Taddalia.] xxxiu. RUTACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 497 



9. TODDAZ.ZA, Juss. 



Usually subscandent or sarmentose prickly shrubs. Leaves alternate, 

 1-o-foliolate ; leaflets sessile. Flowers small, in axillary or terminal cymes 

 or panicles, unisexual. Calyx short, 2-5-lobed or -parted. Petals 2-5, im- 

 bricate or valvate. Stamens 2, 4, 5 (or 8 with the alternate imperfect), 

 imperfect or in the ? flower, inserted at the base of a short or long or in- 

 conspicuous disk. Ovary ovoid oblong or globose, rudimentary or 4-lobed 

 in the flower, 2-7-(rarely 1-) celled; style short or 0, stigma capitate; 

 ovules 2, superposed or collateral in each cell. Fruit subglobose, or lobed, 

 coriaceous or fleshy, 2-7-celled; cells 1- rarely 2-seeded. Seeds angled, reni- 

 fprm, testa coriaceous, albumen fleshy ; embryo curved, terete, cotyledons 

 linear or oblong. DISTRIB. About 8 species, natives of tropical and sub- 

 tropical Asia, Africa and Australia, 



1. T. aculeata, Pers. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 83 ; prickly, leaflets sessile elliptic 

 obovate oblong or lanceolate creiiulate, fruit 3-7-celled. W. & A. Prodr. 

 149 ; Thwaites Enum. 69 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 37 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 Flor. 46 ; Wight III. t. 66 ; Wall Cat. 9042; Bedd.Flor. Sylvat. Anal. Gen. 

 xlii. t. vi. f. 4. T. asiatica, Lamk. Diet. vii. 693 ; III. ii. 116. T. nitida, Lamk. 

 EL t. 139, f. 1. 1 T. angustifolia, Lamk Diet. I.e. 694. T. angustifolia, Miq. 

 in Plant. Hohen. 470. T. rubricaulis, Wttld. T. floribunda, Wall. PI. An. 

 Ear. iii. p. 37. Zanthoxylon nitidum, Wall. Cat. 1207, from China (not of 

 DC.}. Z. floribundum, Wall. Cat. 1206 ; PI. As. Ear. iii. t. 232. Scopoli'a 

 aculeata, Sm. Ic. ined. sub t. 34; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1 616. Limonia oligandra, 

 Dalz. in Kew Journ. Bot. ii. 258. Paullinia asiatica, Linn. Sp. PI. 524. 

 Burm. Flor. Zeyl 58, t. 24 ; Eheede Hort. Mai v. 81, t. 41. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kumaon eastwards to Bhotan, ascending to 5000 ft. ; 

 KHASIA MTS., ascending to 6000 ft., and throughout the WESTERN PENINSULA and 

 CEYLON. DISTRIB. Sumatra, Java, China, the Philippine Islands. 



A rambling sarmentose shrub, prickly or not. Leaflets sessile, 1-3 by -1 in., gla- 

 brous, rounded, narrowed or subacute at the tip, which is acute obtuse 'or notched, 

 many-nerved, green on both surfaces, coriaceous. Cymes axillary, compressed, longer 

 or shorter than the leaves. Flowers ^ in. diam., white. Calyx glandular. Petals 5, 

 imbricate. /Stamens not exceeding the petals. Ovary usually 5-celled ; style short, 

 stigma 5-lobed ; ovules 2, superposed in each cell. Fruit globose, size of a large pea, 

 3-5-grooved, orange-coloured, 3-5-celled. Seeds solitary in each cell. Whole plant hot 

 and pungent. 



2. T. bilocularis, W. & A. Prodr. 149 ; unarmed, leaflets elliptic-lan- 

 ceolate acuminate quite entire, tip notched, flowers 2-3-merous, fruit 2-celled. 

 Bedd. Flor. Sylvat.iS&L ; Icones, t. 167. Dipetalum biloculare, Dalz. in Kew 

 Journ. Bot. ii. 38. 



WESTERN PENINSULA; Courtallum, Wight; Anamallay forests, alt. 2500-3000 ft., 

 Beddome; Concan and Canara, Dalzell. 



A tree (Beddome), trunk often 3 ft. in girth, foliage dense, always unarmed. Leaflets 

 6-10, sessile or petioled, nerved as in the other species, apparently quite entire. Pjalx 

 2-3, slightly imbricate. St'gma large, peltate. Fruit as large as a cherry. I have seen, 

 but two specimens, both Wight's, and in fruit only. I follow Dalzell in'considering bis 

 Dipetalum to be the same ; he seems to have found it in a very early state, and says 

 the stamens were 6, and inflorescence terminal, which latter is not the case in Wight's 

 specimens; Beddome, however, describes the inflorescence as terminal or from the 

 upper axils, and' much shorter than the petiole. Beddome further describes it as a 

 beautiful tree of considerable size, with dense dark-green foliage; he found the females 

 in March, but not the males ; 3-petaled flowers were much more common than 

 2-petaled. 



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