| + | Zanthoxylum alatum, Roxbg. Shrub or small tree, glabrous, with stout spreading prickles in pairs: lvs. 3-8 in. long, with conspicuously winged sometimes prickly rachis; lfts. 5-11, elliptic-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, rarely obovate-oblong, acuminate, finely serrulate or nearly entire, 1 1/2 - 5 in. long, the terminal one the largest: fls. in short lateral panicles, 1 – 2 1/2 in. long, from the axils of last year's branches: fr. red, warty. Himalayas. Var. planispinum, Rehd. & Wilson (Z. planispinum, Sieb. &Zucc.). Lfts.3-5, otherwise like the type. June; fr. in Sept. China, Korea, Japan. S.I.F. 2:34. R.H. 1913, p. 17. G. 35:213.—Only the variety seems to be cult. |