FLOIJA OF JAMAICA Tricliilia 



3-2-lobed, capitate. Fruit a subglobose leathery capsule, 

 3-2-celled, loculicidally 3-2-valved, generally with 1 or 2 seeds 

 in each cell. Seeds without endosperm, enclosed in a fleshy, 

 usually scarlet, aril ; radicle superior. 



Species about 130, natives of tropical America (including 

 West Indies), and a few in tropical Africa. 



Leaves with, more than 1 pair of leaflets. 



Leaflets in 7-11 pairs, opposite or alternate 1. T. Jiirta. 



Leaflets in 3-4 pairs. 

 .Leaflets alternate. 



Capsule 2-4 valved, 1-5 cm. 1 2. T. moschata. 



<Gapsule not opening, to 2-5 cm. 1 3. ' T. Harrisii. 



"Leaflets opposite. 



Panicles corymbose, at ends of branches 4. T. glabra. 



Panicles umbel-like, crowded, axillary 5. T. havanensis. 



Leaves 3-foliolate G. T. polyneura. 



I. T. hirta L. Syst. ed. 10, 1020 (1759) & Amcen. v. 378; 

 leaflets opposite or alternate, in 7-11 pairs, glabrous on upper 

 surface, subhirsute beneath on midrib and nerves ; panicles 

 axillary, long-peduncled, branches short, subequal, mostly in 

 clusters of 2 or 3 ; petals glabrous ; filaments emarginate at 

 apex, glabrous outside, hirtellous inside and on the margin ; 

 .anthers hirtellous. Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 129 ; Urb. Sijmb. 

 Ant. iv. 327. T. subhirsuta, foliis pinna tis ovatis, racemis 

 alaribus Browne Hist. Jam. 278. T. spondioides Jacq. Enum. 

 PL Carib. 20 (1760) & Sel. Stirp. Amer. 128; Sw. Prodr. 67 & 

 Ft, Lid. Occ. 730; A. Jnss. in Mem. Mus. Par. xix. 236, /. 18, 

 /. 18a (anthers should have been represented hirtellous); Macf. 

 Jam. i. 169 ; Griseb. loc. tit. ; Wils. in Reports Geolog. Jam. 27 5 ; 

 C. DC. in DC. Monog. Plian. i. 665. Fraxinus americana 

 racemosa tricoccos Plum. Ic. ined. ii. 82. Euonymus caudice &c. 

 JSloane Cat. 171 & Hist, ii, 103, t. 210, /. 2, 3. 



Sloane Herb. vii. 30! Browne; Wright \ Macfadyen; Prior; March \ 

 Wilson \ J.P. 1303, Morris I Constant Spring; Port Morant ; Hitchcock; 

 Green Valley, Blue Mts. ; Mona, Liguanea plain ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 5212, 

 7693. Cuba, Is. of Pines, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Cruz, 

 St. John, Mexico, Ires Marias Is., Colombia, Venezuela. 



An authentic specimen collected by Swartz in Hispaniola is in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit. 



A shrub or tree, 10-20 ft. high. Leaves 4-5(-2) dm. 1. ; petiole 5-13 

 cm. 1. ; leaflets elliptical to oblong-elliptical, acuminate, base very unequal, 

 5-10 cm. 1., those in the middle largest. Inflorescence 5-20 cm. 1. ; 

 peduncle to 11 cm. 1. Flowers greenish-white or -yellow. Calyx 7 mm. 1., 

 5-cleft, glabrous, but sometimes subciliate at the apex of the deltoid 

 segments. Petals 2 '5-4 mm. 1., 5, elliptical to oblong, valvate. Filaments 

 2 mm. 1., 10; anthers 1 mm. 1. Ovary hirtellous on a glabrous shallow 

 disk. Style about as long as the ovary, hairy. Stigma globular, depressed 

 above. Capsule globular, about 1 cm. in diam., pubescent-tonientose or 

 .glabrescent, 3-(2)-valved. Seeds oblong-ovoid, covered with a red aril. 



