Toddalia
(Kaka Toddali is the Malabar name of T. aculeata). Including Scopolia (of Smith), Vepris. ORD. Rutaceae. A small genus (six to eight species) of unarmed or prickly, climbing or sarmentose, stove shrubs, dispersed over the tropics of the Old World and the Cape. Flowers in axillary or terminal cymes or panicles; calyx short, two to five-toothed, lobed, or parted; petals two to five, imbricated or valvate; torus inconspicuous or slightly elongated. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate; leaflets sessile, lanceolate, coriaceous, entire or crenate, pelluciddotted. Three species have been introduced, all natives of Mauritius. They are interesting shrubs, thriving in a compost of loam, peat, and sand. Propagated readily by cuttings, inserted in sand, under a glass, in heat.
T. aculeata (prickly). Lopez Root. fl. white; panicles shorter than the leaves, pilose, many-flowered. May. l., leaflets oblanceolate-oblong, acute, 1/2in. to 1in. broad, entire or obscurely crenate, the edges wrinkled; petioles 1in. long, flattened upwards. 1790. A climber, often armed with hooked prickles. (B. M. Pl. 49.) T. lanceolata (lance-shaped). fl. white, on short pedicels; panicles many-flowered, axillary and terminal, thyrsoid. May. l., leaflets oblong-lanceolate, 2in. to 3in. long, acute, entire, the edges waved; petioles 1in. to 2in. long, not flattened. h. 4ft. and upwards. 1824. An erect shrub. SYN. Vepris lanceolata.
T. paniculata (panicled). fl. greenish-white, in copious, deltoid, terminal panicles, with spreading or ascending branches. May. l., leaflets obovate-oblong, obtuse or sub-acute, 1in. to 1 1/2in. broad, bright green; petioles 1in. to 1 1/2in. long, sub-terete. h. 20ft. to 30ft. 1824. An erect, unarmed shrub.