Tricliilia 



MELIACE^E 



213 



near Brown's Town, 1000 ft. ; near Kendal, 1500 ft. ; Harris \ Fl. Jam. 

 6145, 7051, 8207. Cuba, Hispaniola, Central America. 



Tree or shrub 12-25 ft. high. Leaflets elliptical to narrowly elliptical 

 or oblong-elliptical, sometimes obovate, apex variable, rounded to shortly 

 acuminate, base wedge-shaped or obtuse, generally unequal, 5-14 cm. 1., 

 3 terminal leaflets approximate ; petiole 6-3 cm. 1. Panicles 1-2 cm. 1. 

 Flowers sweet-scented ; pedicels 3-4 mm. 1. Calyx divided nearly to the 

 base ; segments 4(-5), ovate, minutely puberulous, 1'3-1'5 mm. 1. Petals 

 4(-5), yellowish, 3-3-5 mm. 1., elliptical, obtuse. Stamens 8(-10); filaments 



Fig. 70. TrichiUa havanensis Jacq. 



A, Leaf and inflorescence x J. E, Ovary cut across, greatly enlarged. 



B, Flower cut lengthwise x 7. F, Capsule x 2. 



C, Two stamens, front view x 10. G, Seed cut lengthwise X 2. 



D, Stamen, side view x 10. 



united at the base, more or less adhering above, about 1'5 mm. 1. ; anthers 

 linear-lanceolate, nearly 1 mm. 1. Pistil as long as the stamens, glabrous, 

 on a shallow disk ; style much shorter than the ovary ; stigma indistinctly 

 3-lobed ; ovary 3-celled. Capsule 3(-2)-valved, about 1 cm. 1. ; aril red. 



G. T. polyneura Urb. Symb. Ant. v. 380 (1908); leciflets 3. 



Papine estate, St. Andrew, 900 ft. ; Long Mountain, west, near 

 Kingston, 700 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 8380, 8860. 



Shrub or slender tree, sometimes with several stems, 15-20 ft. high. 

 Lea/lets narrowly elliptical or obovate-obloug, apex generally rounded, 

 base acute, glabrous, leathery, nerves on both sides densely net-veined, 

 prominulous, 3 '5-7 cm. 1.; petiole 2-1 cm. 1. Panicles raceme-like, with 

 very short branches. Peduncle -5-2-5 cm. 1.; branches 1-3 mm. 1., 

 3-1-flowered. Calyx about 1-5 mrn.l., puberulous, with 4 or 5 short lobes. 

 Petals 4 or 5, white, lanceolate- or oblong-elliptical, 3- 3 mm. 1., tomentose 



