Zanthoxylum flavum Vahl

Zanthoxylum flavum Vahl, Eclog. 3 : 48. 1807
Zanthoxylum cribrosum Spreng. Syst. 1 : 946. 1825.
Zanthoxylum floridanum Nutt. N. Am. Sylva 3 : 14. 1849.
Zanthoxylum caribaeum floridanum A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. II. 23: 225. 1888.
Fagara flava Krug & Urban ; Urban, Bot. Jahrb. 21 : 571. 1896.
An unarmed evergreen shrub or tree, sometimes attaining a height of 12 m., with smooth gray bark, the twigs, petioles, rachis, leaflets, and inflorescence minutely stellatecanescent when j-oung, often glabrate at maturity ; leaves odd-pinnate, 1-2.5 dm. long ; leaflets 3-11, commonly 5 or 7, rarely 1, subsessile or short-petioluled, oblong, ovate, lanceolate, elliptic, or elliptic-oblong, 3-10 cm. long, 1.5-5.5 cm. broad, rounded, obtuse, or obtuseacuminate at the apex, rounded, subtruncate, or somewhat acute at the base, crenate or nearly entire, frequently inequilateral, yellowish or grayish-green, the pellucid glands numerous ; petioles and rachis often stout, terete, flattish, or somewhat angled ; panicles terminal, 0.5-1.5 dm. long; staminate flowers : calyx 1-1.4 mm. broad, stellate-canescent ; sepals 5, rarely 4, triangular, acutish, 0.5 mm. long ; petals 5, rarely 4, elliptic-lanceolate or oblong-ovate, 2.5-3.8 mm. long, 1-1.7 mm. broad, greenish-white, reflexed when fully expanded ; stamens 5, rarely 4, about as long as the petals, the filaments slender, the anthers ovate, oval, oroblong-oval ; pistillate flowers: calyx about 1 . 5 mm . broad, stellate-canescent, the sepals triangular, acutish, 0.5 mm. long; petals oblong-ovate, oblong-oval, or ellipticlanceolate, 2.7-3.8 mm. long, 1-1.7 mm. broad, greenish-white, reflexed at maturity ; gynoecium 1-3-carpellary ; style or styles short ; follicles obovoid, brown at maturity, 5-9 mm. long ; seeds obovoid, occasionally globose-obovoid, 4-5 mm. long, 3-4 mm. broad, black, shining.
Type locality : Montserrat.
Distribution : Bermuda ; subtropical Florida ; Bahamas to St. Lucia.