N. O. RtlTAOFJE. 
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Indian species, lilac, f-fin. diam., 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. Hamiltonianum, Wall., h.f.b.i., 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 I-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. Rhetsa. D. C., h.f.b.i., i. 495 . 
Syn. : — Fagara Rhetsa, Roxb. 140. 
Vern. : — Tessul, Koklee, chirphal, triphal (Bomb, and Goa). 
Vengrlrla. 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, 
