178 FLOKA OF JAMAICA Zantlioxylum 



10. Z. jamaieense P. Wils. in Torreya ix. 32 (1909) & in 

 N. Arner. FL av<r. j//. 3, 185; leaves with an odd leaflet; leaflets 

 elliptical to oblong-elliptical, apex usually shortly and abruptly 

 acuminate, rarely rounded, emarginate ; panicles terminal, corym- 

 bose ; carpels 3 ; cocci 2 or 1 with 1 or 2 aborted. 



Dolphin Head, Britton, 2310 ! hills near Kempshot, Britton, 2433. 



Tree 15-30 ft. high, trunk with corky spiny knobs at the base, branches 

 unarmed or with a few slender straight prickles. Leaves 12-20 cm. 1., 

 sometimes, with the rhachis and midrib of leaflet beneath, prickly ; leaflets 

 in 1-4 pairs, sessile or subsessile (but terminal long-stalked), 9-3 cm. 1., 

 margin slightly crenulate or entire, nerves and veins reticulate, prominu- 

 lous beneath, less so above, pellucid dots along the margin and very few 

 within. Male flowers (immature) : Sepals 3. Petals 3, ovate. Stamens 3. 

 Female flowers : Sepals 3, semicircular or broadly triangular. Petals 3, 

 ovate, 2-2 '2 mm. 1. Carpels distinct. Cocci globular, apiculate, surface 

 pitted, 4 mm. in diam. 



We have only seen a poor specimen, and have had to depend for the 

 most part on P. Wilson's description. 



11. Z. spinosum Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 574 (1797); leaves with 

 or without an odd leaflet; leaflets l'5-6 cm. L, roundish- 

 elliptical, elliptical, or oblong-elliptical to ovate, apex rounded or 

 obtuse, slightly emarginate, or broadly and obtusely acuminate ; 

 panicles terminal and axillary, corymbose ; carpels 2-3 ; cocci 

 1_3. DO. Prodr. i. 726; Macf. Jam. i. 192; P. Wils. in N. 

 Amer. FL xxv. 186. Z. emarginatum Siv. Fl. Ind. Occ. 572 

 (1797); DC. Prodr. i. 726; Macf. Jam, i. 190. Z. sapindoides 

 DC. Prodr. L 728 (1824); Macf. Jam. i. 191. Z. aculeatum 

 Macf. loc. tit. Lauro afnnis terebinthi folio &c. Sloane Cat. 137 

 & Hist. ii. 24, t. 168, f. 4. Sapindus fruticosus caudice c. 

 Browne Hist. Jam. 207, t. 20, /. 2. Sapindus spinosus L. $>. PL 

 ed. 2, 526 (1762). Fagara emarginata Sw. Prodr. 33 (1788). 

 F. spinosa Sw. loc. cit. Tobinia coriacea, T. spinosa and T. 

 emarginata Ham. Prodr. 57 (1825) ; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 137. 

 Fagara sapindoides Kr. & Urb, in Engl. Jalirb. ocxi. 587 (1896). 

 F. Swartzii Kr. & Urb. torn. cit. 589. F. spinosa Kr. & Urb. torn, 

 cit. 590 (non Sw.). Swartz's types are in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Lignum Rorum, Licca Tree, Suarra Wood. 



Sloane Herb. v. 83 ! Wright ! Shakspear ! below Berwick House ; 

 Flamstead; Macfadyen ; high woods, St. Ann, Purdiel Wilson ! March I 

 Ferry Pen, 150 ft., Campbell ! Tweedside road, south St. Andrew, 2000 ft. ; 

 Content road, 2000 ft. ; near Lititz, 500 ft. ; Long Mt. south side, 500- 

 800 ft. ; Pedro Bluff ; near Ferry, 200 ft. ; Llandovery ; Inverness, 

 Clarendon, 200 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 5665, 5666, 6281, 6290, 7220, 8934, 

 9575, 9728, 10,044, 10,375, 11,689. 



Shrub 4-10 ft. high, or tree to 20 ft. high, spiny or unarmed; trunk 

 armed with broad conical spiny knobs, or unarmed ; twigs thickly covered 

 with long straight spines or unarmed. Leaves 7-15 cm. L, with a pair of 

 spines below the insertion of the leaflets on the upper side with a few 

 other spines beneath, or unarmed ; leaflets in 2-6(-10) pairs, sessile or 

 subsessile, base rounded or obtuse, often unequal-sided, shiny on upper 



