TopDALIA. ZANTHOXYLACEA. 149 
pubescent, older ones glabrous: petioles glabrous, prickly : leaves alternate, 
pinnate ; leaflets few, glabrous, oblong with a short obtuse acumination, with 
distant blunt serratures; racemes compound, axillary and terminal, almost 
without prickles, pubescent : petals, stamens, and ovaries, 4: capsules 4, all 
usually ripening, each with 1 glossy black seed.—Wight ! cat. n. 981 (male), 
982 (fruit ).—Zanthoxyli facie, &c., Wall.! L. n. 7526. 
The alternate leaves and symmetrical flowers in a quaternary proportion 
will distinguish this from all the known species and even sections of the ge- 
nus. Some of the leaves appear to us pinnately trifoliolate ; others present a 
petiole on which there are the scars of 2 pair of leaflets, and there may also 
have been a terminal one; while, on the other hand, the terminal leaflet of 
the trifoliolate leaf is on the one side of the apex of the petiole, indicating that 
there may have been four leaflets. From the very imperfect materials we yet 
have, it is thus impossible to state either the number of the leaflets, or whe- — 
ther the leaves be equally or unequally pinnated. 
II. TODDALIA. Juss.—Scopolia. Lam. ill. t. 139. f. 1. 
Flowers unisexual. Calyx short, 4-5-toothed. Petals 4-5, longer than 
the calyx, spreading —Mare. Stamens 4-5, longer than the petals, inserted 
round the base of the gynophore. Pistillum rudimentary, prism-shaped, 5- 
angled.—Frm. Filaments 5, sterile, very short. Gynophore short, 5-fur- 
rowed, gland-like. Ovary 1, ovoid, fleshy, 5- (or fewer?) celled: ovules 2 
in each cell, superposed. Stigma nearly sessile, peltately 5-lobed. Fruit 
fleshy, dotted, 2 ?-5-celled (some of the cells occasionally abortive). Seed 
solitary in each cell, somewhat angled-reniform. Embryo curved.—Shrubs. 
Leaves alternate, digitately trifoliate, more or less pellucid-dotted, with some- 
times two glands at the base of the leaflets. Flowers in axillary or terminal 
Tacemes or panicles. 
479. (1) T. aculeata (Pers.) stem and branches prickly : leaflets sessile, from 
oblong to broad-lanceolate, crenulate, glabrous, closely pellucid-dotted ; mid- 
rib beneath and petioles prickly or occasionally unarmed: racemes simple or 
compound: fruit 5-furrowed, with 3-5 perfect cells—DC. prod. 2. p. 83; 
Wight! cat. n. 531, 532.— T. Asiatica, Lam.—T. nitida, Lam. ill. t. 139. f. 1. 
T. rubricaulis, Willd.—Scopolia aculeata, Sm. ie. ined. p. 34; Spr. syst. 1. p. 
779 ; Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 616; (ed. Wall.) 2. p. 314 ; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 191. 
—Paullinia Asiatica, Linn.—Rheed. Mal. 5. t. 41; Burm. Zeyl. t. 24. 
To this, particularly to Wight's cat. n. 532 (petioles and leaves unarmed), 
the T. floribunda, Wall.! pl. As. rar. 3. t. 3, approaches so closely, that un- 
less in the tubercles (or very large base to the prickles) on its stem, we can 
Point out no character to separate them. All the P species we have 
Seen from the Peninsula, Ceylon, or Mauritius, we refer without hesitation to 
one and the same species. yoga 
480. (2) T.? bilocularis (W. & A. :) upper part not prickly : leaflets «om 2 
ly atalka) Pepsit d hte at both ends, with the point E 
ish, glabrous, pellucid-dotted, quite entire; lateral veins numerous, paralle m 
uniting into one that is parallel to and close to the margin: panicles axillary 
and terminal: fruit globose and 2-celled.— Wight! cat. n. 5 E ed: 
We can see no trace of thorns or prickles on our specimens: Ds 
imd young, and contains only two cells ; the dissepiment 1s thick anc r y 
in the middle : there are no traces of abortive cells, nor even of seeds, in t s 
We have examined. The dots on the younger leaves are pellucid, but on the 
older ones nearly opaque, from being filled with a resinous matter. 
