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Toddalia.] xxxiii. rutace^. (J. D. Hooker.) 407 



/ . 9. TODDAZ.ZA, Juss. 



. J^^^^^V subscandent or sarmentose prickly shrubs. Leaves alternate, 

 1 3-toliolate ; leaflets sessile. Flower's small, in axillary or terminal cymes 

 or paiucles, unisexual. Cali/x short, 2-5-lobed or -parted. Fetals 2-5, im- 

 bricate or vajvate. Stamens 2, 4, 5 (or 8 with the alternate imperfect), 

 imperfect or in tha ? flower, inserted at the base of a short or long or in- 

 conspicuous disk. Ovary ovoid oblong or globose, rudimentary or 4-lobed 

 la the ^ flower, 2-7-(rarely 1-) celled; style short or 0. stigma capitate; 

 ovules 2, superposed or collateral in each cell. Fruit subglobose, or lobec], 

 ^'naceousor fleshy, 2-7-celled; cells 1- rarely 2-seeded. Seech angled, reni- 

 j.'^j.^^sta coriaceous, albumen fleshy ; embryo curved, terete, cotyledons 

 l^ear or oblong.— Distrib. About 8 species, natives of tropical and sub- 

 wopical Asia, Africa and Australia. 



ft^i' '^' *°^^®***» P^^'S- ; DC. Prodr. ii. 83 ; prickly, leaflets sessile elliptic 

 ,^^*te oblong or lanceolate crenulate, fruit 3-7-celled. W. & A. Prodr . 

 H9; Thwaites Enum. 69; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 37; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 rtor 46; Wight lU. t. 66; Wall. C'oi. 904-2; Bedd.Flor. Sylvat. Anal. Gen. 

 xm. t. VI. f 4. X. asiatica, Lamk Diet. vii. 693 ; III. ii. 116. T. iiitida. Lawk, 

 fnj ^^^' ^- 1- ^ T. angustifolia, Lamk Diet. I.e. 694. T. an grist i folia, Mn^. 

 w llAint. Uohen. 470. T. rubricaulis, Willd. T. tioribuuda. Wall. PI. Ag. 

 ^^•/"•P- 37. Zanthoxylon nitidura, Wall. Cat. 1207, from China {not of 

 "y-)' Z. floribundum, Wall. Cat. 1206; PI. As. Ear. iii. t. 232. Scopulia 

 cuieata, Sm.. Ic. ined. sub t. 34 ; Roxb. PL Ind. i. 616. Limonia oligandra, 

 jT^- ^n Kew Journ. Bot. ii. 258. Paullinia asiatica, Linn. Sp. Pi 524.— 

 -^^m. Flor. Zeyl. 58, t. 24 ; liJieede Uort. Jfal. v. 81, t. 41. 



Kh ^^^iir^"^^ Himalaya, from Knmaon eastwards to Bliotan, ascending to 5000 ft. ; 

 Qivi^^ ' ascending to 6000 tt., and throughout the Western Peninsula and 



^^^'TTpiSTRiB. Sumatra, Java, China, the Philippine Islands. . 

 b^ ■^"^P"'^g sarmentoise shrnb, pricklj or not. Leaflets sessile, 1-3 hy J-1 in., gla- 

 uj _*- ^^^^^^d, narrowed or subacute at the tip, which is acute obtuse or notched, 

 Or/'^^^^^A g^eeu on both surfaces, coriaceous. Ct/nies axillary, compressed, longer 

 law r ^^^ leaves. Flowers I in. diara., white. Calj/x glandular. Petals 5, 



sticrm Jfl .^^^^■^'^ not exceeding the petals. Ovary usually 5-celled ; stvle short, 

 ^5-^ J *' ovules 2, superposed in each cell Fruit globose, size of a large pea, 

 grooved, orange-coloured, 3-5-celled. Seeds soHtary in each cell.— Whole plant hot 



*"«pnngeat. 



ceSat*' ^^^octtlaris, W. <(.• A. Pfodr. 149 ; unarmed, leaflets elliptic-lan- 

 hM ^^'^^inate quite entire, tip notched, flowers 2-3-inerous, fruit 2-cc]le(I. 

 •hut t''- ''''^^''^''- xliii- ; Scones, t. 167. Dipetalum biloculare, Dalz. m Kew 



Wd?'*''^^^-^'^''*^^^ ; Conrtalltim, Wiglit ; Anamallay forests, alt. 2500-3000 ft., 



A trI;T> ,"*=''" '^"J Canara, Dalzell. . r ^ 



6-10 J k^^Wome), trunk often 3 ft. in girtb, foliage dense, alwavs unarmed. LenflfJit 

 2-3 'Xui ^^ Pe'io'ed, nerved as in the otlier species, apparently quite entire. I'ttals 

 W'twl ^^^.'"^^'-icate. Sfqma large, peltate. FruU as large as a cberiy.— I have se.n 

 I^imnl ^P^'^'^ens, both Wight's, and m fruit only. I follow Dalzell m considering his 

 the Stan!'"* ^"^ ^^ t'le same ; he seems to have found it in a very early state, and says 

 specimen "* ^'"■« «. and inflorescence terminal, which latter is not the case m Wight s 

 upptrav-l' ^^^^orae, however, describes the inflorescence as terminal or Irpm the 

 leautlfui r ^^^ """^'^ shorter than the petiole. Beddome further descnbes it as a 

 in ilar'w ^f considerable size, with dense dark-green foliage; he f.und the lemales 

 JpetalAH ' "* ^^^ tlie males ; 3-petaled flowers were much more common than 



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