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Zanthoxylum spinosum (L,.) Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1 : 574. 1797
Sapindus spinosus hSp. PI. ed. 2. 526. 1762.
Fagara emarginata Sw. Prodr. 33. 1788.
Fagara spinosa Sw. Prodr. 3i. 1788.
Zanthoxylum emarginatum Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1: 572. 1797.
Zanthoxylum lapindoides DC. Prodr. 1 : 728. 1824.
Tobinia coriacea Desv.; Hamilt. Prodr. 57. 1825.
Tobinia spnmsa Hamilt. Prodr. 57. 1S25.
Tobinia emarginata Hamilt. Prodr. 57. 1825.
? Zanthoxylum aculealum Macfad. Fl. Jam. 1 : 191. 1837.
Zanthoxylum coriaceum Walp.'Rep. 1 : 521. 1842. Not Z. coriaceum A. Rich. 1842.
/ aga> a sapindoides Krug & Urban ; Urban, Bot. Jahrb. 21 : 587. 1896.
Fagara Swartzii Krug & Urban ; Urban, Bot. Jahrb. 21 : 589. 1896.
A glabrous unarmed or densely prickly shrub, 1-3 m. high, or a tree with a grayish or grayish-brown bark, the branches, petioles, and rachis unarmed or armed with straight, slender brownish prickles, 3-S mm. long ; leaves equally pinnate or sometimes odd-pinnate, evergreen ; leaflets 4-12, sometimes more on young vigorous shoots, opposite or subopposite, narrowly ovate to nearly orbicular, 1.5-6.5 cm. long, 1-3.5 cm. broad, rounded, emarginate, or broadly and obtusely acuminate at the apex, obliquely rounded at the base, entire or slightly crenulate, shining above, paler and sometimes prickly on the prominent midrib beneath ; pellucid glands marginal ; petioles and rachis stout, grooved ; inflorescence terminal or sometimes axillary; staminate flowers: cal}"x 1-1.3 mm. broad; sepals 3, triangular or semiovate, 0.5-0.6 mm. long, glabrous ; petals 3, oval to broadly oval, 2.4-3 mm. long, 1.6-2 mm. broad, white; stamens 3, longer than the petals; anthers ovate or elliptic ; pistillate flowers: calyx 1.2-1.3 mm. broad; sepals 3, triangular to semioval, 0.5-0.6 mm. long, glabrous ; petals 3, oval, white ; gynoecium 3-carpellary ; follicles 3, of which one or two are usually abortive, ovoid, 6-7 mm. long, brown, the surface often bearing a few, scattered, elevated glands ; seeds ovoid, 4.5-5.5 mm. long, smooth, black, shining.
Type locality : Jamaica.
Distribution : Jamaica.