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Lower surface of leaves glabrous. 



Apices of leaflets acuminate or 

 apiculate, main nerves rather 

 faint, sub-horizontal or slightly 



ascending; cymes pyramidal... 2. E.Roxhurghiana. 

 Apices of leaflets shortly and 

 abruptly acuminate, main 

 nerves rather faint, sub-hori- 

 zoutal or ascending, cymes 

 corymbose ... ... 3. E. glabra. 



Apices of leaflets obtuse, nerves 

 very prominent beneath, cymes 

 corymbose ... ... 4. ^. robusta. 



Leaflets oblong or elliptic- oblong, not at 

 all obovate, tapering little to the ends : 

 ripe cocci "4 in. long ... ... 5. E. macrocarpa. 



Leaflets oblong-elliptic, tapering to each 

 end : cymes few-branched, very tomen- 

 tose : flowers in globular masses ... 6. E. piluUfera. 



Leaflets oval to elliptic, obtuse or sub- 

 acute, very coriaceous, the edges revolute 

 when dry : cymes small, flowers '25 in. 

 long ... ... ... 7. E. pachyphylla. 



Leaves l-foliolate ... ... ... 8. E. pedanculosa. 



1. EvODiA LATiFOLiA, DC. Prod. I., 724. A tree 15 to 20 feet high : 

 young branches stout, obscurely 4-angled, flattened at the nodes, rusty 

 or tawny-puberulous. Leaves 3-foliolate, membranous, the petiole 



4 to 6 in. long, usually angled, puberulous ; leaflets obovate-elliptic to 

 elliptic, acute or shortly acuminate, the base cuneate ; main nerves 

 13 to 18 pairs, spreading, curving, prominent beneath ; upper surface 

 glabrescent or glabrous except the tomentose midrib and nerves, the 

 lower softly pubescent, sometimes becoming glabrescent when old ; length 



5 to 9 in., breadth 2-5 to 4*5 in. (the middle one usually the largest) ; 

 petiole "2 to '4 in. Cymes axillary, broad, with opposite spreading rusfcy- 

 tomentose branches on stoutish puberulous peduncles I to 2 in. long. 

 Flowers less than -1 in. long, densely crowded; sepals sub-acute, pubes- 

 cent outside ; petals glabrous except a few hairs on the back outside • 

 ovary villous. Cocci 2 or 3 from each flower, broadly ovate, blunt, sub- 

 glabrous, J-2-seeded: seed black. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. L, 489; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind Bat. i. pt. 2, 672 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii, 244. Zanthoxylum 

 Rumphianum, Cham, in Linnaea v. 58. 



In all the provinces, except tlie Andamaus and Nicobars: Distrib. 

 Malayan Archipelago. 



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