. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 174 XXXV. EHAJ\i]SrACEiE [Srif/erefia dentate, ^~1 in. long, sec. n. 2-4 pair. Fl. panicles terminal and axillary. Fr. black when ripe, sweet, sold in bazaars. Sincl, Snlaiman range Salt range. ISTortli-Wfst Himalaya, Indns to Jlielum, ascending to 5,000 ft. Fl. and Fr. Jannary-May. Afghanistan, Ba'ncMstan, Persia, Arabia. Closely allied is 4. S. theezans, Brongn.; Collett Fl. Simla, fig. 80. Nortli-West Himalaya, Upper Bnima, China, Tonkin (Ha
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 174 XXXV. EHAJ\i]SrACEiE [Srif/erefia dentate, ^~1 in. long, sec. n. 2-4 pair. Fl. panicles terminal and axillary. Fr. black when ripe, sweet, sold in bazaars. Sincl, Snlaiman range Salt range. ISTortli-Wfst Himalaya, Indns to Jlielum, ascending to 5,000 ft. Fl. and Fr. Jannary-May. Afghanistan, Ba'ncMstan, Persia, Arabia. Closely allied is 4. S. theezans, Brongn.; Collett Fl. Simla, fig. 80. Nortli-West Himalaya, Upper Bnima, China, Tonkin (HanJcaht, Paiigi; Zartum, Bnassliir). L. larger, |-1^ in. long, perfectly glabrotis, both surfaces shining, lower pal Specimens of ^S'. Brandreiliiana^ with small but perfectly glabrous leaves, are known from Bind, Bahiohistan, Mnbcat and Arabia. Possibly this species should be tinited with ;S^. tJieezans. 6. SCUTIA, Comm.; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 640. Species about 8, tropics of both bemispberes. S. indica, Brongn.; Wight 111. t. 73.—Syn. ;S^. Eheediana^ Wight Ic. t. 1071. Vern. Chimat, Mar. A straggling, glabrous sbrnb, armed with small sharp, curved spines. L. coriaceous, shining, pale beneath, opposite or alternate, elliptic, ovate or obovate, entire or faintly crenate. Fl. yellowish-green, in axillary few-fid. umbels on short peduncles. Drupe nearly dry, J in. long, supported by the persistent concave calyx tube. Western Peninsula, both on dry hills in the Deccan, and along the G-hats of the Konkan, in Coorg and on the Nilgiris. Fl. Ceylon, dry country. Hovenia dulcis, Tliunb. (Chmmm, Chamba); Brandis F. Fl. 94. A tree, unarmed, indi- genous in China, cultivated in Kumaon, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Japan. L. alter- nate, deciduous, ovate, from an unequal-sided base, serrate, acuminate, 3 prominent basal nerves. The ramifications of the inflorescence swell into an irregularly and un- evenly oblong fleshy mass, variously bent, which is sweet and aiomatic, the fruit 3-c
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