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erect, round, unarmed, smooth. Leaves alternate, pinnate ; 

 leaflets 2-3 paired, petiolulated, elliptic, slightly acuminate with 

 a blunt point, acute at the b.ase, punctulato-glandulose and 

 crenulated along the margin, somewhat coriaceous,, smooth, 

 shining, nerveless, parallelly veined : petiole terete, channelled 

 above. Panicle terminal, composed of a number of partial cy- 

 mules. Common peduncle angulose ; the branches alternate, 

 rather long. Flowers dioecious, numerous, crowded, white, 

 shortly pedicelled. Calyx minute ; lobes 3, rounded. Petals 

 3, oval, obtuse, erect. $ FL Stamens 3, alternating with the 

 petals, hypogynous : filaments subulate, somewhat longer than 

 the petals : anthers ovate, yellow. Ovary small, conical, 3-go- 

 nal: style 1, very short : stigma subcapitate. 5 FL Stamens 0. 

 Ovary green, globose : style unilateral, arising from the base 

 and incumbent over the ovary, length of the petals: stigma 

 subcapitate, yellow. Fruit size of a black pepper, 1-celled, 1- 

 seeded ; seed black, shining, attached and pendulous from the 

 apex of one of the valves. 



Tlie above description agrees very closely with that of X. 

 ACUMINATUM by Swartz, with the exception, that the filaments 

 are described by him as shorter than the petals, whereas, in the 

 specimens before me, I found them one-half longer. De Can- 

 doUe is incorrect, where he states the leaves to be impari-pin- 

 nate. When the capsule opens, the valves spread out, and 

 from the seed, which resembles a black bead, retaining its con- 

 nection to one of them, a very singular appearance is presented. 



7. Zantlioxylum Elephantiasis. Warty -panided 



Yellow-wood. 



Unarmed, leaves impari -pinnated 5-7-jngate, leaf- 

 lets lanceolate unequal at the base crenulated glabrous 

 pellucido-punctate, panicle terminal with the peduncle 

 and its branches verrucose, flowers polygamous pen- 

 tandrous. 



HAB. Near Mount Lebanon, and Moccha Wood, Port- 

 Royal mountains. 



FL. September. 



Stem about 15-30 feet high, in the adult unarmed, of an 

 ash colour, smooth : branches few, erect, at the extremities ri- 

 moso-angulated. Leaves at the ends of the branchlets, impari- 

 pinnate ; leaflets lanceolate, unequal at the base, blunt, the odd 

 leaflet the largest, crenated, smooth, pellucido-punctulated : 

 common petiole roundish, angulose, minutely glanduloso-punc- 

 tate, glabrous : partial petiole short. Panicle terminal ; 

 branches spreading horizontally, alternate, subtetragonal, verru- 

 cose : branchlets dividing into two pedicels, each 1-flowered ; 



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