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Zanthoxylum] xxxiii. hutace^. (J. D. Hooker.) 495 



oblong very glossy coriaceous many-nerved margin waved and sinuate- 

 tootlied, cymes axillary and terminal. Thwaites Enum. 69 : Beddome Fhr. 

 ¥vat. Anal. Gen. xlii. 



^ Western Peninsula ; Kurg and the Nilghiri Mts., Ceylon, alt. 3-5000 ft., Walter. 

 A Btout climbing shrub; prickles short, hooked. Leaves 4-7 in,, glabrous; petiole 

 stout, straight, verj pricklj ; leaflets subsessile, suddeolj contracted to a rather long 

 obtuse notched tip, shining above and sinuate-toothed, especially in the Ceylon spe- 

 ^mens, coriaceous, nerves numerous spreading. Panicles 2-3 in., axillary and ter- 

 iDinal, short, or rather large and spreading, when terminal densely tomeutose, branches 

 ai^rnate. Flowers small, ^Vs i"- <^i^ni. Petals 4, acute, valvate. Eipe carpels 

 liiv^ *°' diam., globose. — Ceylon specimens have the brilliantly glossy leaves almost 



to^ Ir^*" ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^"^^ sinuate-toothed than the Kuig ones, which show a passage 

 w ^- Mamiltonianum, which has a very similar tip to the leaf. $ 



oECT. 2, Cymes terminal ; branches opposite. Flowers polypetalous. 

 ■^^^^~'^ -^^^loldiX^ \ petiole not winged. Wood with a broad septate pith. 



til *' ^'^®*^*» DG^ Prodr. i. 728 ; armed except the petioles and rarely 

 tne cymes with short prickles, leaflets 8-20 pairs very obliqiie quite entire 

 gjaorous, cymes terminal very large glabrous. W. & A, Prodr. 148 ; GraJu 

 ^f- ^omb. PI, 36 ; Dalz. d: Gihs. Bomb. FL 45 ; Thwaites Emim. 69 ; Bedd. 

 ^w hylvat. Anal Gen, xlL Z. oblongum, Wall Cat. 1218. Fagara Rhet«a, 

 ^./f Ind. i. 417. ? F. Budrunga, Eoxh, Fl Ind, I 417, not of Wallkh.— 

 Hhede Uort Mai. v. t. 34. 



'* A ^^^*^^^, Peninsula, from Coromandel and the Concan southward; Tavoy, Gomez. 

 A ,y^ ^'ith corky bark and spreading leafy branches, prickles straight or incurved, 

 JJ^J>Ia ones with a solid conic base. Leaves 1-1 4 ft., clustered at the ends of the 

 witll*^^^' ^*i"al[y or unequally pinnate; petiole unarmed; leaflets opposite, 3-5 in., 

 tmi) \^^ partial petioles, recurved, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, 

 aon^^ \\^ rounded, lower very narrow and ending in the costa, nerves 10-12 on the 

 jp^^^*J*i 2 fewer on the lower. Cqmes sometimes IJ ft. broad; branches opposite, 

 vahat "^a*^t8 minute, caducous. Flowers J in. diam., yellow, 4-merous. Petals 

 snbel K * ^^^^ glabrous. Ripe carpels solitary, the size of a pea, tubercled. Seed 

 pgp°-^®^ l>iwe-black. — The unripe carpels taste of orange-peel, the seeds like black 

 U^^ "^^liwaites introduces this into his Enumeratio, but says, in Herb, that he 

 ^^* but one tree, and that is in a garden. , _ , r . 



10- *. Sudrungra, Wall Cat, 1211 ; ]qf DC. Prodr. \. 728; armed with 



short ■ — "^*^**"5a» vvau. vat, izii ; ioj ujv. i rm 

 W ^^^^7^d prickles, leaflets 5-10 pairs glabrous 

 riahr ^^^^"^ ill the sinus, base very oblique, cyme 

 ^7?^«- Z. crenatum, Wall Cat. 1216. ? Fagara 



broadly crenate with 



cymes terminal very large 



Budrunga, RoxK Fl 

 417. 



fte kT^"*^ Himalaya, Kumaon, PUnkworth (in Herb. Wallich) ; Forests of Silhet, 

 • At^i?.*^'*,^^^' Chittaqoxg, and Martaban. 



%* "*^°) ^nil-TAQOXG, ana iVlARTABA«, 

 m% ^^•ently a tree, easily recognised by the large glands at the crenatures of the leaf- 

 feni^ri *^,not satisfied as to the name this plant should bear; the description is 



Aaaam 4P^n<iing to either Roxburgh's Fagara Bketsa or F. Budrunga m any Silbet, 

 racter ^^ ^^'^gal collection, and except in the fewer leaflets there is no differential cha- 

 '»*fipi.f ^^^L ^^' ^^^^rgh between these two supposed species, though m his drawmgs 

 fprofl, ® ® flowers of Budrunga as small, white, with stamens larger than the petals 

 shorter Yr* sexual character) ; and those of Rhetsa as larger, yellowish, with stamens 



^^an the petals. On the other hand, there are plenty of Western Fenmsula 





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