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4"'-6"' long, 4'" broad. — Hab. Jamaica!, Mar/., March, common; S.Vincent!, Guild.; 

 [Mexico! to Guiana! and equatorial Brazil !, East Indies!, Afghanistan !]. 



Tribe II. TRICHILI'EM. — Seeds exalbuminous : cotyledons fleshy. 

 Ovary-cells 2r-l(-4)-ovulate. 



2. ACRILIA, Gr> 

 (Trichilise sp., Jacq.) 



Calyx 5-4-fid. Petals oblong, imbricative. Staminal tube 10-8-fid, separable to th 

 base into several 3-1-androus bundles : lobes oblong, blunt : anthers terminal. Ovary 

 3-celled : cells biovulate. Pericarp coriaceous, indehiscent : seeds covered with a pulpy 

 arillus : radicle superior. — Leaves impari-pinnate : leaflets quite entire; panicles corymbi- 

 form, terminal and axillary from the uppermost axils. 



A. Jussieu's Trichiliee must be broken up into several generic types, each having a peculiar 

 structure of the staminal tube. This view is confirmed by habitual characters in the inflo- 

 rescence : Acrilia is further distinguished by its globose pericarp, which opens with irregular 

 ruptures, not with valves. 



2. A. Sloanei, Gr.—Sl. t. 220./. 1.— Trichilia terminalis, Jacq. T. hirta, Sw.t 

 (non £.). T. Sloanei, Mac/. ! — A tree; leaflets 3^4-jugal, long-petiolulate, ovate or ovate- 

 oblong, glabrous ; panicles fastigiate, pubescent, dense, 2"-3" long and broad ; calyx spread- 

 ing, 3 times exceeded by the corolla : lobes 3-angular ; petals yellowish, tomentose, 3"' long ; 

 anthers and staminal tube pubescent, included; stigma capitate; pericarp tomentose, b'" 

 diam.: cells by abortion usually 1-seeded : seeds roundish, black, with a red arillus. — Hab. 

 Jamaica!, Mac/., Pd., A I., March, common. 



3. TRICHILIA, L. {emend). 



Calyx 5-4-fid. Petals ovate-oblong, imbricative. Staminal tube 10-8-partite : segments 

 subulate-oblong, blunt : anthers terminal, ovoid. Ovary 3-celled : cells biovulate, with the 

 ovules collateral. Capsule loculicidal : seeds covered with a pulpy arillus : radicle superior. 

 — Leaves usually impari-pinnate: leaflets quite entire ; panicles racemiform, axillary, pe- 

 duncled. 



3. T. hirta, L. (non Sw.). Leaflets 5-jugal, elliptical or oblong-lanceolate, glabrous ; 

 panicles puberulous, 2-4 times exceeded by the leaf: divisions few(-l) - flowered ; filaments 



cohering at the base: anthers 10, hairy ; capsule — SI. t. 210./. 2, 3 ; Jacq. Schcenbr. 1. 



t. 102. — T. spondioides, Jacq. (partim). — A low tree ; leaflets variable, tapering at the base, 

 the lower ones smaller ; petals whitish, glabrous, 2 m long ; staminal tube hairy within, very 

 short. — Hab. Jamaica (SI.) ; [S. Thomas!, Guadeloupe !, New Granada]. 



4. T. spondioides, Sw. ! Leaflets 10-7-jugal, ovate-oblong, oblique at the base, 

 glabrous; panicles puberulous, 4 times exceeded by the leaf: divisions 11 -3 -flowered; sta- 

 minal tube cohering to one-third, at length divided : anthers 10, hairy ; capsule tomentose, 

 rugulose. — T. spondioides, Jacq. Amer., belongs partly to this, but his figure to the preceding. 

 T. spondioides, A. Juss. (Mel. f. 18 a) agrees in structure, but is represented wrongly as 

 having glabrous anthers. — A low tree, 15'-20' high ; leaflets rounded at the base, pointed, 

 the lower ones smaller ; petals greenish-yellow, 1'" long ; stamens hairy ; capsule subglobose, 

 5"'-6'" diam. ; seeds ovoid: arillus red. — Hab. Jamaica !, A I., March, common; [Cuba!]. 



4. PHOLACILIA, Gr. 

 (Trichilise sp., A. Juss.) 



Calyx 4-5-fid. Petals oblong, imbricative. Staminal lube deeply 8-10-fid : lobes 

 subulate-oblong, bidentate at the top: anthers terminal, oblong, hairy. Ovary 3-celled; 

 cells 1-ovulate. Capsule of Trichilia. — Leaves impari-pinnate or lernate : leaflets quite 

 entire, costate beneath by the primary veins, few-l-jugai '; cymes axillary, short, shortly 

 peduncled or subsessile. 



A. Jussiea has described two superimposed ovules in both the West Indian species : but I 



