujube-tree was 

 brought, in his time, from Syria into Italy. When wild it 

 attains the fize of a fmall tree, witli round, fmooth, glaucous 

 branches, zigiag and leafy when young. The prickles make 

 no appearance on the young leafy {hoots, but the following 

 year they become Itrong thorns, one of them an inch long, 

 the other much fliorter, and fometimes, not always, re- 

 curved, as WiUich well obferves. Leaves rather crowded, 

 deciduous, on fliort ftalks, ovate, fomewhat tapering into a 

 broad blunt point, frequently cmarginate ; their edges 

 copioufly though bluntly ferrated ; both furfaces fmooth ; 

 the under paler, ftrongly three-ribbed ; their length an inch 



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and a quarter or an inch and a half. Flomiers yellowifli, on 

 fhort ftalks, in little axillary tufts, not much longer than 

 the footftalks. Petals obtufe, half the length of the calyx. 

 Stigmas two or three. Drupa the fize and fhape of an olive, 

 blood-red, fweet, mucilaginous, efteemed good in forenefs 

 or inflammation of the mouth and throat, but are out of ufe 

 in our prefent praftice. If Pallas's plate above quoted be 

 the true Z. vulgaris, of wliich \vc cannot help feehng fome 

 doubt, a comparifon of that plate with the old wooden cut 

 of Camerarius, may ferve to (hew how fuperior the artifts 

 of thofe earlier times were to fome of our modern delineators 

 and colourers. 



15. Z. Spina Chrijli. Chrift's-thorn Jujube. Willd. 

 n. 10. (Z. africana ; Mill. Dift. ed. 8. n. 4. Rhamnu* 

 Spina Chrifti ; Linn. Sp. PI. 282. Oenoplia fpinofa; Cluf. 

 Hift. v. 2. 313. Nabca, Paliurus Athensei credita j Alpin 

 ^gypt. 16. t. 19. Jujube five Zizyphus africana, mucro- 

 natis foliis, fpina gemclla; Pluk. Almag. 199. Phyt. t. 197. 

 f. 3.) — Prickles in pairs, ftraight. Corymbs axillary, 

 ftalked, many-flowered. Leaves ovate, finely crenate, 

 fmooth on both fides. Fruit globofe. — Native of Ethiopia 

 and Paleftine. Seeds coUcfted near Jerufalem, by Haffel- 

 quift, produced the plant defcribed by Linnxus, a wild 

 fpecimen of which, fent alfo by Haffelquift, is preferved in 

 the Linnasan herbarium. Miller alfo raifed this fpecies 

 from Syrian feeds, fo that it is entitled to a place in Hort. 

 Kew. Refpefting Plukenet's fynonym, we feel no doubt. 

 The cut of Alpinus as much refembles Z. Napeca, n. 6, in 

 the foliage, but the globofe yruif agrees beft with the fpecies 

 before us. The prickles are hardly vifible on our fpecimen, 

 which is a young luxuriant leafy branch, in flower. They 

 perhaps acquire their full proportion on older branches, as 

 in Z. vulgaris, n. 14. T\\c Laves are fcattered, of a broad- 

 ovate, fomevi'hat roundifh, obtufe figure, two and a half or 

 three inches long, and two wide, ftrongly three-ribbed, with 

 tranfverfe veins, minutely and flightly crenate rather than 

 ferrated, very fmooth and even on both fides ; paler beneath. 

 Footjlalks fcarcely an inch long ; downy on their upper fide. 

 Corymbs forked, downy, many-flowered, each on a folitary 

 axillary ftalk, fliorter than the footjlali. BraSeas awl- 

 fhaped. In our only expanded ^oiii/^r, the fegments of the 

 calyx, as well as the petals znAJiamens, are ftrongly reflexed, 

 quite under the bafe of the calyx. The drupa is faid to be 

 the fize and fhape of a Sloe. 



ZIZITH, in the JewiJli Cujloms, a name given by the 

 Jews to the tufts or fringes they ufed anciently to wear at 

 the four quarters of their upper garments, but which they 

 now only wear under their clothes, fixed to a fquare piece 

 of cloth, which reprefents the garment they anciently wore 

 in their own country before their difperfion. The zizith 

 of the modern Jews is a tuft made of eight threads of yarn, 

 fpun on purpofe for this ufe, each having five knots, which 

 take up half the length. That which is not knotted, being 

 furled out, makes a kind of tuft or fringe. Numb. xv. 58. 

 Deuter. xxii. 12. Leo of Modena, Cerem. of the Jews, 

 part i. chap. 5. Calmet. Dift. Bibl. in voc. 



ZIZYPHA, in Botany. See Ziziphus. 



ZLABINGS, in Geography, a town of Moravia, in the 

 circle of Iglau ; 28 miles W. of Znaym. 



ZLATOUSTOVSKOI, a town of Ruflia, in the go- 

 vernment of Upha ; 60 miles W. of Tcheliabinfk. 



ZLEBY, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Czaflau ; 

 4 miles S.E. of Czaflau. 



ZLIN, a town of Moravia, in the circle of Hradifch ; 

 15 miles N.N.E. of Hradifch. 



ZLOTI, a money of account in Poland, where accounts 

 are kept in zloti, guldens, or florins of 30 grofchen or 



grofz, 



