AuouBT 18, 1913] FocB ScoRJc OF Nkw Plants 1833 



Zanthoxjfum iwahiffense Elm. ii. sp. 



Scandent shrub and widely sprawling in habit; stem 1 

 dm. thick, terete; bark brown, obscurely checked, yellowish 

 except the surface; wood rather hard, also yellow, finely 

 grained, that in the twigs possesses a sweet sharp turpentine 

 odor; the main branches provided with stout spines as are 

 also the glabrous twigs. Leaves ascending and frequently 

 recurved, well scattered alternatingly, 1 to 1.5 dm. long, 

 odd pinnate, leaflet bearing from near the base; rachis pale 

 green, glabrous, slightly winged along the upper caniculate 

 side, the petiole proper only 1 cm. long and at the base 

 provided on each side with a sharply pointed yellowish brown 

 shining only slightly recurved spine; leaflets 5 to 7 pairs, flat, 

 shining dark green above, much lighter beneath even in the 

 dry state, unequally brown when dry, the entire or minutely 

 crenate margins curved upon the nether surface, elliptic toward 

 the base, the slightly larger terminal ones ovately elliptic or 

 elongated, the basal portion frequently inequilateral, obtusely 

 rounded and minutely emarginate at apex, broadly rotinded at 

 the base or the oblique ones broadly obtuse, the larger ones 5 

 cm. long by 2 cm. wide below the middle, the basal ie.ifltt 

 frequently only one half as large; midrib raised beneath, 

 deeply caniculate above; lateral nerves 5 to 7 on each side, 

 divaricate, very faint, tips united, reticulations none. Inflores- 

 cence ascendingly spreading, green and glabrous and terminal 

 and usually upon few to several i>eduncle8; stalks 3 to 5 cm. 

 long, nearly twice as long in the fruiting stage, strict, glabrous, 

 winged umbellately branched: the fruiting branches very un- 

 equal in length, also straight and angular, the longer 3 cm. in 

 length, flower bearing toward the distal ends; buds cinereous, 

 1.5 m. long, rugose, the 5 sepals greenish, very short and thick, 

 the 5 alternating petals 3 times as long and whitish; anthers 

 not detected; ovary with black hood-like sessile stigmas I mm. 

 long, 2-lobed, glabrous, obscurely compressed, 2 celled. Fruits 

 atropurpureus, subgiobose, creased and bi-carpellary, sessile or 

 upon short unequally long pedicels, 3 to 5 mm. in diameter, 

 generally with 2 shining black meanderingly marked seeds. 



Type specimen number 12751, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 

 Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 



