ii34 RUT AC EM. [^anthoxilum. 



Ovules 2 in each cell (solitary in Murraya 

 Kmnigii). 



Style long 5. Murkata. 



Style short 6. Clausena. 



Armed with axillary spines. 



One ovule in each cell, leaf-rachises winged 7. Limonia, 



Ovules numerous in each cell, leaf-rachises 

 not winged. 



Pericarp leathery . . . • . 8. Citrus, 



Pericarp woody. 



Leaves imparipinnate, stamens 10-12 . 9. Feronia. 



Leaves 3-foliolate, stamens many . . 10. JEgle. 



ZANTHOXYLUM, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. lud. i, 492. 



Shrubs or trees, often armed with stout prickles. Leaves alternate 

 "3-foliolate or unequally pinnate. Flowers small, in axillary or termi- 

 nal peduncled cymes, often unisexual. Calyx 3-8-fid, rarely 0. 

 Petals 3-5 or 0,^ imbricate or induplicate-valvate. Dish small or 

 obscure. Stamens 8-8, or reduced to scales in the fern, flower. 

 Ovary rudimentary in the male flower, in the fern, flower of 1-5 

 oblique 1- celled carpels ; styles sublateral, free or connate above ; 

 stigma capitate ; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit of 1-5 globose coria- 

 ceous or fleshy 1-seeded ventrally dehiscing carpels. Seeds with bony 

 or crustaceous, blue 'or black, shining testa ; albumen fleshy.— Species 

 all tropical or subtropical. 



Z. alatum, Roxh.Hort. Beng.72; Fl. Ind. m, 768; F.B. I. i., 493 f 

 Brand. For. Fl. 47 ; Walt E. D. Z. hostile, Wall {in part) : Boyle III. 157. 

 Vern. Tejbal. 



A shrub or small tree, all parts pungently aromatic. Prickles on trunk 

 and branches often vertically flat, the older with a corky base. Leaves 

 unequally pinnate ; Zea^eis2-6pairs, lanceolate, glabrous beneath ; petiole 

 and rachis usually winged, the petiole with 2 stipular prickles at the 

 base. Flowers small, yellow, in lax panicles, 2-6 in, long, glabrous or 

 pubescent. Calyx with 6-8 acute segments. Petals 0. Stamens 6-8. 

 Eipe carpeZsl-3, reniform or ovoid, of the size of a small pea when fresh 

 reddish, tubercled. 



Dehra Dun. Distrib.: Hot valleys of the outer Himalaya from the 

 Indus to Bhutan, also on the Khasia Hills. Flowers April to June, and 

 the fruit ripens August to October. The pungent fruit, resembling that 

 of coriander, is used medicinally, and as a condiment, also when crushed 

 for purifying water . Walking sticks are manufactured from the branches, 

 and tooth-sticks from the twigs. The bark is used for intoxicating fish. 



