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FLORA OF JAMAICA 



Tricliilia 



outside. Stamens alternately longer and shorter ; filaments glabrous, 

 united in a tube for about three-quarters of their length, the longer 

 filaments 2 mm. 1., free above the tube, 2-toothed, one or more of shorter 

 stamens sometimes abortive. Ovary very hairy, with erect hairs ; style 

 very short; stigma capitate. Capsule 13-18 mm. 1., covered with brownish 

 tcmentum, 3-valved, valves keeled along a median line inside, leathery. 

 Seed solitary, about 14 rnm. 1. 



2. GUAREA L. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves pinnate, continuing for some time 

 to produce new leaflets at the apex. Panicles axillary. Flowers. 

 rather small. Calyx short, cup-like, with 4 teeth. Petals 4 (-5). 

 Stamens 8 ; mouth of staminal-tube entire or slightly crenate ; 

 anthers sessile. Ovaiy 4-celled. Ovules in each cell, 1 or 2 

 superposed. Fruit a leathery or woody capsule, 4-celled, opening 

 at length loculicidally with 4 valves. Seeds 1 or 2 in each cell, 

 enclosed in an aril ; cotyledons superposed ; radicle dorsal. 



Species about 90, mostly natives of tropical America, 

 including the West Indies, a few in tropical Africa. 



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Fig. 71. Guarea glabra Vahl. 



A, Leaf and inflorescence x I. 



B, Flower X 2. 



C, Staminal-tube cut open, pistil cut 



lengthwise X 3. 



Dj E, Capsule cut across, one seed re* 

 moved ; , abortive cell x . *;s, b-a 



F, Capsule cut lengthwise through a seed 

 and an abortive cell x |. 



G. glabra Valil Eclog. Am. in. 8 (1807). G. trichilioides Sw. 

 Obs. Sot. 146 (1791) (non L.) ; Wright Mem. 264. G. Swartzii 



