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erect, round, unarmed, smooth. Leaves alternate, pinnate ; 
leaflets 2-3 paired, petiolulated, elliptic, slightly acuminate with 
a blunt point, acute at the base, punctulato-glandulose and 
crenulated along, the margin, somewhat coriaceous, smooth, 
shining, nerveless, parallelly veined : petiole terete, channelled 
above. Panicle terminal, composed of a number of partial cy- 
mules. Common peduncle angulose ; the branches alternate, 
rather long. Flowers dioecious, numerous, crowded, white, 
shortly pedicelled. Calyx minute ; lobes 3, rounded. Petals 
3, oval, obtuse, erect. $ FI. Stamens 3, alternating with the 
petals, hypogynous : filaments subulate, somewhat longer than 
the petals: anthers ovate, yellow. Ovary small, conical, 3-go- 
nal : style 1 , very short : stigma subcapitate. $ FI. Stamens 0. 
Ovary green, globose : style unilateral, arising from the base 
and incumbent over the ovary, length of the petals: stigma 
subcapitate, yellow. Fruit size of a black pepper, 1-celled, 1- 
seeded ; seed black, shining, attached and pendulous from the 
apex of one of the valves. 
The above description agrees very closely with that of X. 
acuminatum by Swartz, with the exception, that the filaments 
are described by him as shorter than the petals, whereas, in the 
specimens before me, I found them one-half longer. De Can- 
dolle is incorrect, where he states the leaves to be impari-pin- 
nate. When the capsule opens, the valves spread out, and 
from the seed, which resembles a black bead, retaining its con- 
nection to one of them, a very singular appearance is presented. 
7. Zanthoxylum Elephantiasis. JV 'irty-panicled 
Yellow-wood. 
Unarmed, leaves impari -pinnated 5-7-jugate, leaf- 
lets lanceolate unequal at the base crenulated glabrous 
pellucido-piiiictate, panicle terminal with the peduncle 
and its branches verrucose, flowers polygamous pen- 
tan drous. 
HAB. Near Mount Lebanon, and Moccha Wood, Port- 
Royal mountains. 
FL. September. 
Stem about 15-30 feet high, in the adult unarmed, of an 
ash colour, smooth : branches few, erect, at the extremities ri- 
moso-angulated. Leaves at the ends of the branchlets, impari- 
pinnate ; leaflets lanceolate, unequal at the base, blunt, the odd 
leaflet the largest, crenated, smooth, pellucido-punctulated : 
common petiole roundish, angulose, minutely glanduloso-punc- 
tate, glabrous : partial petiole short. Panicle terminal ; 
branches spreading horizontally, alternate, subtetragonal, verru- 
cose : branchlets dividing into two pedicels, each 1-flowered ; 
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