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2. T. lanceolata, Lam. ; DC. Prod. ii. 83. An entirely glabrous 
erect shrub or small tree, without prickles. Petioles 1-2 inches long, 
not flattened ; leaflets oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 inches long, acute, 
entire, waved at the edge, f-1 inch broad. Panicles many-flowered, 
axillary and terminal, thrysoid ; rachises not pilose ; pedicels short, 
flower-bud round. Petals oblong, inch long, imbricated. Stamens 8, in 
the male flowers exserted. Fruit the" size of a pea, 4-lobed, fleshy, 
gland-dotted. Vepris lanceolata, A. Juss. Zanthoxylum undulatum, 
Wall. Cat. No. 1208. Boscia undulata, Thunb. 
Mauritius, on the eastern slope of the Pouce. Also Cape and Mozambique. Patte 
de Ponies. 
3. T. paniculata, Lam. ; DC. Prod. ii. 83. An erect tree, 20-30 
feet high, without prickles, glabrous in all its parts. Petioles 1-1 \ inch 
long, subterete ; leaflets obovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, 1-lf 
inch broad, bright green. Flowers in copious deltoid terminal panicles, 
with spreading or ascending branches, the pedicels ■§— } inch long. 
Petals 4, greenish-white, inch long, oblong, much imbricated. 
Stamens 8, included. Capsule the size of a pea, 4-lobed. Yepris obo- 
vata, G. Don. 
Mauritius ; woods of the Pouce and Quartier Militaire. Rodriguez, not common, 
Balfour ! Endemic. 
# Citrus Hystrix, DC. Prod. i. 539, the Porcupine orange, a native 
of the East Indies, is used in Mauritius for hedges, and has become 
naturalised. It becomes when developed a tree 30 feet high, with 
branches furnished with erecto-patent spines, leaves densely dotted 
with an ovate, oblong or lanceolate blade, petiole with a broad leafy 
wing often larger than the blade truncate at the top cuneate at the 
base, flowers \ inch across in crowded sessile corymbs, and fruit 
round, orange-like, 2-3 inches diam. Citron Combara. 
C. medica, Linn. (The Citron) and C. vulgaris, Risso (the bitter or Seville 
orange), are mentioned as wild plants in Dupont’s Mauritian Catalogue, but of 
course are naturalised only. C. vulgaris, C. Limonum, C. Aurantium, and 
Triphasia trifoliata, DC. are in Dr. Balfour’s collection as subspontaneous in 
Rodriguez. 
Order XXII. SIMARUBEiE. 
Flowers regular, usually dioicous or polygamous. Sepals 3-5, im- 
bricated, joined at the very base. Petals 3-5, hypogynous. Disk 
annular. Stamens as many or twice as many as petals ; filaments 
free ; anthers oblong, 2-celled, slitting down the side. Ovary 2-5-lobed, 
or of 5 free carpels ; styles distinct ; stigmas capitate ; ovules usually 
solitary. Fruit dry or drupaceous. Seeds with or without albumen. — 
Trees or shrubs ; bark usually bitter ; leaves not dotted, exstipulate, 
usually compound; inflorescence mostly axillary. Distrib. Bound 
the world in the tropics. Species 110-120. 
Flowers trimerous, polygamo-dioicous 1 . Soulamea. 
Flowers pentamerous, hermaphrodite 2. Suriana. 
