178 FLOEA OF JAMAICA Zanthoxylum 



10. Z. jamaieense P. WiU. in Torreya ix. 32 (1909) & in 

 N. Amer. Ft. xxv. pt. 3, 185 ; leaves with an odd leaflet ; leaflets 

 elliptical to oblong-elliptical, apex usually shortly and abruptly 

 acuminate, rarely rounded, emarginate ; panicles terminal, corym- 

 bose ; carpels 3 ; cocci 2 or 1 with 1 or 2 aborted. 



Dolphin Head, Britton, 2310 1 hills near Kempshot, Britton, 2433. 



Tree 15-80 ft. high, trunk with corky spiny knobs at the base, branches 

 unarmed or with a few slender straight prickles. Leaves 12-20 cm. 1., 

 sometimes, with the rhacbis and midrib of leaflet beneath, prickly ; leaflets 

 in 1-4 pairs, sessile or subsessile (but terminal long-stalked), 9-3 cm. 1., 

 margin slightly crenulate or entire, nerves and veins reticulate, prominu- 

 lous beneath, less so above, pellucid dots along the margin and very few 

 within. Male flowers (immature) : Sepals 3. Petals 3, ovate. Stamens 3. 

 Female flowers : Sepals 3, semicircular or broadly triangular. Petals 3, 

 ovate, 2-2 '2 mm. 1, Carpels distinct. Cocci globular, apiculate, surface 

 pitted, 4 mm. in diam. 



We have only seen a poor specimen, and have had to depend for the 

 most part on P. Wilson's description. 



11. Z. spinosum Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 574 (1797); leaves with 

 or without an odd leaflet; leaflets 1*5-6 cm. 1., roundish- 

 olliptical, elliptical, or oblong-elliptical to ovate, apex rounded or 

 obtuse, slightly emarginate, or broadly and obtusely acuminate ; 

 panicles terminal and axillary, corymbose ; carpels 2-3 ; cocci 

 1-3.— DC. Prodr. i. 72Q ; Marf. Jam. i. 192; P. Wih. in N. 

 Amer. Fl. xxv. 186. Z. emarginatum Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 572 

 (1797); DC. Prodr. i. 726; Mac/. Jam. i. 190. Z. sapindoides 

 DC. Prodr. i. 728 (1824); Macf. Jam. i. 191. Z. aculeatum 

 Macf. loc. cit. Lauro afiinis terebinthi folio &c. Sloane Cat. 137 

 & Hist, a. 24, t. 168, f. 4. Sapindus fruticosus caudice &c. 

 Browne Hist. Jam. 207, t. 20, /. 2. Sapindus spinosus L. Sp. PI. 

 ed. 2, 526 (1762). Fagara emarginata Sw. Prodr. 33 (1788). 

 F. spinosa Sw. loc. cit. Tobinia coriacea, T. spinosa and T. 

 emarginaU Ham. Prodr. 57 (1825) ; Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 137. 

 Fagara sapindoides Kr. & Urb. in Engl. Jahrh. xxi. 587 (1896). 

 F. Swartzii Kr. & TJrh. torn. cit. 589. F. spinosa Kr. & Zhh. torn, 

 cit. 590 (non Sw.). Swartz's types are in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Lignum Rorum, Licca Tree, Suarra Wood. 



Sloane Herb. v. 83 ! Wright 1 Shakspear 1 below Berwick House ; 

 Flamstead ; Macfadyen ; high woods, St. Ann, Purdie 1 Wilson 1 March ! 

 Ferry Pen, 150 ft., Campbelll Tweedside road, south St. Andrew, 2000 ft. ; 

 Content road, 2000 ft. ; near Lititz, 500 ft. ; Long Mt. south side, 500- 

 800 ft. ; Pedro Bluff ; near Ferry, 200 ft. ; Llandovery ; Inverness, 

 Clarendon, 200 ft. ; Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 5665, 5666, 6281, 6290, 7220, 8934, 

 9575, 9728, 10,044, 10,375, 11,689. 



Shrub 4-10 ft. high, or tree to 20 ft. high, spiny or unarmed ; trunk 

 armed with broad conical spiny knobs, or unarmed ; twigs thickly covered 

 with long straight spines or unarmed. Leaves 7-15 cm. 1., with a pair of 

 spines below the insertion of the leaflets on the upper side with a few 

 other spines beneath, or unarmed ; leaflets in 2-6(-10) pairs, sessile or 

 subsessile, base rounded or obtuse, often unequal-sided, shiny on upper 



