Evodia.] 
KUTACEjE. 
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1. E. obtusifolia, DG. Prod. i. 724. A glabrous erect shrub, 
6-12 feet high. Leaflets ternate, subsessile, subcoriaceous, obovate- 
oblong, cuneate at the base, 3-5 inches long, obtuse, sometimes emar- 
ginate, penninerved, minutely gland-dotted, side ones rather oblique ; 
petiole 1-2 inches long. Panicles sessile, as long as the petiole; 
branches spreading; pedicels very short. Flower hermaphrodite. 
Calyx minute, spreading. Petals deltoid, \ inch long. Stamens in- 
cluded. Cocci i inch long, 1-4 maturing, splitting from the top to the 
bottom like a bivalve shell, with a single shining black pendulous 
seed. Zanthoxylum obtusifolium, G. Don, non Poir. 
Mauritius; mountains of Grand Bassin and Nouvelle Decouverte. Endemic. 
Patte de Poule (like Toddalia). 
2. E. ? elseodendroides, Baker. A tree, glabrous in all its parts, 
with thick straight branches. Leaves opposite, oblong, firm, obtuse, 
entire, 4-5 inches long, cuneate at base ; main veins 8-9-jugate, spread- 
ing, connected by distinct intramarginal arches ; no glandular dots ; 
petiole under \ inch long, thick, channelled. Flowers campanulate, 
in peduncled panicles shorter than the leaves ; branches spreading ; 
pedicels very short. Calyx minute, with 4 deltoid teeth. Petals 4, 
inch long, deltoid. Disk thick. Stamens 4, inserted outside the disk ; 
flattened filament, as long as the anther. Ovary 4-lobed, discoid, pilose ; 
ovules 2 in a cell ; styles 4, with capitate stigmas. Fruit unknown. 
Mauritius, Captain Carmichael ! (One specimen in Kew herbarium from R. 
Brown, and a second from Grand Bassin in the collection of the late Judge Black- 
bum). Habit of Elceodendron orientale. Endemic. 
2. ZANTHOXYLUM, Linn. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Sepals 4, minute, spreading, 
imbricate. Petals 4, imbricated. Disk thin. Stamens hypogynous 1 * * * 5 , 
as many as the petals ; filaments short ; anthers oblong. Carpels 4, 
1-celled ; styles connate or free ; stigmas capitate. Fruit in our 
plants just like that of Evodia . — Trees or shrubs, often prickly, with 
imparipinnate leaves and small white flowers in copious panicles, the 
fruit aromatic or pungent, with a gland-dotted pericarp. Disteib. 
Belts the world in the tropics. Species 80. 
Leaflets of mature leaves 9—11, acute .....,.l, Z, hbteroph yllum. 
Leaflets of mature leaves 15-19, obtuse 2. Z, paniculatum. 
1. Z. heterophyllum, Smith ; DC. Prod. i. 726. A tree, glabrous 
in all its parts, with branches and leaf-rachises often armed with hard 
hooked spines. Leaves petioled, the young ones remarkably different 
from the old ones, with a rachis a foot long, and 40-60-jugate oblono- 
firm veined gland-dotted leaflets, inch long. Old leaves unarmed, 
their leaflets only 4-5 -jugate, oblong, sessile, acute, 1-3 inches long, the 
end one close to the uppermost pair. Panicles peduncled, shorter than 
the leaves ; branches ascending ; pedicels very short. Petals inch lony 
oblong, whitish. Cocci the size of a pea, splitting down to the base, 
