Zanthoxylum.] xxxiii. hutace^. (J. D. Hooker.) 496 



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

 tootlied, cymes axillary and terminal. Thwaites Enum. 69 ; Beddome Flor. 

 Syhat. 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; petinle 

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

 obtuse notched tip, sl^ining 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, x^~\ in. diam. Petals '4, acute, valvate. Pipe 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. Samiltoniarmm, which has a very similar tip to the leaf. 



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

 Leaves S-x -f oliolate ; petiole not winged. Wood with a broad septate pith. 



9. Z. Rbetsa, 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 ; Bcdz. & Gii)s. Bomb. Fl. 4.5 ; Thwaites Enum. 69 ; Bedd. 

 Fhr. Sylvat. Anal. Gen. xlL Z. oblongum, Wall Cat. 1218. Fagara Rhetsa, 

 Rod). Fl. Ind. i. 417. ? F. Budrunga, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 417, not of Wallich,— 

 Rhee.de 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 l-lj ft., clustered at the fends of the 

 branches, equally or unequally pinnate ; petiole unarmed : leaflets opposite, 3-5 in., 

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

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

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

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

 valvate. Ovary glabrous. Pipe 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. Budrunga, Wall. Gat, 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 

 glabrous. Z. crenatum. Wall. Cat. 1216. ? Fagara Budrunga, Roxh. Fl. 

 Ind. i. 417. 



TROPICAL Himalaya, Kumaon, Blinkworth (in Serb. WaUich) ; Forests of Silhet, 

 ihe 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 .^. Budrunga, Roxb., 

 and which should therefore be authentic, and which perfectly agree with those from 

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

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

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

 plant coiTosponding to either Roxburgh's Fagara Bhetaa or F. Budrunga in any Silhet, 

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

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

 he figures the flowej-s of Budrunga as small, white, wilh stamens larger than the petals 

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

 shorter than the petals. On the other hand, there are plenty of Western Peninsula 



