196 CHINESE ECONOMIC TREES 



glandular, glabrescent, short stalked, 8-13 cm. long. Inflorescence broad, 

 10-30 cm. across, many flowered. Flowers small, short stalked; sepals, 

 petals and stamens 5. Fruit 1-3, punctate; seeds 1 to each carpel, black. 



Hupeh and Szechuan. 



All parts of this tree exhale an astringent, aromatic odor when 

 bruised. 



Zanthoxylum piperitum DeCandole. 



Shrub or small tree. Prickles slender ascending, in pairs. Leaves 

 to 15 cm. long with 11-19 leaflets; leaflets ovate to oblong-ovate, 

 emarginate at the apex, remotely toothed; teeth glandular at the base. 

 Flowers after the leaves on short lateral branches, corymbose, to 4 cm. 

 across. Fruits reddish, glandular dotted. 



N. China, Korea & Japan. 



The seeds, leaves and inner bark are employed as spices. The wood 

 is yellow grained, heavy and hard, used for making utensils. 



Zanthoxylum bungei Planchon. 



Pepper Bush. (Hua Chiao.) 



A shrub, cultivated for its fruits, which are used as condiments. 

 Hupeh, Szechuan, Shensi and Chihli. 

 There are several other species, all shrubby, in this country. 



SIMARUBACEAE 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, pinnate or simple. 

 Inflorescence axillary; flowers unisexual, regular, usually small; sepals 

 3-5, more or less connate; petals 3-5, rarely absent; stamens as many as 

 or twice as many as the petals; filaments free, naked, or with a scale, 

 inserted at the base of the disk; ovary superior, 1-6 celled, composed of 

 distinct or more or less united carpels, rarely entire; ovules 1 to several 

 in each cell. Fruit drupe-like or a berry, or a samara. 



About 28 genera and 140 species in the tropics and the subtropical 

 regions. The 2 following genera are the only arborescent representatives 

 of the family in China. 



