Niaragato

Zanthoxylum spinifex (Jacq.) DC. Prodr. 1: 728. 1824
Fagara spinifex Jacq. Fragm. 10. 1809.
Fagara murophylla Desf. (Tabl. Bot. 200; hyponym. 1804) ; Hamilt. Prodr. 21. 1825.
Zanthoxylum microphyllum Desf. Cat. Hort. Paris, ed. 3. 256. 1829.
A shrub or small tree, 1-5 m. high, with a grayish or grayish-brown bark and often flexuose branches, almost always armed with slender, brownish, stipular prickles 2-5 mm. long ; twigs when young minutely puberulent, glabrate when old ; leaves odd-pinnate ; leaflets 3-11, opposite, very variable in shape, linear-oblong to elliptic or ovate, occasionally obovate, 0.3-1.5 cm. long, 1-5.5 mm. broad, rounded or truncate and sometimes emarginate at the apex, cuneate to slightly rounded at the base, entire, lustrous above, scarcely paler beneath, opaque, sessile or very short-petioluled ; lateral nerves small or scarcely prominent ; glands very few and scattered; petioles and internodes of the rachis winged, oblong to oblongelliptic, 0.5-3 mm. broad, usually unarmed or rarely bearing a small brownish prickle between the pairs of leaflets ; flowers solitary, or several glomerate in the axils of the leaves ; staminate flowers : sepals 4, triangular, obtuse, 0.5 mm. long ; petals 4, oval to elliptic, 1.5-2 mm. long, 0.7-0.9 mm. broad, rounded at the apex, substipitate at the base ; stamens 4; filaments longer than the petals; anthers ovate to nearly orbicular ; gynophore conic, 4-grooved, ver3' small ; ovaries 2, rudimentary, very short, oblong or linear-lanceolate ; pistillate flowers : gynophore entire, semiglobose, short ; gynoecium 2-carpellary ; styles longpersistent ; stigmas connate ; follicles 1 or 2, sessile or short-stipitate, united below, globose or globose-obovoid, 2.5-3.4 mm. in diameter, obtusely keeled on the inner side, mucronate, brownish or blackish, dehiscing to above the middle ; seeds ovoid, rounded or subglobose, 2.5-3 mm. long, black, shining.
Type locality : Caracas, Venezuela.
Distribution : Cuba; Porto Rico to Barbados; also in Venezuela.

Zanthoxylum tragodes (L.) DC. Prodr. 1; 725. 1824
Schinus iragodes L. Sp. PI. 3S9. 1753.
Fagara Iragodes Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 12. 1760.
A more or less erect or vine-like shrub, 2-3 m. high, with a grayish bark, the branches often slender, flexuous, armed with slender, recurved, brownish, stipular prickles 3-7 mm. long; twigs minutely puberulent when young, glabrate with age; leaves odd-pinnate ; leaflets 3-13, opposite, linear to oblanceolate, occasionally obovate, 0.5-1.8 cm. long, 0.2-0.5 cm. broad, rounded or occasionally emarginate at the apex, narrowed to the base, entire, lustrous, sessile or subsessile, not pellucid-glandular, reticulate-veined, the lateral nerves prominent ; petioles and internodes of the rachis winged, linear-oblanceolate to rectangularoblong, 2-8 mm. broad, strongly reticulate-veined ; flowers solitary, or several glomerate in the axils of the leaves ; staminate flowers : sepals 4, triangular-orbicular or suborbicular, 0.7-0.8 mm. long, and as broad, rounded at the apex ; petals 4, oval or obovate, 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, rounded at the apex ; filaments as long as the petals ; anthers ovate, obtuse ; gynophore conic ; ovaries 2, rudimentary, linear-lanceolate ; pistillate flowers not seen ; follicles globose-ovoid, 5 mm. long, 4-4.5 mm. broad, short-mucronate, dehiscent to below the middle ; seeds globose-ovoid, 4 mm. long, 3.5 mm. broad, black, shining.
Type locality : America.
Distribution: Haiti.