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TII ALAMIFLORiE. 
A shrub, about 9 feet in height : branches erect, terete, (to- 
wards their extremities sub-angulose), glabrous, armed with 
sharp straight black spiny prickles. Leaves abruptly pinnated : 
leaflets in 4 pairs, petiolulated, oblongo-lanceolate, acute at the 
base, obtuse and subemarginate at the apex, very entire, sub- 
coriaceous, obscurely nerved, glabrous, shining above, minutely 
punctulated on both sides ; with the mid-rib of the leaflet oc- 
casionally armed with a spine-like prickle, : common petiole 
about 4 inches in length, sub-3-gonal, with the upper side plane 
and the edge raised (so as to be subalate ?) ; petiolule short, 
plane above. Racemes axillary, solitary, shorter than the leaf, 
subdivided ; divisions sub-simple : peduncle and its branches 
sub-3-gonal, glabrous ; pedicels very short, bearing a single 
small white flower, furnished at the base with a minute concave 
bracteole. Calyx minute, 3-partite ; segments roundish, acute. 
Petals 3, oval. Stamens 3, rather longer than the petals, 
spreading. Ovary globose, indistinctly 3-lobed : style simple, 
conical, short : stigma obtuse. 
5. * Zantlioxylum spinosum. Thorny Yellow-wood. 
Spinose, leaves pinnated 8-10-jugate, leaflets ses- 
sile ovate acuminate subentire with the petioles and 
branches thorny, cymes terminal, flowers triandrous. 
Swartz , FI. Ind. Occ. 574. 
HAB. Dry mountains. 
FL. ? 
A shrub, about 3 feet in height. Stem erect, thorny, branched. 
Thorns scattered, needle-shaped, an inch in length, standing 
out : those of the stem stronger and broader at the base. Leaf- 
lets shortly acuminate, emarginate, minutely crenulated, gla- 
brous, shining, with the mid-rib thorny : petiole a foot in length, 
thorny. Cyme terminal : flowers crowded, small, white. Calyx 
3-fid ; divisions ovate, acute. Petals 3. Filaments very short. 
Ovary 3-lobed, 3-fid : style 0 : stigmata 3, obtuse. — Swartz. 
6. Zantlioxylum acuminatum. Acuminated-leaved 
Yellow-wood. 
Unarmed, leaves abruptly-pinnate 2— 3-4-jugate, 
leaflets elliptic acuminate ohsoletely crenulated shin- 
ing coriaceous, cymes terminal, flowers dioecious, $ 
3-androus. 
Swartz , Fl. Ind. Occ. 575. — Swartz, Prod. 33. 
HAB. Near Tweedside House by the road side. 
FL. February. 
A shrubby tree, about 10-15 feet in height, with branches 
