Berchemia] XXXV, RHAMNACEJE 161) 



2. BERCHEMIA, Necker; M. Brit. Ind. i. 637. 



Unarmed slirubs or woody climbers, stipules foliaceous, often intra-axillary. 

 L. alternate, sec. n. numerous, parallel, oblique. M. small, pentamerous, calyx 

 lobes linear or triangular, deciduous. Style simple, often short, stigma capitate, 

 lobed. Er. a 2-celled berry on the persistent calyx. Species : Eastern Asia, 8 ; 

 tropical Africa and ISTortli America 1 each. 



A. EL in terminal or axillary panicles, calyx tube only persistent. 



1. B. fioribunda, Wall.; Brandis P. M. 91. Vern. KauJai^ Jauns. 

 Amili^ Garhw. ; Chiaduk^ Nep. 



A large shrub or small tree, erect or climbing. L. ovate, acute or acuminate, 

 blade 2-3, petiole ^,-| in. El. clustered in larsje terminal panicles, pedicels 

 shorter thkiTcaly.. ^ lerry cylindrical, f-,^ in. lo1.g. 



Himalaya, Jlielum to Sikkim, ascending to 6,000 feet, Khasi hills Fl. June, July 

 (North- West), December (Sikkim) 2. B. flavesceas, Wall. Sikkini, Upper Burma. 

 Very similar. Fl in short teimmal axillary panicles, pedicels longer than flower. 



B. FL in small clusters. Fr. supported by entire calyx, 



3. B. lineata, DO. ; Brandis F. Fl. 91. Yern. Torhutei^ Pusht. ; Angaria 

 Jauns. 



A small shrub, stipules small. L, ^-1^ in. long. Fl. 2-4 together, either 



axillary or at the ends of branches. Berry blue, \ in. long. 



Trans-Indus and in tlie Himalaya to Bhutan, ascending to 10,000 ft. El. May-July. 

 4. B. EdgewortMi, Lawson: Deoban, Western Nepal, Very similar, supposed to differ 

 by longer stipules and less conspicuous secondary nerves, but probably not really 

 different. 



3. ZIZYPHUS, Juss. ; FL Brit. Ind. i. 032, 



Shrubs or trees. Medullary rays numerous, very fine. Generally armed with 

 stipular spines, which as a rule are unequal, one straight, the other curved. 

 L. alternate, more or less distichous, with 3, rarely 4 or 5, basal nerves. Fl. 

 small, pentamerous, mostly bisexual, generally in axillary cymes. Calyx cup- 

 shaped or broad-obconical, lobes keeled inside, petals sometimes wanting, disk 

 lining the calyx tube, edge free, pentagonous or 5~10-lobed. Ovary immersed 

 in disk, and more or less confluent with it, 2-celled, rarely 3- or 4-celled, styles 

 2-3, free or partly connate. Drupe as a rule fleshy, stone rugose or tuberculate, 

 1-3-celled, 1 seed in each cell, embryo in thin albumen, cotyledons thick, flat 

 or convex, radicle short, inferior. Species 40, mostly Indo-Malayan, a few in 

 Africa, America and Australia. 



A. Cymes axillary, sessile or shortly pedunculate. 



1. Z. Jujuba, Lam. ; Wight Ic. t. 22 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 149 : Brandis F. 

 FL t. 17. Yern. Ber, Hind. ; Bor, Mar. : Janumjan, Kol ; Yelandai, Tarn. ; 

 Ringa, Gond ; Eegto, Tel. ; JelacMj Kan. ; Ziben, Burm. 



A middle-sized tree. Branches drooping, armed with stipular spines, equal, 

 or one straight, the other bent, rarely entirely unarmed. Branchlets, petioles, 

 underside of leaves and inflorescence densely clothed with bright tawny or 

 nearly white tomentum. L. variable, from ovate-oblong to nearly orbicular, 

 obtuse or acute, entire or serrulate, blade f"-2|, petiole y\j-| in, long. FL 

 greenish -yellow in short axillary nearly sessile cymes, petals unguiculate, 

 lamina oblong, concave or hooded, disk fleshy, 10-lobed, styles 2, thick, connate 

 to middle. Drupes varying in size and shape, generally |-| m. long, orange 

 or red when ripe, stalk half the length of drupe, stone tuberculate, bony, 

 irregularly furrowed, mostly 2-celled. 



Indigenous and naturalized throughou.t India and Burma, ascending in tlie outer 



