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148 ZANTHOXYLACEÆ. ZANTHOXYLON. 
equal to or longer than them, inserted round the base of the gynophore. © Pis- 
tillum rudimentary, simple or compound.—Frm. Stamens usually wanting, 
sometimes very short, and either with or without abortive anthers. Ovaries 
(1-5) as many as the petals or fewer, seated on a globose or cylindrical gyno- 
phore: ovules 2 in each cell, suspended, collateral. Styles 1 from the apex 
of each ovary, either distinct or united at the apex, sometimes very short or 
searcely any. Capsules 1-5, sessile or stalked on the gynophore, 2-valved, 
1-2-seeded. Seeds when solitary globose, when in pairs hemispherical, shin- 
ing and black. Embryo straight or slightly curved.—Trees or shrubs, with 
usually prickles on the branches, petioles, and nerves of the leaves. Leaves 
usually pellucid-dotted, alternate or opposite, simple, ternate, or pinnated 
either with or without an odd one. Flowers small, inflorescence axillary or 
terminal, various. 
476. (1) Z. Rhetsa (DC.:) arboreous, with prickles over every part of the 
tree ; bark corky : leaves alternate, equally pinnated ; leaflets 8—16-pair, lan- 
ceolate, unequal-sided, quite entire, glabrous, panicles terminal: petals and 
stamens 4: ovary and style solitary: stigma acute : capsule sessile, solitary, 
globose : seed solitary—DC. prod. 1. p. 728.—Fagara Rhetsa, Row). ff. Ind. 
1. p. 417 ; (ed. Wall. 1. p. 438; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 185 ).— Rheed. Mal. 5. 
t. 34.——Mountainous parts of the coast of Coromandel. 
We have not seen this: nor do we know whether Lacuris illicioides, Ham. 
in Wall. L. n. 7119, be the same or not. It, Z. Bardumga, DC., and some 
` species from America, agree in being tetrandrous with a single ovary: 
approaching on the one hand to the subgenus Fagara, Jacq. * (tetrandrous 
with two ovaries), and on the other to Macqueria or Langsdorfia (pentan- 
drous with one ov; L the subgenus which they form may be called Rhetst. 
Z. Zelanicum, DC. (the Lunu-Ankenda, Geertn. fr. t. 68, f. 9, and conse- 
quently the Fagara triphylla of Moon's Catalogue of Ceylon plants and of 
Roxburgh, Evodia triphylla, DC., and Zanthoz. triphyllum, Juss.), does not, 
however, belong to it, but to the subgenus Aubertia, the pistillum being 4- 
celled, although the number of mature capsules be, from abortion, often re- 
duced to one or two: we believe that it has not been yet found in the Pe- 
ninsula, but if so, it may be readily recognised by being without prickles, 
and by the leaves being tri-foliolate, opposite and glabrous. 
477. (2) Z.  connaroides (W. & A.:) unarmed : leaves alternate, unequal- 
ly pinnated ; leaflets 3—4-pair; lateral ones ovate, unequal-sided ; terminal 
one oblong; all with a short obtuse acumination, quite entire, without pe 
lucid dots, glabrous above, pubescent and slightly glaucous beneath : peti 
glabrous: peduncles glabrous, axillary, elongated, bearing a dichotomous 
cyme with the primary ramifications elongated : calyx 5-cleft : capsule coria- 
ceous, solitary, sessile, gibbous at the base, ovoid, glabrous : seed solitary-— 
Wight! cat. n. 553. 
Capsule 2-valved, valves when dry diverging widely on the one side, but 
` eeous and only slightly glossy ; the whole coat is very thin: there is DO % 
lus. We have not seen the flower, but while the leaves are more like Con- 
narus, the above structure of the fruit seems to bring it to the present order, 
if not to Zanthoxylum. The only specimen before us has no prickle: 
on the leaves or peduncle. 
478. (3) Z. tetraspermum (W. & A. :) shrubby, very prickly ; young shoots 
EA this Fagara, Lam., is different, having 3 petals, 3 stamens, and 3 ovaries ; Desvaux has c 
