180 RUTACER. | Zanthoxylon. 
nate, —— beneath ; panicles small and contracted, puberu- 
lous, usually much shorter than the petiole or nearly as long; 
flowers sank me shortly pedicelled ; petals 4, linear-oblong, blunt, 
rather coriaceous ; carpels not seen. 
Has. —Tenasserim. 
2. E. triphylla, DC.; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 487 (£. gracilis, 
—A meagre Peeder shrub, 3-5 ft. tage the branchlets quite _ 
terete, the young shoots puberulous ; leaves 3- and occasionally — 
1-foliolate, opposite and almost alternate on the same plant, 
glabrous, on an 1-4 in. long hardly Ser ee petiole; leaflets 
sense or broadly lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, shortly = 
petioluled, 34-4 and up to 5 to 7 in. long, chartaceous; panicles ; 
small and contracted, much shorter than the petioles, puberulous, : 
glabrescent ; flowers small, whitish, on short but slender puberu- 
lous pedicels ; petals 4, oblong-lanceolate, acute ; ovary puberulous, 
4-celled ; carpels usually 4, 2-3 lin. long, do tted, glabrous ; seeds 
en size of a pepper-kernel, glossy Pick a or owirick bins kk. 
aB.—Frequent in the damp hill-forests, entering the drier ones, from 
Matias down to Tenasserim, at 3,000 to 5,000 ft. elevation. Fl. Febr.-March ; 
Fr. Apr.-May.—s.— SS. = 
ReMaRrxKs.— Wood light, pale pinkish, close-grained, straight-fibrous, with 
silvery lustre 
3. KE, Roxbier ghiana, ae H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 487 (2. whee Se 
ian Sylv. Mad= 41, t. 6, £. 3)—An evergreen tree (25—30 a 
8—12 4+ 24—3), the tender parts puberulous ; leaves ¢ roliolate, ee 
on a 2 to 8 in. long petiole, glabrous ; leaflets lanceolate or oblong- 
lanceolate, usually narrowed at base, 4-6 in. long, on a shorter or 
longer petiolule, shortly acuminate, membranous, glaucous bluish- 
green, usually glossy above ; panicles corymbose, divaricate, as long 
or longer than the petioles, ‘greenish-puberulous ; flowers yellowish 
white, small, on short but slender puberulous ‘pedicels ; ; petals 4, 
3 lin. long or a little longer; ovary hirsute; stamens glabrous, 
exserted ; carpels usually 4, when ripe about 2 lin. long, wrinkled 
and dotted, glabrous ; seeds the size of a pete tee glossy, 
black or bluish -black. 
Has.—Tropical forests of Tenasserim and the Andamans. 
ZANTHOXYLON, L. 
Flowers more or less completely unisexual. Calyx 3- 5-lobed. 
Petals. 3-5, imbricate or rarely valvate, or wanting. Disk small 
or. ‘obsolete. ‘Stamens in males 3-5, in females none or reduced 
to staminodes. Ovary in males rudimentary or of 3-5 style- 
ices deers females of 1-5 distinct 2-ov uled carpels. Fruit — 
