46 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



the connection between sorrow and Christian grace, was called ' The 

 herb of grace.' " 



Rue is need by Arabs in Palestine and Syria as a preventive of the 

 ill effects of water drunk at unaccustomed springs : they either chew 

 the leaves, or soak the plant in water. Fullerton. 



TRIBE ZAKTHOXYLE^E. Shrubs or trees ; flowers regular, 

 usually polygamous, ovary deeply 2 to 5-lobed ; carpels 

 capsular. 



ZANTHOXYLUM. Leaves alternate, disk small, stamens 3 to 

 5, fruit of 1 to 5 round one-seeded carpels, separating or not. 



Z. Ehetsa. A tree entirely covered with prickles, bark grey, 

 leaves pinnate, leaflets 8 pair or more, oval pointed, unequal 

 sided, smooth ; flowers very small yellow in large terminal 

 panicles, all parts 4, carpels rough black, size of a pea, 

 splitting open. Tirpdl, Sisal, tisal, Koclili. 



Konkan and Ghauts, not very common. The seeds are very 

 aromatic, and are used as pepper. 



Evodia, leaves opposite, stamens 4 or 5, stigma 4-lobed, fruit of 4 

 three-valved cocci. *E. Roxburghiana (Zanthoxylum triphyllum (!>.) 

 A small unarmed tree, leaves large, of three oblong obovate leaf- 

 lets : flowers small, white, in cymes or panicles. All along the 

 Ghauts (D.)' The books vary very much in the description of this 

 tree. 



(Tribe Toddalicse) Toddalia, leaves alternate, flowers unisexual. 

 *T. aculeata, shrub or small tree, leaves trifoliate, flowers small,"white, 

 in cymes, calyx glandular, petals, stamens, and stigma-lobes 5, 

 fruit grooved orange colour, size of a small cherry. Ranmiri, S. 

 Konkan and Ghauts sparingly : Canara, plentiful (D.). The whole is 

 hot and pungent. H. includes in this D's Limoniaoligandia, which 

 has fruit size of a pea. AcrorycnMa, calyx, lobes and petals 4, 

 stamens 8, inserted under a thick 8-angled disk, stigma 4-grooved. 

 *A. laurifolia (Clausena simplicifolia, D.) tree or shrubby, leaves oval 

 oblong, flowers yellowish-white, fragrant, sepals much rounded, 

 petals oblong from a broad base. Tnlkut Ghaut (D). 



TRIBE AURANTIE^. The orange family. 

 Shrubs or trees abounding in a volatile oil, the leaves dotted 

 with transparent glands. 1 Flowers regular, generally white, 

 calyx lobes and petals 4 or 5, disk within the stamens, fruit a 

 berry, usually pulpy. 



The very visible oil glands in the leaves, and the flowers generally 

 resembling orange blossoms, enable one to identify most species of 

 this family, which belongs almost entirely to tropical Asia. The 

 flowers of all species here given are white, except Feronia. 



1 Other orders which have dotted leaves, more or less generally, 

 are Myrtacese, Myrsinese, and Burseraceae. 



