Zanthoxylum elegantissimum (Engl.) P. Wilson

Zanthoxylum elegantissimum (Engler) P. Wilson & Bull. Torrey Club 37 : 85. 1910. Fagara elegantissinia Engler, Bot. Jahrb. 21 : Beibl. 54 : 25. 1896.
A nearly glabrous loosely-branched shrub, with slender vine-like twigs more or less armed with small, compressed, reflexed prickles 1 mm. long; leaves odd-pinnate, 6-15 cm. long; leaflets 25-61, oblong or oblong-oval, 4-9 mm. long, 3-5 mm. broad, sessile, rounded and minutely serrulate or nearly entire at the apex, truncate or subtruncate at the base ; rachis and petioles grooved above, narrowly winged, more or less armed with small, compressed prickles; panicles terminal, many times compound, brownish-pilose, their secondary branches few-flowered ; pedicels short, nearly equaling the flowers ; staminate flowers : sepals 4, ovate, acute ; petals 4, obovate-oblong, 1 mm. long ; stamens 4, short ; follicles usually solitary, sometimes in pairs, globose, 4 mm. in diameter, brownish ; seeds globose, 3 mm. in diameter, black, shining.
Type locality : Chiconquiaco, Vera Cruz. Distribution : State of Vera Cruz.