194 THALAMIFLORiE. 



flowers ratlier large, polygamous, greenish-yellow. $ Fl. Calyx 

 small ; sepals 5, overlapping ejicli other, roundish, blunt. Pe- 

 tals 5, oblong, blunt, glabrous. Stamens 5 : filaments subulate, 

 length of the petals, alternating with them ; anthers rather 

 large, oblong. ^ Fl. with the calyx, petals, and stamens as in 

 the male : carpella in the ovarian state 3, connate : style (?) : 

 stigma blunt. Cai-pels (half developed) subglobose, at the apex 

 5-angulari-lobate : seeds minute, 3 in each cell? 



Although I have stated the stem to be unarmed, it is possi- 

 ble that it may be furnished with prickles when young. I 

 have given the specific name, from the resemblance of the 

 bark of the stalk of the panicle, to the appearance of the skin 

 of the feet in Elephantiasis. 



8. Zantlioxylum Clava Herculis. Prickly Yellow. 



Spinose, leaves pinnate 7-8-jugate, leaflets shortly 

 petiolulated oblongo-lanceolate obtuse subentire shin- 

 ing above, hairy along the nerves beneath, panicle 

 terminal, flowers pentandrous, carpels 5. 



Evonymo affinis arbor spinosa, folio alato, fructu sicco pen- 

 tagono et pentacocco, ligno santali odore, Sloane, II. 28. t. 

 172. — Xanthoxylum, Browne, 189. 



HAB. Common. Port-Royal mountains, near Green Valley. 



FL. June. 



A tree about 20 feet in height. Stem erect, armed with nu- 

 merous strong thick spines or prickles : branches spreading, 

 thorny, tomentose at their termination. Leaves situated prin- 

 cipally at the ends of the branches, impari-pinnate, 7-8 paired ; 

 the leaflets very shortly petiolulated, for the most part opposite, 

 oblongo-lanceolate, blunt, entire, not punctated except along 

 the margin where there is a row of pedicelled dots giving the 

 appearance, when held against the light, of obsolete crenatures, 

 smooth shining above, hairy along the under surface of the 

 nerves : common petiole occasionally prickly, roundish, plane 

 above, pubescent ; partial, very short. Panicle terminal, in- 

 termixed with leaves, branched, of numerous very caducous 

 white flowers. Common peduncle angulose, striated, pubes- 

 cent, much and irregularly branched ; pedicels very short, fili- 

 form, several together. Calyx minute. Petals much larger, 

 spreading, ovate. Stamens 5, longer than the petals, with which 

 they alternate, spreading ; filaments subulate : anthers heart- 

 shaped. Ovary angular : stigmata 3, erect, appressed. Carpels 

 5, or by abortion fewer, distinct, puberulous, greenish. 



The bark of the root of this tree, dried and reduced to a 

 powder, is a common application to sores ; and an infusion of 

 it has the character of being antispasmodic. It is mentioned in 



