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A small erect tree, 30 ft., with horizontal branches ; branchlets terete, stout, woody: 

 prickles scattered, short, recui-ved. Leaves 8-12 in. ; petiole terete, with scattered 

 hooked prickles on the under-side ; leaflets 2-3 in., shortly petioled, ohlong or. elliptic, 

 subacute or obtusely acuminate, coriaceous, glossy above, base subequal, nerves di^ 

 tinct. Cymes 2-4 in., sparingly brunched, densely velvety, branches few short m 

 rachis stout; bracts and bracteoles caducous. Flowers (9 only seen) small, clustered, 

 about i in. diam. Sepals 4, pubescent. Petals glabrous. Carpels 4, glabrous. 

 Carpels (hardly ripe) f in. long, 4, compressed, beaked. ^ , 



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5. Z. oxyphyllum, Udgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 42; glabroiis 

 prickles Looked, leaflets alternate and opposite 3-10 pairs, young crenat^ 

 cymes terminal and axillary quite glabrous or slightly pubescent, flowers 

 large. — Zanthoxylon violaceum, Wall. Cat. 1213. ;i'^. 



• Temperate and subtropical Himalaya, from Garwhal, alt. 4-8000 ft., to Siktim, 

 alt. 6-9000 ft., and Bhotan; Khasia Mts., alt. 4-6000 ft. ^ , ^-Sq ,'n • 



A shrub, clothed with hooked prickles. Leaves very variable ip size, 4-u i m 

 reticle arched, usually very prickly along the back ; leaflets in youug specimens ovaw^ 

 lanceolate, very long-acuminate, crenate-serrate, pale, nerves very distinct heneai, 

 older ones more elliptic or oblong, 2-2 J in. long in Kumaon specimens, upwards oi • 

 in some Sikkim ones, coriaceous, shining above. Cymes much branched ma * 

 flowered. Flowers the largest of the Indian species, J-^ in. diam., umbellate, oii^^^^^ 

 branches of the cyme ; pedicels slender, longer than the petals. ^*<? , i ^"y 

 obtuse. Petals 4, obtuse, imbricate Bipe carpels 2-4, the size of a pea, tuDercie , 

 hardly beaked. Seed black. ^ ■ ' ' '. ,* ' ' 



6. Z. khasianum, ffookf. ; branches petioles and inflorescence pubes- 

 cent, leaflets 8-10 pairs alternate rarely opposite small 9^^^^jj^ ^ ^d 

 obliquely curved narrowed obtuse apex quite glabrous, cymes asulary 



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Khasia Mts. ; at Myrung, alt. 4-6000 ft., /. i>. K & T.T. - onanndy 



A small very fragrant climbing straijgHng bush. Branches very slender, ^V\^J^^ 



prickly. Leaves 1 ft. long, arched; petiole more or less pubescent, "**"^.^ y ^^jve 



prickly underneath ; leafiets 1-lf in., straight or oblique, coriaceous, snmin| .' 



♦iillv I nf fh^ Klnrlo no.ioll,. r.r^r...^X^.\ V„ *!,„ ° „*«^^4-«^ .,r^^v • Tiflrtial netlOleS i^\ _, 



though this agrees entirelv in habit, the curious form of the alternate P^*^*^^® ^tbc 

 leaflets, and in the paniculate cyme and fruit ; it differs in being very P"^^^.^rjj^^g ^ 



branches petiole and rachis of the leaf and cyme, and in the small less cona ^ ^^ 

 less shining leaves, that do not blacken in drying. -^■'■:^^:'^^- 



7. Z. KamUtonianum, Wall Cat. 7117 ; prickles few short, branchy 

 and petioles glabrous or more or less pubescent or velvety, ^^^ 

 4-7 in., 2-3 pairs, opposite glossy oblong not sinuate, cymes axillary . 

 lose o'r glabrous. ^. 



Assam, Jenkins; Sudyah and Birma, Griffith; Borybari, Hamilton (Feb. 18 ^^ 

 Probably a large scandent shrub ; branches stout, woody, prickles ^F*^'^*^^ " gj into 

 6-8 in.; petiole terete, stout, very prickly ; leaflets subsessile, 8"*^^^"v " y|^sc€»« 

 a broad notched apex, base rounded, glossy on both surfaces, glabrous or P _;^|gd^ 

 beneath, with many subparallel prominent arcliing nerves. Cymes 3-^ ^.^*' slightlj 

 very slender. -P/ou^m ^V 5n- diam., shortly pedicelled. PefaZ* 4-5, valvateor^ o 



imbricate. — Perhaps a form of Z. tetraspermum, r . tAqe ---Assani. 



Vab. tamentosum; branches, petioles, and inflorescence very tomentps . 

 Jenkins, 





..i- »• tetraspermum, W. & A. Prodr. 148 ; v^i^r prictlj,^^^^^ 

 except the velvety cymes, leaflets 3-5 in. opposite 2-3 paira large cx^r 





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