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Indian species, lilac, i-iin. diara., umbellate on the branches 

 of the cyme ; pedicels slender, longer than the petals. Sepals 

 4, small, obtuse. Petals 4, obtuse, imbricate. Ripe carpels 2-4, 

 of the size of a pea, tuberculated, hardly beaked. Seeds black. 

 Use : — See Z. alatum above. 



225. Z. Hamiltonianwin, Wall., h.f.b.l, i. 494. 



Vern. : — Purpuray timur (Nepal). 

 Habitat: — Sikkim, Assam and Burma. 



A climbing thorny shrub. Bark dark grey, with white len- 

 ticels, armed with short recurved prickles on a thick, nearly 

 cylindrical corky base, often fin. high. Wood yellowish 

 white, soft. Pores fine, not numerous. Medullary rays fine 

 to moderately broad, numerous, nearly equidistant (Gamble). 

 Leaves 6-8in., common petiole not winged, terete, stout, very 

 prickly ; leaflets sub-sessile, suddenly narrowed into a broad 

 notched apex, base rounded, glossy on both surfaces, glabrous 

 or pubescent beneath, with many sub-parallel prominent arch- 

 ing nerves. Cymes 3-4in., panicled, imbricate. Panicles or 

 clusters of flowers axillary, ramifications alternate. Sepals 4. 

 Petals as many. Flowers green. Stamens 4, hypogynous. 

 Ovary 1-celled ; stigma capitate. Fruit globose, of 1-seeded 

 carpel. Seed shining black ; embryo in a fleshy albumen, 

 radicle short, cotyledons flat. 



Use : — The fruit employed medicinally like that of Z. 

 alatum. 



226. Z. Bhetsa. D. C, h.f.b.l, i. 495. 



Syn. : — Fagara Rhetsa, Roxb. 140. 



Vern. :— Tessul, Koklee, chirphal, triphal (Bomb, and Goa). 

 Vengurla. Rhetsa manm (Tel.) ; Jummina, jisumi-mara (Kan.). 

 Katu Kina (Sinhalese). 



Habitat :— Western Peninsula, from Coromandel and the 

 Concan southward. Occasionally cultivated in Ceylon. 



A large tree. " Bark cream-coloured, with thick cork 

 in irregular masses, studded with conical spines, about 2in. 

 long, and the same; in base diameter. Wood yellowish grey, 

 moderately hard, close-grained. Pores small, rather scanty, 



