40 rutacejs. \ZantJioxylum. 
mostly only one maturing. Fagara heterophylla, Lam . Encycl. ii. 
p. 445. 
Mauritius, in littoral woods of Grandport, Flacq, etc. Also Bourbon. 
2. Z. paniculatum, Balf.fil. A tree, with stout terete branchlets, 
armed with a few hooked black prickles. Bud-scales glutinous. Leaves 
crowded near the top of the branchlets, downy on the short unarmed 
petiole and rachis and midrib beneath, G-8 in. long; leaflets 15-19, 
oblong, obtuse, sessile, subcoriaceous, glossy above, paler beneath, 
with raised veins, unequally cordate at the base. Panicle shorter than 
the leaves,, subsessile ; branches short, spreading, downy ; pedicels very 
short. Calyx inch long, of 4 deltoid sepals. Corolla and 
stamens not seen. Capsule the size of a small pea, splitting down to 
the base into two valves, dark brown, glabrous, strongly minutely tuber- 
cled, furnished with a very short stalk. 
Rodriguez, only in Anse Ouitoze, Balfour ! Endemic. Near Z. Budrunga 
and Avicenna of Tropical Asia. Bois Pasuer. 
3. TODDALIA, Juss. 
Flowers polygamous. Sepals 4-5, minute. Petals 4-5, valvate or 
imbricate. Stamens as many or twice as many as petals ; filaments 
filiform ; anthers oblong. Disk thin. Ovary 4-5-celled ; stigma peltate, 
subsessile. Fruit hard, coriaceous, permanently syncarpous, globose. — 
Erect trees or climbers ; leaflets ternate, shining, coriaceous, venu- 
lose, gland-dotted, with a wavy vein within the edge ; flowers copious, 
small, in dense panicles. Distrib. Species 6-8, spread through the 
tropics of the Old World and Cape. 
Subgenus Toddalia proper. Petals valvate. Stamens as 
many as petals 1. T. aculeata. 
Subgenus Vepris. Petals imbricate. Stamens twice as 
many as petals. 
Stamens exserted 2. T. lanceolata. 
Stamens included 3. T. paniculata. 
1. T. aculeata, Pers. ; DC. Prod. ii. 83. A climbing shrub, with 
branches often armed with hooked prickles. Petioles an inch long, 
flattened upwards ; leaflets oblanceolate-oblong, acute, i-1 inch 
broad, entire or, obscurely crenate ; edge wrinkled. Panicles shorter 
than the leaves, copious, many-flowered, with pilose rachises ; flowers 
crowded towards the end of branchlets ; pedicels inch. Petals 
i inch, lanceolate, nearly valvate. Stamens as many as the petals, 
exserted. Fruit orange-yellow, the size of a pea, 4-5-lobed, pellucid 
with fragrant oil vesicles. T. floribunda, Vahl. T. lanceolata, Lam. ; 
DC. Prod. loc. cit. 
Mauritius, frequent in forests, especially of the Pouce range. Rodriguez, 
Balfour ! T. lanceolata is a mere form, with narrow leaves and unarmed branches. 
Common through tropical Asia, but not African. Also Bourbon. Bambara or Bois 
Patte de Poule. 
