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Usually a shrub, sometimes a small tree up to 10 m. in height, intricately 

 branched, the branches armed with hooked prickles, or occasionally unarmed, 

 the young twigs puberulent. Leaves 2.5-10 cm. long, odd-pinnate; leaflets 

 5-13, obovate to elliptic or suborbicular, 7-25 mm. long, rounded or cmarginate 

 at the apex, mostly cuneate or narrowed at the base, crenulate, bright-green and 

 shining above, the petiole and rachis grooved and winged ; inflorescence lateral, 

 axillary, short-spicate; sepals 4, not more than 0.5 mm. long; petals 4, yellowish- 

 green, 2-3 mm. long; staminate (lowers with 4 stamens, longer than the petals; 

 pistillate flowers with a sessile ovary and slender styles; follicles globose, 3-4 

 mm. in diameter; seeds black, shining. 



Scrub-lands and coppices, Elbow Cay, Great Bahama, Berry Islands, North Cal 

 Cay, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera to Watling's, Great Guana Cay, Great 

 Exiima, Long Island, Acklin's and North Caicos : Florida; Texas; Mexico; Central 

 and South America ; West Indies. Wild Lime. Satin-wood. 



2. Zanthoxylum coriaceum A. Rich. Ess. Fl. Cub. 326. 1845. 



Fagara coriacea Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. 21: 591. 1896. 



A prickly aromatic shrub or small tree up to 7 m. high, the old wood 

 bearing many corky conic cushions. Leaves 2 dm. long or less, glabrous, 

 mostly evenly pinnate; leaflets 4-13, obovate or oblong-obovate, 2-6.5 em. long, 

 obtuse, emarginate or bluntly acuminate at the apex, narrowed or cuneate at the 

 base, dark-green and shining above, pale-green and often prickly beneath ; cymes 

 terminal, rarely axillary; flowers yellowish-white; sepals, petals and stamens 3; 

 ovary 3-carpellary; petals of the pistillate flowers about 4 mm. long, a little 

 larger than those of the staminate; follicles subglobose to ellipsoid, 5-6 mm. 

 long, apiculate, brown, rough; seeds 1 in each follicle, subglobose, black, shining, 

 3-4 mm. long. 



Coppices or sometimes in the white-lands, throughout the archipelago from 

 Abaco and Great Bahama to North Bimini, Caicos and Inagua : Florida : Cuba ; 

 Grand Cayman and Hispaniola. Referred by Dolley and Hitchcock to Zanthoxylum 

 emarginatum Sw. Hercules' Club. Doctor's Club. 



3. Zanthoxylum cubense P. Wilson, Torreya 9: 32. 1909. 



Zanthoxylum juglandifolium A. Rich. Ess. Fl. Cub. 332. 1845. Xot 

 Willd. 1806. " 



A prickly glabrous shrub or tree up to 13 m. high. Leaves odd-pinnate ; 

 leaflets 3-9, obovate, 5-8 cm. long, obtuse, short-acuminate, or emarginate at 

 the apex, narrowed at the base, shining above, rather dull beneath ; inflorescence 

 terminal, paniculate; sepals, petals and stamens 3; petals about 1.6 mm. long, 

 4-5 times as long as the calyx; ovary 1-carpellary ; follicles solitary, sessile, 

 globose, apiculate, about 4 mm. in diameter. 



Coppices and pine-lands, near Deep Creek, Andros : Cuba. Cuban Yellow- 

 wood. 



4. Zanthoxylum flavum Yahl, Eclog. 3: 48. 1807. 



Xanthoxylon cribrosum Spreng. Syst. 1: 946. 1825. 

 Fagara flava Krug. & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. 21: 571. 1896. 



An unarmed tree, reaching a maximum height of about 12 m. with a trunk 

 about 5 dm. in diameter, usually smaller, sometimes shrubby, the light grey 

 bark nearly smooth, the twigs finely stellate-pubescent when young, soon gla- 

 brous. Leaves 1-2.5 dm. long, odd-pinnate, finely Btellate-canescent when 

 young; leaflets 3-11, mostly 5 or 7, subcoriaceous, ovate or lanceolate to elliptic, 

 very nearly sessile, obtuse or acutish at the apex, mostly rounded at the base, 

 crenate or nearly entire, pellucid-punctate ; panicles terminal, many-flowered, 

 5-15 cm. long; pedicels and rachis stellate-canescent ; calyx about 1.5 mm. 

 broad; petals 2.5-4 mm. long; staminate flowers with 5, rarely 4 stamens about 



