440 TETUANDUIA MONOGYNIA. Ludzsigtd, 



petioled, from six to twelve inches long, with pointed, prickly peti- 

 ols. Leajieti almost sessile, lanceolate-oblong, rounded and nearly 

 equal at tlie base, apex tapering into a narrow acumen, about three 

 inches long, with undulated n)argins, eiiliie or notched with remote 

 glandular indentures, especially while young, shining above, with 

 muneious sub niarguial, glandular, transparent dots ; pale beneath, 

 M'liii a more or less piickly nb. — Racemea from one to three, fascicled 

 in the exterior axils, a couple of niches long, erect, cylindric, on short 

 villous rotmd peduncles, covered with numerous white, fragrant, short- 

 pedicelled llowers. Calijr flat, with very small ovate acute seg- 

 ments. Pefuh lanceolate, slightly concave, four times longer ihau 

 the calyx, ending in a short point. Stamina twice the length of the 

 petals, spreading. — Piitilla? four, ovate, small, ending in a short re- 

 curved style; stigma acute, marked above with a short tooth. 



It appears to be the same as Loureiro's Fngara piperita, Fior. 

 Cochinch. ed. Willd. i. 101, dififering from Linnens's plant, as hua 

 been justly remarked in Roem. and Schult. Syst. Veg. iii. 296. It 

 lias also some resemblance to Tetradium, Lour. 1. cit. 115- which 

 Sir J. E. Smith considers as related to Fagara. — I have not been able 

 to discover any ovula in the four bodies in the centre of the flower, 

 which therefore may be considered as nectaries or abortive pistils, a 

 supposition which is much strengthened by the circumstance that 

 rone of the shrubs in the garden have produced anv fruit. This 

 dioicous species ought therefore to be referred to Zanthoxylon as 

 suggested by Dr. Uoxbnrgh. — All its younger parts and leaves have 

 a slightly pungent arcmalic taste and smell. — N. VV. 



LUDfl'IGfA. Schreb. Gen. N. 204. 

 Calj/x four-])arted. Corol four-petalled. Capsule inferior, four- 

 sided, four-celled. Seeds numerous. 



1. L. pfirvijiora, R. 



Annual, brandies diffuse. Lcates alternate, lanceolate, short-peti- 

 oled, smooth. Flozvers axillary, sessile. Qapsale linear, obsoletely 

 four-sidedi 



