Zanthoxylum foliolosum J. D. Smith

Zanthoxylum foliolosum Donn. Smith. Bot. Gaz. 18: 1. 1893
Fagara foliolosa Engler, in E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 3* : 118. 1896.
A glabrous scandent shrub with slender, brownish branches armed with short, sharp, recurved, brownish prickles ; leaves odd-pinnate, 5-12.5 cm. long ; leaflets 15-31, the lateral ones oblong to oblong-ovate or oval, sessile or subsessile, 0.5-1.9 cm. long, 3-10 mm. broad, rounded at the apex, truncate and biglandular at the base, coriaceous, the margin crenulate ; pellucid glands few, rather large, situated at the sinuses ; petioles about 1-1.5 cm. long, the rachis grooved and narrowly winged, usually armed with short recurved prickles ; panicles lateral, axillary, few-flowered; flowers not seen ; sepals 4; follicles one or two, when solitary usually accompanied by an abortive carpel, globose or subglobose, 5-7 mm. in diameter, verrucose-glandular, brownish, the valves thick ; seeds subglobose, 4-4.2 mm. in diameter, compressed, black, shining, wrinkled.
Type locality : San Rafael, Zacatepequez, Guatemala.
Distribution : Southern Guatemala ; also reported from Chiapas, Mexico.