Zantlioxylum RUTACE.K 17~> 



glabrous; bracts '5-1 mm. 1., ciliolulate. Sepals 4, of male flower about 

 1 mm. 1., sligbtly imbricate at the base; of female flowers imbricate, 

 shorter, roundish, the outer broader than long. Petals 4, of male flowers 

 about 3 mm. 1., oblong-elliptical; of female flowers about 2 mm. 1., 

 elliptical. Stamens 4, in male flower slightly longer than the petals, 

 wanting in female flowers or staminodes developed. Pistil of male flower 

 rather shorter than the petals, sterile. Coccus 5-7 mm. 1., subglobular, 

 outer surface wrinkled, with or without brown glandular dots ; endocarp 

 at length free, and dropping out with the seed. Seed 3-4 mm. in diam., 

 subglobular. 



5. Z. Fagara Sarg. in Gard. & Forest id. 186 (1890) cV Sih: L 

 73, t. 32 ; leaflets obovate to roundish or sometimes elliptical, 

 margin slightly wavy, 1-2 5(-3 5) cm. 1. ; inflorescence in spike- 

 like racemes, solitary or 2-3 in the axils, or sometimes forming 

 a sort of head ; carpels 2; cocci 1 or 2. P. Wils. torn. cit. 100. 

 Z. Pterota H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. d- % vi 3 (1823); I)(\ 

 Prodr. i. 725 ; Nutt. Sylv. in. 11, f. 84. Lauro affinis Jasmini Arc. 

 Sloane Cat. 137 & Hist, ii 25, t. 162, /. 1. Pterota sub- 

 spinosa ttc. Browne Hist. Jam. 146, /. 5, /. 1. Schinus Fagara 

 L. Sp. PI. 389 (1753). Fagara Pterota L. Syst. ed. 10, 897 

 (1759) ; Amoen. v. 393 & Sp. PL ed. 2, 172 ; Descourt. Fl Ant. v!i. 

 t. 455 ; Url>. in Engl. Jalirb. xxi. 575. F. lentiscifolia Humb. & 

 Bonpl. ex Willd. Emm. i 165 (1809); Grisel. Fl. Br. W. In<l. 

 137. F. microphylla Grisel. loc. cit. (1859) (as regards the 

 Jamaican specimen). The type of Scliimts Fagara L. is in Herb. 

 Sloane. Fagara Pterota L. is based on a specimen from Browne ; 

 a specimen from Browne so named in Solander's hand is in 

 Herb. Linn. 



Saven Tree, Bastard Ironwood. 



Sloane Herb. v. 87 ! Browne ! Wright ! Shakspcar I J.P. 1074, Morris ! 

 near Kingston on sea-shore, Fawcett ! Liguauea Plain, 600-800 ft. ; near 

 Bull Bay, 200 ft. ; Long Mountain, west and south, 800-50 ft., Harris ! 

 Fl. Jam. 5678, 6732, 6733, 8373, 8384, 8388, 8841, 9579. Bahamas, Cuba, 

 Hispaniola, Trinidad, tropical and subtropical continental America. 



Shrub or tree, 6-30 ft. high ; trees more or less armed, trunk with 

 corky conical knobs w r ith an apical spine, branches sometimes with slightly 

 recurved prickles in the place of stipules. Leaves 4-8 cm. L, with the 

 rhachis and usually also the petiole narrowly winged; leaflets 7-9(-ll), 

 somewhat equal-sided or occasionally unequal-sided, apex rounded, gene- 

 rally emarginate. pellucid dots absent except sometimes a few marginal. 

 Inflorescence '7-2 cm. 1. ; bracts persistent, about '5 mm. 1. Fhii\rs : 

 male and female on separate plants. <S'^w/.s slightly imbricate at base in 

 bud, of male flower somewhat square with a triangular apex, about 

 1 mm. 1., of female about '7 mm. 1. Petals of male flower about 3 mm. 1., 

 oblong or oblong-obovate. Stamens longer than the petals. Pistil in 

 male flowers about half as long as petals, sterile ; in female flowers on a 

 gynophore braii'-hin^ above into the stalks of tin 1 two carpels. Cocci 

 about 3 mm. 1., subglobular, with minute glandular dots; endocarp at 

 length free. <&Vr</ i^-5-3 mm. 1. and thick. 



The heartwood is brown tinged with red. with a thin yellowish sapwood. 

 The wood is hard and very close-grained. Weight about 46 Ibs. per cubic 

 foot of the dry wood. 



