ZI'ZYPHUS PALIU'RUS. 
CHRIST’S THORN. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RHAMNEJE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
S. of Europe 
8 feet. 
June, July. 
Perennial. 
in 1596. 
No. 118. 
The origin of the term Zizyphus has been referred 
to words of a similar construction in several eastern 
languages, but with no degree of certainty ; and the 
derivation of Paliurus is equally obscure. 
This plant, by different authors, has been ranked 
in the genera Paliurus, Rhamnus, and Zizyphus; and 
now is again divided from the latter genus, and 
forms a new one under the title Paliurus Australis, 
a name first adopted by Gsertner. On the authority 
of the Hortus Kewensis, Botanical Magazine, and 
general usuage, we retain it as Zizyphus paliurus. 
It is indigenous to all the country of Judea, as 
well as the southern parts of Europe; and is gene- 
rally supposed to have furnished the crown of thorns 
by which our Saviour was tormented and reviled ; 
and the pliability of its slender branches renders this 
by no means improbable ; though some have thought 
the prickly acanthus was employed. 
From the resemblance of its singular seed vessels 
to a head, and broad brimmed hat, the French call it 
porte chapeau. 
It may be propagated from cuttings; or from seeds, 
obtained from abroad. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v.2, 18. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
