Vepris.] - XANTHOXYLEZ. 447 
pistil. @: abortive stamens very short. Ovary shortly stipitate, ovoid, 
4-5 celled ; stigma sub-sessile, petals 4-5, lobed. Fruit fleshy, dotted, 
2-5 celled; cells one-seeded, some often abortive. W. 6A. Fl. Penins. 
p. 149. Endl. Gen. No. 
Shrubs or small trees, natives of Bourbon, Mauritius, and South Africa. Leaves 
alternate, exstipulate, trifoliolate, pellucid-dotted ; leaflets entire, glabrous, netted- 
veined and glossy. Flowers small, in axillary or terminal racemes, spikes or pani- 
cles. Kaki-Toddali is the Malabar name of 7’. aculeata. 
T. natalensis (Sond.); unarmed ; leaves digitately trifoliolate (some- 
times uni- or bi-foliolate) on sub-terete petioles; leaflets petiolate, lan- 
ceolate or oblongo-lanceolate, tapering to base and apex, glossy, netted- 
veined ; spikes (of male flowers) axillary, about equalling the petiole, 
few flowered, simple or slightly branched; flowers sessile, quadrifid. 
Has. Port Natal, Gueinzius! No, 67 & 650. Frontier of Albany, Mrs. F. W. 
Barber! (Herb. Sond., T.C.D.) ec EES 
A glabrous shrub much resembling Vepris lanceolata, but with a different inflores- 
cence and flowers of diverse structure, petiolulate leaflets, &c. Bark cinereous, 
Petioles 1-14 inch long, nearly terete. Leaflets usually 3, sometimes but 2 or 1, 
3-5 inches long, 1-24 inches broad, tapering at base into distinct petiolules 1-3 lines 
long, more or less acuminate, closely netted and multi-punctate. Peduncles 3-1 
inch long, simple or slightly branched, bearing 4-8 or more sessile flowers. Calyx 
sub-urceolate, 4-crenate. Petals 4, thrice as long as the calyx, oblong, spreading, 
round-backed, concave above, obtuse. Stamens about as long as the petals. Abor- 
tive ovary 4-angled. Female flowers unknown. 
III. VEPRIS, Commers. 
Flowers unisexual. Calyx short, 4—parted. Petals 4, much longer 
than the calyx, twisted-imbricate in xstivation. ¢: stamens 8; 4, 
Opposite the petals shorter, inserted round the base of the gynophore, ~ 
which bears a rudimentary 3-4 angled pistil. 9: ovary shortly stipi- 
tate, sub-globose, fleshy, 4—celled; stigma sessile, peltate. Fruit fleshy, 
4 (or 3) celled and furrowed; cells one-seeded, some often abortive. 
Walk-Arn. in Hook. Journ, Bot. 3, p. 154. Endl. Gen. ee pts 
Shrubs or small trees, natives of the Mauritius, Bourbon, an 30U ca. 
ifoli : i rous, with netted veins, pellucid- 
See a i ae ot oe ee ee = 
ramble, : 
1. V. lanceolata (A. Juss,) unarmed, glabrous; leaves digitately tri- 
foliolate, the worse lanceo. acute or obtuse, undulate, sessile, 
cuneate at base; panicle terminal, much branched. Boscia by age 
Thunb. Cap. p. 1 59, H.§ Z.1 No. 1149. Asaphes undulata, DC. 
2.p.90. Toddaira lanceolata, Lamk. Ill. n. 2760, DC. Prod. 2. p. 83. 
closely reticulate, and multi-punctate, 2-24 inches long, 810 lines wide, very entire, 
Senate, wh is shrub 
4-1 -Té correctly referred to V. lanceolata, Juss., this shr 
ys tag Obed, gland-dotted. : 
