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Tanthoxylum.] xxxiii. HUTACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 493 



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A shrub ?^ Leaflets Z-i: in., coriaceous, subsessile, petioles not armed. Cymes in 

 Blender panicles, quite glabrous. Flowers \-^ in. diam., 4-5-merou8. Petals valvnte. 

 nipe carpels solitary, the size of a pea, smooth.— Wight makes 2 species of this, which 



1 cannot distinguish except as varieties. The Khasian' and Assam specimens have 

 rather longer leaves than the Madras ones. 



^ Var. 1, ovalifolium; unarmed. Z. ovalifolium, Wight, Ic, 



-^ Var. 2. sepiarium ; armed with short straight prickles. Z. sepiarium, Wt. III. 



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' Leaves 5-co. foliolate. petiole winged, flowers apetaloiis. wood with a 

 oroad septate pith. - 



y^Z. alatum, Roxb, Fl Tnd. iii. 768; leaflets 2-6 pairs lanceolate 

 glabrous beneath, petiole and rachis usually broadly winged, nerves very 



ro- 77*^^^*'' fi^'^^^s i^ sparse panicles 2-6 inches long glabrous or pubescent. 

 ^m. Cat. 1209 in part; Brandis F<yr. Flor. 4.1 \ Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. Anal 

 t^^. xlii. Z. hostile, Wall Cat 1210, inpart. 



Hot valleys of the Subtropical Himalaya, ascending to 6000 ft. from Jamu to 

 fihotan ; KuAsiA Mxs., alt. 2-3000 ft. 



• V? ^^ small tree, with dense foliage and pungent aromatic taste and smell ; 

 Pnckles often vertically flattened on the trunk and branches, the older with a c<jrky 

 **w. Leaves IJ-y in. (in Khasia specimen) ; petiole glabrous, narrowly winged, >v!th 



stipular prickles at the base; leaflets |-4 in., narrow, usually elliptic-l.inceolaie, rarely 



yate, obtusely acuminate. Panicles loose, sparingly branched. Flowers l-\ in. 



lam. Calyx 6-8-lobed, lobes subacute. Stamens 6-S, Bipe carpels \-^ in. diam., 

 ^alljr solitary, laxly panicled, broadly ovoid, pale red, tubercled. — Young leaflets have 

 ^Q the costa prickly beneath, and usually few large scattered glands. The wood ifl 

 and used for tooth cleaning, and the carpels as a condiment. 



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^ S. Z. acanthopodium, DC. Prodr. IL 727; branchlets glabrous or 

 j^^^^*'^se, leaflets 2-6-pairs lanceolate, nerves distinct glabrous or more or 

 J pubescent beneath, petiole and rachis narrowly winged, cymes very short 



1^^ F^ ^^* loi^g pubescent. Z. hostile, Wall Cat 1210, and Z. alatum, 

 '^<Cat 1209, mjwrr^. 



7finA*l^^'^^-^® of the Subtropical Himalaita, from Kumaon to Sikkim, ascending to 

 '^^ *t. ; Khasia Mts., alt. 4-6000 ft. 



.^erj^ similar indeed to Z. alatum, and possibly a variety of that plant, but the leafletiJ 

 •j J® '^^T®'' ^^^ ^^^g® scattered glands, and are olten very pubescent beneath, the nerves 

 dia w ^^/^iiger, and the inflorescence is remarkably different, the ripe carpels (J in. 

 lea™ ^*^)?"*"g dense sessile and almost globose clusters on the branches below the 

 »itW ^ • planispinum, Sieb. and Zucc, of Japan, is probably another variety, 



in lewer glabrous leaflets, faint nerves, and glabrous inflorescence ; it is intermediate 

 aZT"^ !j^i8 and Z, alatum, to which it is most nearly allied, but wants the large 



2 T'f ^^^'^^t in his catalogue quotes Z, acanthopodium, DC, as a synonym of 



zr.tf'r^' Roxb., and the ticket is attached to a specimen with very short cymes and 

 n.I r points, and with leaves nubescent beneath. I therefore retain De Caudolle's 



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leaves ^-cc^foliolate, petiole not mngedy flowers poly petdous. 



anJ o** *®"aentelluxn, Hook /. ; sparingty" prickly, 'branches petioles 

 cym?^e« velvety, leaflets alternate 6-8 pairs quite entire velvety beneath, 

 '"^axillary. 



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