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EVODIA. F.B.I. 33 V. 



Unarmed trees and shrubs with opposite, simple or 

 tri-foliate or odd-pinnate leaves ; and small flowers in 

 panicled cymes, with deeply four-lobed ovary which in 

 fruit divides into two or four hard dry carpels each with 

 one shining seed. 



Species about thirty, in tropical Asia, Pacific islands, East 

 African islands, Australia. 



Evodia roxburghiana Benth. ; F.B.I, i 487, V i. 

 A small well branched tree with dirty green foliage. 

 Leaves of three leaflets : main stalk 2 inches : stalks of 

 the leaflets % inch. Leaflets nearly equal quite glabrous, 

 obovate-oblong, entire, rounded at the apex or with a 

 short point : nerves numerous, parallel, conspicuous when 

 dry. Panicles long-stalked, axillary : branches hori- 

 zontal. Flowers yellow-green, small, in dense clusters of 

 J4 inch across. Seeds black, shiny. 



Nilgiris : at Pykara very common in the sholas. Not at 

 higher levels. 



Gen. Dist. On lower hills, e.g., Shevaroys, Agastiarmallay, Shaklos- 

 pur : northward to the Khasi hills and eastwards to Ceylon, Sumatra and 

 Java. 



XANTHOXYLUM. f.b.i. 33 viii. 



Yellow-wood, 



Shrubs or trees with yellow-wood, usually prickly. 

 Leaves alternate, pinnately three or more-foliate. 

 Flowers small, the parts three, four, or five; unisexual. 

 Ovary deeply lobed ; carpels with two ovules each ; 

 when ripe globose with one black shining seed which 

 may hang from the opened carpel for some time. 



Species 80 in the hotter parts of the world. 



Xanthoxylum tetraspcrmum Wight and Arnott ; Herb. 

 Wight Prop. 981 ! ; F.B.I, i 494> VIII 8 ; common 



