494 xxxin. RUTACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [/f/.-.- 



A small erect tree, 30 ft., with horizontal branches; hranchlets terete, s1 

 prickles scattered, short, recurved. Leaves 8-12 in. ; petiole terete, w: 

 hooked prickles on the under-side ; leaflets 2-3 in., shortly petioled, oblong or elliptic, 

 subacute or obtusely acuminate, coriaceous, glossv above, base subeijual, nerves dis- 

 tinct. Cyme* 2-4 in., sparingly branched, densely velvety, branches lew short and 

 rachis stout; bracts and bracteoles caducous. Flowers (9 only seen) small, clustered ; 

 about ^ in. diam. Sepal* 4, pubescent. Petals glabrous. Car^tis 4, glabrous. 

 Carpels (hardly ripe) in. long, 4, compressed, beaked. 



5. Z. oxyphyllum, A''/</>-'. /// Trn.<. Linn. Soc. xx. 42; glabrous, 

 prickles hooked, leaflets alternate and opposite 3-10 pairs, young crenate, 

 cymes terminal and axillary quite glabrous or .slightly pubescent, limvirs 

 large. Zanthoxylon violaceum, II "<///. Cut. 1213. 



Ti.Mi-KKATE and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Garwhal, alt. 4-8000 ft., to Sikkim, 

 alt. 6-9000 ft., and BH-. i AN; KIIASIA Mrs., .-tit. 4 ijnuo ft, 



A shrub, clothed with hooked prick i very variable in size, 4-12 in.; 



petiole arched, usually very prickly along the back ; leaflets in voting speeimens ovate- 

 ry long-acuminate, QMBate-Wnttte, pale, ii.-rves very dist met beneath, in 

 older ones more elliptic orobi. in. long in Kuma.m specimens, upwards of 4 in. 



in some Sikkim ones, coriaceous, shining I mirh branched many- 



lingered. Fkm-erx the largest ">f the Indian species, J-i in. diam., umbellate, on tho 

 branches of the cyme ; pedicels slender, longer than the petals. /y ///.> 1. 

 obtuse, /',-fnln 4, obtuse, imbricate Ripe car/ I* 2 -4, the si/e of a pea, tnl 

 hardly beaked. Seed black. 



(\. Z. khasianum, Hnnk.f. ,- brandies ]eti<d<-s and inflorescence pubes- 

 cent, leaflets 8-10 pairs alternate rarely opposite small ovate with an 

 obliquely curved narrowed obtuse apex quite glabrous, cymes axillary and 

 terminal. 



KIIASIA Mrs. ; at Myrung. alt. 4-6000 ft., .7. It. H .(' T. T. 



A small very fragrant climbing strangling bush, llrnm-l,, * \ery slender, sparingly 

 priekly. L<ai:e>i 1 ft. l>ng, areh-'d ; petiole more or less pubeseeut, usually copiously 

 prickly underneath ^ Leaneti l l , : in., straight or oblique, coriaceous, shining above, 



lully ^ of the blade iiMialiv nccupied bv the runt racted apex ; partial jn-t'oics ^-i in. 



('linns (9 only seen) 2 in., pai.iclcd, spreading, very pubrscent. /,',j' ru,-,,,-/* 1-.; 



1 in. (iiam.. glolmse, imt heak-'d. Xm/* i.-k. 1 have not ventured to unite 



tliiswitli ihe very similar ChioeM /. euspidatum. ("i,nnn>.(ln K,ir.l<>nn/. /;(. iii. ;;-j',i:, 

 tliough ibis agrees entirelt in halnt. the cnriooa i'oimof the alternate p<tiolcd small 

 . and in the paniculate evme and fruit ; it diflers in being very pubescent on the 

 branches petiole and rachis of the l.^af and evme, and in the small less coriaceous and 

 less shining leaves, that do not blacken in drying. 



7. Z. Hamiltonianum, Wall. Cat. 7117 ; prickles few short, branches 

 {md petioles glabrous or more or less pubescent or velvety, 1. 



4 7 in., 2 -:3 pairs, opposite glossy oblong not sinuate, cymes axillary tomen- 

 tose or glabrous. 



\M, Jenl.-nix; Sudxah and UIHMA, (>r(ffith; I'.orylaii, Jlniniiton (Feb. 1809). 



Probably a large scandent shrub; branches stotrt, woody, prickles crooked. Leave,* 

 r, 8 in.; petiole terete, stout, very prickly ; leaflets su'u>essile, suddenly narrowed into 

 i l>road notched apex, base rounded, glossy on both surfaces, glabrous or pui 

 beneath, with many subparalld prominent arching nerves. Cymes 3-4 in., panicled, 

 \ery slender. Flowers T V in. diam., shortly pedicelled. Petals 4-5, valvate or .slightly 

 imbricate. Perhaps a form of Z tetrcispermum. 



VAK. tomentosum; branches, petioles, and inflorescence very tomentose. Assam, 

 Jenkins. 



8. Z. tetraspermum, W. rC- A. Prodr. 148; very prickly, glabrous 

 except the velvety cymes, leaflets 3-5 in. opposite 2-3 pairs large elliptic or 



