306 XXXIII. RUTACE^ (oLiVEii). {Zanthoxyluw, . 



Upper Guinea. Cape Coast, T. Vogel ! (? Sierra Leone, Afzelius.) 



5. Z. Leprieurii, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 141. Branches rigid, 

 terete, prickly. Leaves 13-15-foliolate, glabrous; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, narrowed to the base, denticulate, shining above, paler beneath, 

 sessile, 1-2 in. long, 4-6 lines brbad ; common petiole 5-8 in., aculeate. 

 Flowers (female only known) small, m terminal spicate racemes. Sepals 5, 

 minute, roundish. Petals 5, much longer than the sepals, ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, subemarginate, reflexed. Ovary 1-2-ovulate, ovoid-oblong. Style 

 lateral, incurved. 



XTpper Guinea. Senegambia, Lepneitr. 



Zanthoxylum Leprieurii I have failed to identify amongst our collections. It was de- 

 scribed from incomplete specimens with pistillate flowers only, so that possibly Z. nihescens^ 

 to which it is evidently nearly allied, may prove to be the same, though differing apparently 

 in the symmetry of the tlowers. 



The "■Zanthoxylum ?" referred to in Fl. Nigrit. 271, from Cape Palmas {Ansell) is im- 

 possible to identify and not worth describing. 



3. TODDALIA, Juss. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 300. 



Nearly as in Zantlioxylum. Flowers unisexual. Petals imbricate or val- 

 vate. Malefl. : Stamens 2, 4, 5, 8, or 10. Female fl. : Ovary 2-5(-7)- 

 celled, rarely 1-celled, entire. Fruit fleshy or coriaceous, 2- or. more celled. 

 — Shrubs, often scandent, with or without prickles. Leaves alternate, 3- 

 foliolate ; leaflets glandular-dotted. 



A small genus of the warmer regions of the Old World. 



Unarmed. Leaflets elliptic-oblong, acuminate. Panicles axillary and 



terminal. Stamens 4. Petals valvate. Ovary" 1-celled . . . . \. T. nohilis. 



Unarmed. Leaflets elongate-oval. Panicles terminal. Stamens 8. 



Ovary normally 4-cellcd 2. 71 lanceolata. 



Prickly. Leaflets oblanccolatc or broadly oval, obtuse. Ovary 5-celled 3. T.f' sp. 



1. T. nobilis, llook.f. in Gen. PL i. 301. Glabrous with pale green, 

 terete, unarmed extremities. Leaflets rather coriaceous, elongate, oblong- 

 oval or oblanceolate-oval, acute, more or less acuminate, narrowed to the 

 base and shortly petiolulate, entire or obsoletely undulate-denticulate above, 

 5-6 in. long, 1-lf in. broad, on petioles 1-2 in, Male flow^ers 4-merous, 

 sessile, subglomerulate, minutely bracteolate, in axillaiy and terminal al- 

 ternately branching panicles shorter than the leaves. Calyx-lobes short, 

 broadly rounded, submucronulate. Petals oblong, imbricate, rather thick. 

 Stamens 4. Female flowers in axillary spikes shorter than the petioles. 

 Ovary 1-celled with a sessile, peltate, rounded, entire stigma. — Teclea nobilis,. 

 Delile in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2. xx. 90 ; Rich. Fl. Abyss. Atlas, t. 28. Aspi- 

 dostigma acuminatum, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 18. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, in deep, narrow, alpine valleys, Schimper ! 



A plant nearly allied to the above, with short axillary panicles of male flowers only, is' 

 in the Kew Herbarium from the Sugarloaf mountain. Sierra Leone [Barter). It is probably 

 distinct, but insufficient for description. 



