690 



DIOECIA PENTANDRIA 



ZANTHOXYLUM. Gen. Pl. 1512. 



Masculu Calyx 5- 



partitus.' 



Corolla 



^tamina 3, 5, 6, 8. 



Foeminei, Calyx 5 



part It us 



sen 5-petala. 



Corolla 

 Styli 



3,5. 



Capsulce 2, 3 



? 



monospermae 



/Sterile florets, 

 lyx 5-parted. 



6, 8. 



Qorol 

 Stamens 3, 5 



J 



? 



Fertile florets 



lyx 

 la 







parted. 



fOa- 

 Coral 



9 



or 



Styles 2 



5-petalled. 

 5. Cap- 



sides 2, 3, 5, one-seed 

 ed. ' 



1. Clava Herculis. 



V 



Z. aculeatiira 



5 



foliis 



pinnatis, foliolis ovatis, 

 acuniinatis, repandis. 



basi aequalibiis; petio- 



Prickly; leaves pin 



nate, 



leaflets ovate 



9 



communi 



acuminate, repand, e- 



qual at base; common 



aculeato; [petiole prickly; flowers 



floribus termiualibus [terminal paniculate 



paniculatis. 



Sp, pl. 4, p. 754. Nutt, 2. p. 236. 

 Z, Ramiflorunij Mich, 2. p. 235. 

 Z. Fraxineunij Pursh, 1 . p. 209- 



With this species I am entirely unacquainted. Does it not really belong 

 to, the West Indies? The "Hercules Club" of our Negroes and Country- 

 men is, as far as I have been able to ascertain^ the Aralia Spinosa. 



Grows in the woods of the West Indies and Carolina. Lin. 



Flowers 



2. TiucARPUM. Mich. 



Z. foliis glaberrimis, 



pinnatis; foliolis petio- 



latis, falcato-lanceola- 



Leaves 



very 



la- 



brous, pinnate; leaflets 



on petioles; falcate Ian- 



