446 XANTHOXYLE® (Harv.) [ Toddalia. — 
1, X. (Rhetza) capense (Harv.) ; branches armed ; petioles wnarmed, 
channelled ; leaves paripinnate, leaflets elliptical, obovate, ovate, or 
ovato-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, crenulate, sessile, sub-unequal at base ; 
panicles axillary and terminal, puberulous ; flowers 4 parted ; ovary 
single, ovoid ; style filiform, equalling the petals; stigmas capitate. Fa- 
gara capensis, Thunb. Fl. Cap.p. 141. E. & Z.1 No.921. Fagarastrum 
capense, Don.—Pappe, Fl. Med. p.8. Elaphrium capense, DC. Prod. 1. 
p» 724. Rhus obliqua, litt. c. E. Mey.! (non Thunb.) 
Has. In woods, in the districts of George, Uitenhage, and Albany, common ; also 
in Caffirland, and at Port Natal. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) 
A large, much branched shrub or small tree, the branches and twigs armed with 
sharp, strong, horizontal, solitary prickles, usually placed under the insertion of the 
petiole. . Leaflets in 4-5 pairs, opposite or alternate, 1-14 inch long, 2-6 lines wide, 
the lowest smallest, the rest gradually larger, very variable in shape, with a trans- 
lucent gland in each serrature, and sometimes sparsely pellucid dotted. Panicles 
many flowered, shorter than the petioles. Petals of the ¢ flowers oval, concave, 
very obtuse ; of the 2, ovato-lanceolate, sub-acute, keeled. 
_2. X. (Rhetza?) Thunbergii (DC, Prod. 1. p. 726); branches, pe- 
tiles, and nerves armed ; leaves paripinnate, leaflets elliptical, oblong, or 
ovato-lanceolate, obtuse, or acute, or acuminate, crenulate, sessile, sub- 
unequal. at base ; flowers and fruit unknown. Fagara armata, Thunb. 
Fi. Cap. p. 141. EL. § Z.1 922. 
Var, a. grandifolia ; lower leaflets elliptical or oblong, upper lanceo- 
late, acuminate, 2-3 inches Jong. 
: Var. 8. obtusifolia; leaflets elliptical or obovate, obtuse, }-# inch 
ong. 
Van. y. multijuga ; leaflets in 10-12 pairs, linear-oblong, 3 lines 
long, 14-2 lines wide, a rc nck le 
Has. Var. a, In woods near the Knysna, Bowie! Winterhoeks above Uiten- 
met ago e ; 8. Macallisberg, Burke and Zeyher. -. Traaréwelah Das (Gill) (Herb. 
ook., Sond. 
A ve imperfectly known species, and whether the three varieties here enume- 
rated, which agree in having prickly petioles, belong to one or more species, it is 
impossible to say. The flowers and fruit of none of them are known to me. 
3. X.?? alatum (Steud.); twigs wnarmed, virgate, glabrous and 
glossy ; petioles winged between the leaflets; leaves paripinnate, leaflets 
opposite, in 4-6 pairs, obovate, mucronulate, undulate, very entire ; 
flowers and fruit unknown. Fagara alata, E. & Z.! 923. 
aa, Tn parc reoon near Louisfontein, Clanwilliam, Z. 4 Z./ (Herb. Sond.) 
_ The genus of this plant is wholly uncertain. The petioles resemble those of Hip- 
pobromus alatus ; but ete oad glossy, and — brown, the leaflets qe 
brous, with prominent -rib, not conspicu r-veiny: they seem 
fully developed on E. & Z.’s specimens, . “te aad ee 
IL, TODDALIA, Juss. 
unisexual, - Calyx short, cup-like, 4-5 toothed or crenate. 
i= eo? much longer than the calyx, a ee sub-imbricate in 
eis fio ee stamens 4—5, equalling or exceeding the petals, inserted 
of the gynophore, which bears a rudimentary 4-5 angled 
