306 xxxm. rutacejE (oliver). [Zanthoxylum. 



Upper Guiaea. Cape Coast, T. Vogel ! (? Sierra Leone, Afzelius.) 



5. Z. Leprieurii, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 141. Branches rigid, 

 terete, prickly. Leaves 13-15-foliolate, glabrous ; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, narrowed to the base, denticulate, shining above, paler beneath, 

 sessile, 1-2 in. long, 4-6 lines broad ; common petiole 5-8 in., aculeate. 

 Flowers (female only known) small, in terminal spicate racemes. Sepals 5, 

 minute, roundish. Petals 5, much longer than the sepals, ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, subemarginate, reflexed. Ovary 1-2-ovulate, ovoid-oblong. Style 

 lateral, incurved. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur. 



Zanthoxylum Leprieurii I have failed to identify amongst our collections. It was de- 

 scribed from incomplete specimens with pistillate flowers only, so that possibly Z. rubescens, 

 to which it is evidently nearly allied, may prove to be the same, though differing apparently 

 in the symmetry of the flowers. 



The " Zanthoxylum ?" referred to in Fl. Nigrit. 271, from Cape Palmas (Ansell) is im- 

 possible to identify and not worth describing. 



3. TODDALIA, Juss. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 300. 



Nearly as in Zanthoxylum. Plowers unisexual. Petals imbricate or val- 

 vate. Malefl. : Stamens 2, 4, 5, 8, or 10. Female fl. : Ovary 2-5 (-7)- 

 celled, rarely 1-celled, entire. Fruit fleshy or coriaceous, 2- or more celled. 

 — Shrubs, often scandent, with or without prickles. Leaves alternate, 3- 

 foliolate ; leaflets glandular-dotted. 



A small genus of the warmer regions of the Old World. 



Unarmed. Leaflets elliptic-oblong, acuminate. Panicles axillary and 



terminal. Stamens 4. Petals valvate. Ovary 1-celled . . . . \. T. nobilis. 



Unarmed. Leaflets elongate-oval. Panicles terminal. Stamens 8. 



Ovary normally 4-celled 2. T. lanceolata. 



Prickly. Leaflets oblanceolate or broadly oval, obtuse. Ovary 5-celled 3. T. ? sp. 



1. T. nobilis, Hook.f. in Gen. PI. i. 301. Glabrous with pale green, 

 terete, unarmed extremities. Leaflets rather coriaceous, elongate, oblong- 

 oval or oblanceolate-oval, acute, more or less acuminate, narrowed to the 

 base and shortly petiolulate, entire or obsoletely undulate-denticulate above, 

 5-6 in. long, 1-lf in. broad, on petioles 1-2 in. Male flowers 4-merous, 

 sessile, subglomerulate, minutely bracteolate, in axillary and terminal al- 

 ternately branching panicles shorter than the leaves. Calyx-lobes short, 

 broadly rounded, submucronulate. Petals oblong, imbricate, rather thick. 

 Stamens 4. Female flowers in axillary spikes shorter than the petioles. 

 Ovary 1-celled with a sessile, peltate, rounded, entire stigma.— Teclea nobilis, 

 Delile in Ann. Se. Nat. Ser. 2. xx. 90 ; Bich. Fl. Abyss. Atlas, t. 28. Jspi- 

 do&tigma acuminatum, Hochst. in Flora 1844 18. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, in deep, narrow, alpine valleys, Schimper ! 



A plant nearly allied to the above, with short axillary panicles of male flowers only, is 

 in the Kew Herbarium from the Sugarloaf mountain, Sierra Leone (Barter). It is probably 

 distinct, but insufficient for description. 



