Lime Pricklyash

Zanthoxylum fagara (L.) Sargent, Garden & Forest 3 : 186. 1890.
Schinus Fagara L. Sp. PI. 389. 1753. Fagara Plerota L. Syst. ed. 10. 897. 1759. Fagara leniiscifolia H. & B.; Willd. Emim. 165. 1809. Zanthoxylum Pterota H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 3. 1823. ? Zanthoxylum marginatum Sesse & Moe. Fl. Mex. ed. 2. 231. 1894. ■ Fagara Fagara Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 675. 1903.
An evergreen shrub or tree, sometimes attaining a height of 10 m., with a slender often reclining trunk, a light-gray bark, the frequently zigzag branchlets usually armed with sharp-hooked stipular prickles ; twigs, petioles, rachis, and inflorescence more or less puberulent; leaves odd-pinnate, 2.5-11 cm. long; leaflets 5-13, obovate, oblong-obovate, oval, or occasionally elliptic or suborbicular, 0.7-2.5 cm. long, 0.5-1.8 cm. broad, occasionally longer and broader on the young shoots, rounded or emarginate at the apex, cuneate or rarely rounded at the base, crenulate, the teeth usually above the middle, or rarely entire, glandular, the glands chiefly below the crenatures, sessile or short-petioluled, bright-green and lustrous above, paler beneath, the rachis and petioles grooved, winged ; inflorescence lateral, axillary, short-spicate, usually 1-2 cm. long ; staminate flowers : calyx 1-1.5 mm. broad, glabrous ; sepals 4, triangular to triangular-ovate, acute or sometimes rounded at the apex, 0.4-0.5 mm. long ; petals 4, obovate or oblong-obovate, 2.5-3 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. broad, rounded or obtuse at the apex, yellowish-green ; stamens 4, longer than the petals, the filaments filiform-subulate ; anthers oval, ovate, or suborbicular ; pistillate flowers : calyx 0.9-1 mm. broad, glabrous, the sepals triangular or triangular-ovate, 0.3-0.5 mm. long ; petals ovate or sometimes oblong-ovate, 2 mm. long, 1-1.4 mm. broad, yellowish-green ; gynoecium 2or 3-, sometimes 4-carpellary ; ovaries sessile ; styles slender, exserted ; follicles globose or globose-obovoid, 3.5-4 mm. in diameter ; seeds globose or globoseobovoid, 2.8-3.5 mm. in diameter, black, shining.-
Type locality : Jamaica.
Distribution: Florida, Texas, Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies; also in South America.