Zanthoxylum KUTACE^ 175 



glabrous; bracts "5-1 mm. 1., ciliolxilate. Sepals 4, of male flower about 

 1 mm. 1., sligbtly imbricate at the base; of female flowers imbricate, 

 shorter, roundish, the outer broader than loug. Petals 4, of male flowers 

 about 3 mm. 1., oblong-elliptical; of female flowers about 2 mm. 1., 

 elliptical. Stamens 4, in male flower slightly longer than the petals, 

 wanting in female flowers or staminodes developed. Pistil of male flower 

 rather shorter than the petals, sterile. Coccvs 5-7 mm. 1., subglobular, 

 outer surface wrinkled, with or without brown glandular dots ; endocarp 

 at length free, and dropping out with the seed. Seed 3-4 mm. in diam., 

 subglobular. 



5. Z. Fagara Sarg. in Gard. & Forest Hi. 186 (1890) & Silv. i. 

 73, t. 32 ; leaflets obovate to roundish or sometimes elliptical, 

 margin slightly wavy, 1-2 • 5(-3 • 5) cm. 1. ; inflorescence in spike- 

 like racemes, solitary or 2-3 in the axils, or sometimes forming 

 a sort of head ; carpels 2 ; cocci 1 or 2. — P. Wils. torn. cit. 190. 

 Z. Pterota H. B. d K. Nov. Gen. <& Sp. vi. 3 (1823); DC. 

 Prodr. i. 725 ; Nutt. Sylv. Hi. 11, /. 84. Lauro affinis Jasmini&c. 

 Shane Cat. 137 & Bist. ii. 25, t. 162, /. 1. Pterota sub- 

 spinosa <fec. Browne Bist. Jam. 146, /. 5, f. 1. Schinus Fagara 

 L. Sp. PI. 389 (1753). Fagara Pterota L. Syat. ed. 10, 897 

 (1759) ; Amxn. v. 393 & Sp. PI. ed. 2, 172 ; Descourt. Fl. Ant. vii. 

 t. 455 ; Urh. in Engl. Jahrh. xxl. 575. F, lentiscifolia Bumb. & 

 Bonpl. ex Willd. Enum. i. 165 (1809) ; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 

 137. F. microphylla Griseb. loc. cit. (1859) (as regards the 

 Jamaican speciii:en). The type of Schinus Fagara L. is in Herb. 

 Sloane. Fagara Pterota L. is based on a specimen from Browne ; 

 a specimen from Browne so named in Solander's hand is in 

 Herb. Linn. 



Saven Tree, Bastard Ironwood. 



Sloane Herb. v. 87 ! Brotvne 1 Wright ! Sluikspear ! J.P. 1074, Morris ! 

 near Kingston on sea-shore, Fawcett ! Liguanea Plain, 600-800 ft. ; near 

 Bull Bay, 200 ft. ; Long Mountain, west and south, 800-50 ft., Harris I 

 Fl. Jam. 5678, 6732, 6783, 8373, 8384, 8388, 8841, 9579.— Bahamas, Cuba, 

 Hispaniola, Trinidad, tropical and subtropical continental America. 



Shrub or tree, 6-30 ft. high ; trees more or less armed, trunk with 

 corky conical knobs with an apical spine, branches sometimes with slightly 

 recurved prickles in the place of stipules. Leaves 4-8 cm. 1., with the 

 rhachis and usually also the petiole narrowly winged ; leaflets 7-9(-ll), 

 somewhat equal-sided or occasionally unequal-sided, apex rounded, gene- 

 rally emarginate. pellucid dots absent except sometimes a few marginal. 

 ' Infloi-escence '7-2 cm. 1.; bracts persistent, about '5 mm. 1. Flowers: 

 male and female on separate plants. Sepals slightly imbricate at base in 

 bud, of male flower somewhat square with a triangular apex, about 

 1 mm. 1., of female about '7 mm. 1. Petals of male flower about 3 mm. 1., 

 oblong or oblong-obovate. Stamens longer than the petals. Pistil in 

 maile flowers about half as long as petals, sterile ; in female flowers on a 

 gynophore branching above into the stalks of the two carpels. Cocci 

 about 3 mm. 1., subglobular, with minute glandular dots ; endocarp at 

 length free. Seed 2-5-3 mm. 1. and thick. 



The heart wood is brown tinged with red, with a thin yellowish sap wood. 

 The wood is hard and very close-grained. Weight about 46 lbs. per cubic 

 foot of the dry wood. 



