. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. L70 XXXY. EHAMNACEiE [Zizyplius. Fig. 78.—Zizypliiis niimmxi- laria, W. & A. \. Himalaya to 4,500 ft. Grown in gardens for its fruit. Tlie young foliage appearb in Marclij April, while the old leaves are shedding, sometimes a second flush, in July and August, JFl. usually April-Sept. Fr. A remarkable form is Edge- worth's var. hymdrica, commonly culti- vated in the Punjab. L. obtuse, often orbicular, glabrous or slightly pubesc
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. L70 XXXY. EHAMNACEiE [Zizyplius. Fig. 78.—Zizypliiis niimmxi- laria, W. & A. \. Himalaya to 4,500 ft. Grown in gardens for its fruit. Tlie young foliage appearb in Marclij April, while the old leaves are shedding, sometimes a second flush, in July and August, JFl. usually April-Sept. Fr. A remarkable form is Edge- worth's var. hymdrica, commonly culti- vated in the Punjab. L. obtuse, often orbicular, glabrous or slightly pubescent beneath, the branches not drooping, but erect or spreading. A shrubby form of this species, not gre- garious, by |-1J in., fr. globose, yellow or reddish I in cliam., is in Smghboom (Haines). 2. Z. nummularia, W. et i. 162 (1834); * Brandis F. PL 88. Vera. Jangra^ Sind : Karkan^ Trans. Indus; Bal^ Malla, Kokan her, Pb.; Blior,J7mI Bhor^ Ajmere; Paragi, Kan. A thorny shrub. Branches fiexuose, divaricate at right angles, young shoots, underside of leaves and inflorescence grey-pubescent, spines slender, pilose when young, uneq[ual, one slender ^~| in, the other much shorter, hooked, bent downwards. L. elliptic or orbicular, |-1 in. long. Cymes sessile. Drupes globose, edible, -J- in. diam., stone rugose, shell hard, bony. Sind and Baluchistan. Dry region of North-Western India and the Deccan, south to the dry country near Cape Comorin. Gregarious, often covering extensive tracts with irregular rounded thorny masses of shrub. The old leaves shed early in the hot weather, and the fresli leaves appear immediately afterwards. PL March-June. Pr. 3. Z. Oenoplia, Mill.; Brandis F. PI. 86.—Syn. Z, Napeca, Eoxb. Vera. Makolu Sahar.; 2£akai, Oudh; Makor^ Mar.; Yeruni, Chanda; Kontai Kolij Uriya ; Paraki, Tel. A scrambling often climbing shrub, jDrickles short, sharp, often solitary. Branchlets, imderside of leaves and inflorescence clothed with den
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