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1. EVODIA Forst, 



Trees. Leaves glabrous. Flowers small, UDisexual, in axillary 

 cymes. Sepals 4-5. Petals 4-5. Stamens 4-5 at base o£ disk. 

 Disk sinuate. Ovary pubescent, 4-5 lobed, 4-5-celled ; cells 2-ovuled. 

 Stigma 4-lobed. Fruit capsular^ consisting of 4 coriaceous, 3-valved, 

 1 -seeded cocci, endocarp horny, elastically separable, 2-lobed. Seeds 

 oblong, testa crustaceous. Albumen fleshy, embryo straight, cotyledons 

 <Gvate. 



E. Roxburghiana, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 59 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 487 ; tri- 

 phylla^ Bedd. Fl. Sylv. ; Anal. Gen. XLI. t. 6. £. 2. Xanthoxyhn tri- 

 phijllumjDailz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 45. Kabale, K. 



Khasia mountains, E. & W. Peninsulas, and Ceylon, throughout the 

 Konkan and Kanara ghats, in moist situations from the sea level up 

 to 4000 feet elevation in both evergreen and deciduous forests. Flowers 

 and fruits usually during the hot season about March ; also during the 

 rainy season, Sept. Wood greyish-brown, moderately hard, weighs 51 

 lbs. to the cabicft. — Gamble. The size of the leaflets varies considerably^ 

 those of N. Kanara specimens being usually larger and on shorter 

 |)etiolules than in Konkan Ghdt and Malay Archipelagian specimens. 



2. ZANTHOXYLUM, Linn, 



Trees or scandent shrubs^ often prickly. Leaves alternate with the 

 leaflets, often oblique, punctate, entire or crenate. Flowers small, often 

 unisexual, in axillary or terminal cymes. Calyx 3-8-fid. Petals 3-5. 

 Stamens 3-5, hypogynous or reduced to scales in the fern. fl. Ovary 

 rudimentary in the male, of 1-5 oblique carpels in the female flower ; 

 styles sublateral, free or connate above, stigma capitate ; ovules 2 in 

 each celL Fruit of 1-5, globose 1-seeded, dehiscent carpels. Seed 

 oblong or globose, often hanging out of the carpel ; testa black, shining. 

 Albumen fleshy ; embryo axile ; cotyledons flat, radicle very short. 



Shrub. Leaves trifoliate. Cymes axillary ... 1^ Z, ovalifoUum, 

 Tree. Leaflets 8-20-pairs. Cymes terminal ... 2. Z, Rhetsa> 



1. Z. ovalifolium, Wgt. 111. 169 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 492 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 Anal. Gen. 42. Armadal, armadalu, K. ; Armarlu, Kon. 



Khasia mountains, E. & W. Peninsulas ; Assam and the Mishmi 

 mountains, common in the evergreen forests of the Sirsi and Siddapore 

 sub-diyisions of N. Kanara. Flowers during Feb .-Mar. Fruit ripe cold 

 season. A large erect shrub; branches covered with white lenfci eels. Bark 

 smooth, brown, covered with scattered short prickles, springing from a 

 broad base, inner bark whitish. Wood hard, white. Fruit used in 

 curries. 



2. Z. Rhetsa, DC. Prod. 1. 728 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 495 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 45 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. 41. TirpJiuh thriphal, tisul, 

 cochli, M. ; Jummina^ sessal^ K. ; PepuUy H. 



Western Peninsula from the Konkan southwards. In N. Kanara it 

 is common in some of the evergreen forests from the coast inland and 

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