Zanthoxylum.} xxxni. HUTACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 495 



oblong very glossy coriaceous many-nerved margin waved and sinuate- 

 toothed, cymes axillary and terminal. Thwaites Enum. 69 : Beddome Flor. 

 tiyfoot. Anal. Gen. xlii. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; Kurg and the Nilghiri Mts., CEYLON, alt. 3-5000 ft., Walker. 



A stout climbing slirub ; prickles short, hooked. Leaves 4-7 in., glabrous; petiole 

 stout, straight, very prickly ; leaflets snbsessile, suddenly contracted to a rather long 

 obtuse notched tip, shining above and sinuate-toothed, especially in the Ceylon spe- 

 cimens, coriaceous, nerves numerous spreading. Panicles 2-3 in., axillary and ter- 

 minal, short, or rather large and spreading, when terminal densely tomentose, branches 

 alternate, flowers small, T V~s i n - diam. Petals 4, acute, valvate. Eipe carpels 

 2-4, \ in. diam., globose. Ceylon specimens have the brilliantly glossy leaves almost 

 black when dry and far more sinuate-toothed than the Kurg ones, which show a passage 

 to Z. Hamiltonianum, which has a very similar tip to the leaf. 



SECT. 2. Cymes terminal ; branches opposite. Flowers polypetalous. 

 Leaves 5-x -foliolate ; petiole not winged. Wood with a broad septate pith. 



i 9. Z. Rhetsa, DC. Prodr. i. 728 ; armed except the petioles and rarely 

 the cymes with short prickles, leaflets 8-20 pairs very oblique quite entire 

 glabrous, cymes terminal very large glabrous. W. & A. Prodr. 148 ; Grah. 

 Cat. Bomb. PI. 36 ; Dak. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 45 ; Thwaites Enum. 69 ; Bedel. 

 Flor. Sylvat. Anal. Gen. xli. Z. oblongum, Wall Cat. 1218. Fagara Rhetsa, 

 Hoxb. FL Ind. i. 417. ? F. Budrunga, Roxb. FL hid. i. 417, not of Wallich. 

 llheede Hort, Mai. v. t. 34. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, from Coromandel and the Concan southward; TAVOY, Gomez. 



A tree with corky bark and spreading leafy branches, prickles straight or incurved, 

 the old ones with a solid conic base. Leaves 1-1 ^ It., clustered at the ends of the 

 branches, equally or unequally pinnate; pet-'ole unarmed; leaflets opposite, 3-5 in., 

 with short partial petioles, recurved, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, 

 upper base rounded, lower very narrow and ending in the costa, nerves 10-12 on the 

 upper half, 2 fewer on the lower. Cymes sometimes lift, broad; branches opposite, 

 angled ; bracts minute, caducous. Flowers ^ in. diam., yellow, 4-merous. Petals 

 valvate. Ovary glabrous. Eipe carpels solitary, the size of a pea, tubercled. Seed 

 subglobose, blue-black. The unripe carpels taste of orange-peel, the seeds like black 

 pepper. Thwaites introduces this into his Enumeratio, but says, in Herb, that he 

 knows of but one tree, and that is in a garden. 



10. Z. Budrung-a, Wall. Cat, 1211 ; ]of DC. Prodr. i. 728; armed with 

 short incurved prickles, leaflets 5-10 pairs glabrous broadly crenate with, 

 large glands in the sinus, base very oblique, cymes terminal very large 



flabrous. Z. crenatum, Wall. Cat. 1216. 1 Fagara Budrunga, lioxb. FL 

 nd. i. 41 7. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, Kumaon, BlinJcworth (in Herb. Wallich'} ; Forests of SILHET, 

 the KHASIA MTS., CHITTAGONG, and MARTABAN. 



Apparently a tree, easily recognised by the large glands at the crenatures of the leaf- 

 lets. I am not satisfied as to the name this plant should bear ; the description is 

 founded on Wallich's specimens from the Calcutta Garden, named Z. Budrunga, Koxb , 

 and which should therefore be authentic, and which perfectly a^ree with those from 

 Silhet, &c. ; but Roxburgh describes in his " Flora Indica" (and figures in his drawings) 

 the leaflets as few, narrow, and quite entire; and neither he nor Wallich (in Carry's 

 edition of the " Flora Indica") makes allusion to the crenatures and glands. I find no 

 plant corresponding to either Roxburgh's Fagara Rhetsa or F. Budruuga in any Silhet. 

 Assam, or Bengal collection, and except in the fewer leaflets there is no differential cha- 

 racter given by Roxburgh between these two supposed species, though in his drawings 

 he figures the flowers of Budrunga as small, white, with stamens larger than the petals 

 (probably a sexual character) ; and those of Rhetsa as larger, yellowish, with stamens 

 shorter than the petals. On the o:her hand, there are plenty of Western Peninsula 



