114 xxx. rutacEjE. [Zanthoxylvmi 



sufficiently large stigma. At the skirts of the more elevated forests 

 of the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, near Quilengue, Zenzas de 

 Queta, in female fl. middle of Dec. 1855. No. 4560. 



5. Z. citriodorum Welw. ms. in Herb. 



An erect glabrous shrub, with numerous stems and branches ; 

 twigs and petioles aculeate ; prickles of the twigs nearly straight 

 or a little curved. Leaves crowded near the ends of the twigs, 

 alternate, impari-pinnate, 3-4-jugate, 3 to 4£ in. long; petiole 

 rather short ; leaflets ovate, rather obtusely pointed or acuminate 

 at the apex, rounded at the base, pellucid-punctate, glossy and 

 deep-green above, greenish-pallid beneath, more or less crenulate 

 on the margin, 'the lateral ones opposite, subsessile, 5 to 2 in. long 

 by ^ to 1-jL in. broad, the upper pairs the larger. Infructescence 

 sub-terminal, spiciform-paniculate, 2 to 3 in. long, erect or nearly 

 so ; capsules on short or very short pedicels, pea-shaped, |- to | in. 

 long, seated at the apex of a very short gynophore, red, strongly 

 smelling of lemon-peel ; calyx inferior, with 4 rather obtuse seg- 

 ments ; pericarp dotted ; seed black, shining, sub-globose ; hilum 

 circular. The ovate-oblong petals, J in. long, in some cases persist 

 at the base of the fruit. 



Huilla. — In the elevated thickets of Morro de Lopollo ; fr. March 

 1860. No. 4561. A shrub 5 to 6 ft. high with very aromatic seeds. 

 Coll. Cakp. 304. 



The leaves not uncommonly are infested with a species of fungus. 

 Welwitsch found an infusion of the immature capsules highly tonic 

 and strengthening, and the drink had excellent effects on hysterical 

 women, both native and European. 



6. Z. Welwitschii Hiem, sp. n. 



An elegant tree, 15 to 20 ft. high; branches spreading, slender, 

 flexuous, with green lenticellate bark, glabrous up to the inflo- 

 rescence, unarmed. Leaves alternate or opposite, exstipulate, 

 digitately trifoliolate or occasionally bif oliolate or simple, glabrous ; 

 leaflets elliptical or somewhat oblong, narrowed or acuminate at 

 both ends or rounded or emarginate at the apex, glossy, pellucid- 

 punctate, 2 to 8 in. long by 1 to 3^ in. broad, thinly and rigidly 

 coriaceous; petiole § to 2£ in. long; petiolule ^ to | in. long. 

 Inflorescence axillary and terminal, £ to 3§ in. long, nearly simple 

 or alternately branched, puberulous ; flowers sessile or subsessile, 

 in little clusters arranged in a spicate manner, tetramerous, poly- 

 gamous ?, white or yellowish ; calyx small ; petals -J^ in. long, 

 valvate in sestivation, ovate-oblong; stamens 4, glabrous, ^ in. 

 long; filaments compressed, tapering upwards; anthers short, 

 2-celled ; disk inconspicuous (in the male flowers). Fruit-carpels 

 solitary, glabrous, unequally ovoid, rather more than 5 in. long 

 and rather less in breadth, 1-celled; seed solitary. 



GrOLUNGO Alto. — In the more elevated primitive forests of Serra de 

 Alto Queta, the flower-buds remaining in the same state from April to 

 Oct. ; fl. end of Oct. 1855 ; rather rare. No. 4554. Fr. March 1855, 

 sporadic. No. 4555. At tbe borders of the forests of Serra de Alto 

 Queta, sporadic, seen always in flower-bud from March to the end of 

 August ; April 1855 in flower and in flower-bud. No. 4556. 



