206 RUTACEAE. 



1. Bunchosia glandulosa (Cav.) DC. Prodr. 1: 581. 1824. 



MalpigUa glandulosa Cav. Diss. 8: 411. pi. 239. f. 2. 1789. 



A shrub, or sometimes a tree up to 8 m. high. Leaves oblong to oblanceo- 

 late or elliptic-obovate, glabrous, 3-11 cm. long, obtuse or acute at the apex, 

 narrowed or acute at the base, bright-green, somewhat paler beneath than above, 

 the petioles 5-12 m. long; panicles often many, as long as the leaves or shorter; 

 pedicels finely pubescent when young, becoming glabrous; sepals oblong or 

 ovate-oblong, about 3 mm. long; petals yellow, the larger 6-7.5 mm. long, with 

 suborbicular, erose or denticulate blades; ovary and style glabrous; drupes 

 ovoid, red or orange, 2-lobed, 9-15 mm. in diameter. 



Scrub-lands. Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Great Exuma, Watling's 

 Island : Hispaniola ; Porto Rico ; St. Thomas to Martinique ; Yucatan. Bunchosia. 



Family 6. RUTACEAE Juss. 



Rue Family. 



Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs, with heavy-scented and glandular-punc- 

 tate foliage, mainly compound estipulate leaves, and perfect or polygamo- 

 dioecious flowers. Sepals 4 or 5, or none. Petals 4 or 5, hypogynous 

 or perigynous. Stamens of the same number, or twice as many, distinct, 

 inserted on the receptacle ; anthers 2-eelled, mostly versatile. Disk annular. 

 Pistils 1-5, distinct, or 1 and composed of 2-5 carpels, inserted on the 

 receptacle. Fruit various, a capsule, berry or samara. Seeds oblong or 

 reniform; endosperm generally fleshy, sometimes none. About 110 genera 

 and 950 species, most abundant in South Africa and Australia. 



Fruit dry, capsular or samaroid ; stamens 3-5. 



Fruit dehiscent, not winged; flowers whitish or greenish. t. Zanthoxylum. 



Fruit indehiscent, winged ; flowers red or pinkish. 2. Spathelia. 



Fruit pulpy, drupaceous ; stameDS 8 or 10. 3. Amyris. 



1. ZANTHOXYLUM [Catesby] L. Sp. PL 270. 1753. 



Trees or shrubs with alternate pinnate leaves, the twigs and petioles 

 commonly prickly. Flowers axillary or terminal, cymose, whitish or greenish, 

 mostly small. Sepals 4 or 5, or none. Petals imbricated. Staminate flowers 

 with 4 or 5 hypogynous stamens. Pistillate flowers with 1-5 distinct pistils, 

 rarely with some stamens. Carpels 2-ovuled. Pods 2-valved, 1-2-seeded. Seeds 

 oblong,- black and shining. [Greek, yellow-wood.] About 150 species, of tem- 

 perate and tropical regions. Type species: Zanthoxylum Clava-Herculis L. 



Petiole and rachis winged ; inflorescence lateral or axillary, short- 



spicate. 1. Z. Fagara. 



Petiole and rachis wingless ; inflorescence mostly terminal, panicu- 

 late or corymbose-paniculate. 

 Sepals, petals and stamens 3 ; leaflets obovate. 



Ovary 3-carpellary. . 2. Z. coriaceum. 



Ovary 1-carpellary. 3. Z. cabense. 



Sepals, petals and stamens 5, rarely 4 ; leaflets lanceolate to 



ovate. 4. Z. flavum. 



1. Zanthoxylum Fagara (L.) Sarg. Gard. & For. 3: 186. 1890. 



Schinus Fagara L. Sp. PI. 389. 1753. 



Fagara Pterota L. Syst. ed. 10, 897. 1759. 



Fagara lentiscifolia H. & B. ; Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol., 165. 1809. 



Zanthoxylum Pterota H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 3. 1823. 



Fagara Fagara Small, Fl. SE. IT. S. 675. 1903. 



