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336 xxxvii. meliace^e (oliver). [Trichilia. 



rounded or even truncate ; petiolules £-£ in. or of the terminal leaflet 1 in. 

 Flowers 1-1$ in. in diam. when expanded, in short, axillary, loosely branching 

 panicles or compound racemes. Calyx 5-partite ; lobes rotundate. Petals 

 rather thick, obtuse, patent, 6-8 lines long. Filaments united one-third to 

 one-half their length, hairy above on the inner side and margins ; apex 2-fid ; 

 teeth nearly equalling the anthers. Disk adnate to the staminal tube. Ovary 

 hairy, 2-locular ; ovules geminate. Fruit not seen. 



Upper Guinea. St. Thomas's, Mann ! 



7. T.? rubescens, Oliv. A tree of 12-15 ft. Leaves 1-2 ft. long, 

 9-ll-foliolate, with a terete puberulous or glabrate rachis ; leaflets alternate 

 or snbopposite, rather coriaceous, oblong-elliptical or -oblanceolate, shortly 

 and acutely acuminate, glabrous or sparsely puberulous beneath on the 

 principal nerves, 6-8 in. long, 2-2£ in. broad ; petiolules 2-3 lines. Flowers 

 "yellow," 1^-2 lines, in corymbose cymes collected in axillary, sometimes 

 elongate panicles of 5-12 in. ; pedicels equalling the calyx or shorter. Calyx 

 shortly cupulate, 5-partite, with broad rotundate or transversely oblong lobes. 

 Filaments shortly 2-tid at the apex, united about half their length, hairy 

 within. Disk thick, fleshy, free. Ovary 3-celled with geminate ovules. 

 Fruit not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po and Ambas Bay, Mann ! 



Limonia? monadelpha, Schnm. et Thonn. Gain. PI. 217, as suggested by Dr. Planchou 

 (Fl. Nigrit. 255), is probably a Trichilia, but I can only guess as to the species. 



5. CARAPA, Aubl. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 338. 



Calyx 5- or 4-partite or -lobed ; lobes rotundate, short. Petals as many 

 as divisions of the calyx, contorted in aestivation. Stamens monadelphous; 

 anthers 8-10, included, alternate with the entire apiculate or emarginate 

 teeth of the urceolate tube. Ovary 4-5-6-celled, surrounded by an annular 

 partially free or adherent disk ; style short, thick ; stigma discoid. Ovules 

 about 2-8 in each cell. Capsule large, somewhat fleshy or woody, at length 

 opening in 4-5 valves. Seeds large, more or less pyramidally* angled by 

 mutual pressure, 2 or more in each cell. (I have notexamined seeds in a 

 fresh state.)— Trees, perfectly glabrous, with large multifoliolate imparipin- 

 nate or smaller abruptly pinnate, coriaceous leaves. Flowers in axillary 

 panicles, cymose. 



A genus of 2 or 3 species, one of which appears to be common to both Eastern and 

 Western tropical shores of the Atlantic. 



Leaves imparipinnate, multifoliolate. Teeth of staminal tube entire or 



einarginate. Ovules 4-7 in each cell \. C. guyaiientis. 



Leaves 2-(3-l-)jugate. Teeth of staminal tube rounded, apiculate. 



Ovule9 2-4 in each cell , 2. C. moluccensis- 



1. C. guyanensis, Aubl.; DC. Prod. i. 626. Leaves multifoliolate, 

 imparipinnate, 2-4 ft. in length, principally collected at the extremities of 

 the branches ; leaflets subopposite or alternate, broadly oblong or oblong- 



