ZizTPHUs.] BRAMNEM. 163 



tract from the Jumna to^ Nepal ; also in Bengal, C. India, W. Ghats, 

 Bhutan aud Burma, extending to Java I follow Sir George King in re- 

 garding F, calyculata as merely a variety of V. mad era spat in a of Gaertn. 

 The type, which is not found in N. India, has more slender and almost 

 glabrous panicles, and the wing is attached to the base of the fruit. 



2. ZIZYPHUS. Juss. ; Fl. Brit. Indc 5. 632. 



Trees or shrabs, often decumbent or sarmentose aud usually armed 

 with sharp 8tr9ight or hooked prickles (stipules). Leaves sub- 

 bifarious, alternate, usually coriaceous. Flowers fascicled, or in 

 sessile or peduneled eymes. Calyx 5-fid.; lobes spreading, keeled 

 within, tube broadly obconical. Petals 5, rarely 0, eucuUate, de- 

 flexed. Dish 5-10-lobed, margin free. Stamens 5. Ovary sunk in 

 the disk and confluent with it at the base, 2-4-celled ; styles 2-4, 

 free or more or less united. Fruit fleshy or dry, with a hard 1-4- 

 celled 1-4-seeded stone. /S'ee c«! plano-convex ; albumen 0, or very 

 scanty. — Species abont 40, found in tropical Asia and America, and 

 in the temperate regions of both hemispheres. 



Drupe fleshy, stone 1-2-celled. 

 Cymes axillary, nearly sessile, petals 5. 

 A moderate-sized tree or a shrub, drupe 



|-f in. or longer I. Z. Jujuha, 



A small thorny tomentose bush; drupe 

 globose, i - f in, in diam . • . 2, Z. rotundifolia. 



A straggling or climbing shrub, drupe J 

 in. long 3. Z. (EnojpUa. 



Cymes compound, axillary and terminal, on 

 long peduncles, petals . . . . 4. Z. rugosa. 



Drupe nearly dry, stone 3-celled ; cymes simple, 



axillary, on short peduncles, petals 4-5. . 5. Z. Xylopyrus. 



1. Z. Jujuba, Lamh. Encxjc. m, 318 ; Boxh. Fl. Ind. % 611 ; W' ^ A. 

 Trod. 162; Boyle III. 168; D. ^ O. Booih. Fl. 49; Brand. For Fl. 86. t. 

 XVII ; F. B. I. i, 632 ; DC. L'Orig. PI. Cult. 156 ; Watt E, D. Vern. Ber- 

 beri. (Indian Jujube)* 



A shrub or moderate-sized tree, almost evergreen, usually armed. Young 

 branches and flowers densely tomentose. Leaves variable, 1-4 in. long, ovate, 

 ovate-oblong or sub-orbicular, obtuse or acute, entire or serrulate, dark 

 green and glabrous above, clothed beneath with dense pale-colonred tomen- 

 tum. Pricldes solitary and straight, or in pairs with one of them shorter 

 and recurved, rarely wanting. Floioers greenish-yellow somewhat f getid, ar- 

 ranged in short axillary subsessile cymes. Calyx glabrous within. Petals 

 clawed, with an oblong hooded lamina. D(s/i IC-lobed. Ovarii 2-celled; 

 styles 2, connate to the middle. Drupe i to | in. or longer, globose oblong 



