Part 3, 1911] RUTACEAE 177 



10-20 mm. long, 5-13 mm. broad ; anthers oblong ; carpels somewhat compressed, sulcate, 



brownish; seeds "ovate, slightly curved, 3.5-4 mm. long, tuberculate. " 



Type locality : Sierra de Luquillo, Porto Rico. 

 Distribution : Eastern Porto Rico. 



3- Ravenia simplicifolia Wright, MS., sp. nov. 



Ravenia spectabilis simplicifolia Wright ; Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 48, hyponym. 1866. 



A shrub about 2.5 m. tall ; leaves simple, oblong to elliptic or obovate, 3-6.5 cm. long, 

 1-3 cm. broad, rounded or acute and often mucronate at the apex, acute or cuneate at the 

 base, glandular-punctate, lustrous on both surfaces, petioled, the petioles 3-10 cm. long; 

 inflorescence few-flowered; sepals densely glandular, very unequal, the two outer narrowly 

 ovate to broadly ovate, 9-11 mm. long, 5-9 mm. broad, the three inner concave, broadly 

 ovate to nearly oval, 3-4 mm. long, 2.5-3.5 mm. broad, thin-margined, ciliate ; corolla deep- 

 pink or rose, glandular, the tube cylindric, 0.9-1.7 cm. long, the lobes oblong to elliptic or 

 somewhat obovate, 10-14 mm. long, 6-S mm. broad. 



Type collected in the province of Oriente, Cuba, Charles Wright 2179 (Grav Herbarium ); also 

 collected in Oriente in 1910,/. A . Shafcr 34S1 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). The type sheet bears 

 labels representing two collections, but there is only one specimen. 



4. Ravenia spectabilis (Lindl.) Planch.; Griseb. Mem. Am. 

 Acad. II. 8 : 170. 1860. 



Lemonia spectabilis Lindl. Bot. Reg. 26 : pi. 59. 1840. 



A shrub with grayish or grayish-brown twigs ; bark of the older branches often corky 

 more or less ridged and grooved ; petioles 0.5-2.5 cm. long ; leaves digitately 3-foliolate ; 

 leaflets linear-oblong to elliptic, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 2-6.5 cm. long, 6-22 mm. broad, 

 obtuse or somewhat acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, sessile or short-petioluled, 

 glandular-punctate; inflorescence few-flowered ; sepals densely glandular, unequal, the two 

 outer herbaceous, spreading, elliptic to oval or ovate, 12-15 mm. long, 8-10 mm. broad, the 

 three inner appressed to the tube of the corolla, concave, oval or orbicular, not ciliate, 7-10 

 mm. long, 6.5-9.5 mm. broad, paler than theouter; corolla purplish-red or pinkish, densely 

 glandular, the tube cylindric, 0.8-1.5 cm. long, the lobes oblong to oval, 1-2 cm. long, 5-13 

 mm. broad; seeds irregularly tetrahedral, 2.5-3.6 mm. long, 1.8-2.4 mm. broad, rounded on 

 the back, tuberculate, brownish. 



Type locality : Cuba. 



Distribution: Cuba, Haiti, and Guadeloupe ; (Jamaica?). 



Illustrations : Bot. Reg. 26 : pi. 59 ; Paxton's Bot. Mag. 14 : opp. 73 ; Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berlin 

 2 : pi. 13, f. 1-6. 



5. ZANTHOXYLUM* (Catesby) L. Sp. PI. 270. 1753. 



Pier ota P. Br. Hist. Jam. 146. 1756. 



Fa«ara L. Syst. ed. 10. 897. 1759. 



Curtisia Schreb. (Gen. 199, hyponym. 1789) ; J. F. Gmel. Svst. Nat. 2 : 498. 1791. Not Cuilisia 



Ait. 1789. 

 ( >< hro i vhim Schreb. (Gen. 826, hyponym. 1791) ; J. St. Hil. Expos. Fam. 2 : 259. 1805. 

 Kampmania Raf. Med. Rep. II. 5: 352. 1808. 

 Tenorea Raf. Specchio 1 : 192. 1814. 

 Pseudopetalon Raf. Fl. Ludov. 107. 1817. 

 Tobinig. Desv.; Hamilt. Prodr. 56. 1825. 



Pcnlanome Moc. & Sesse ; DC. Prodr. 1 : 725, as synonym. 1825. 

 Dimeium Raf. Med. Bot. 2 : 114. 1830. 

 Herculium Raf. Med. Bot. 2 : 114. 1830. 

 Thyla* Kaf. Med. Bot. 2 : 114. 1830. 

 Mioplrila Raf. Am. Man. Mulb. 37. 1839. 



Shrubs or trees often prickly, with acid, aromatic bark, the trunk unarmed, or armed, 

 especially near the base, with wart-like, helmet-shaped, or pyramidal hard-corky cushions, 

 occasionally confluent into short ridges. Leaves alternate, equally pinnate, odd-pinnate, or 

 unifoliolate, evergreen or deciduous, unarmed or armed, mostly with stipular prickles; 

 leaflets opposite or alternate, frequently inequilateral, crenulate or entire, glandular, the 

 glands pellucid or sometimes opaque, the petioles and rachis terete or sometimes angled, 



*Also spelled Xanihoxylon, Xanthoxylum, or Zanthoxylon, here regarded as variant 

 spellings. 



