172 THALAMIFLOR.Ti:. 



5. Tricliilia o'labra ? Glabrous Trichilia. 



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Leaves pinnated, leaflets alternate obovato-oblong 

 rounded at the apex, glabrous with the outermost 

 leaflet the largest, panicle terminal, flowei's decand- 

 rous, filaments distinct. 



T. terminalis, Jacq. Amer. 130? 



HAB. Common, Liguanea, and Port-Royal mountains. 



FL. April. 



A tree, about 20 feet in height ; branches long, subsimple, 

 bearing the leaves and flowers at their extremities. Leaves al- 

 ternately pinnated : leaflets about 10 in number, 3 inches long 

 and 1 broad, (the outermost one usually the largest) oblong, 

 unequilateral and attenuated at the base, more or less 

 rounded at the apex, glabrous, shining above, paler beneath : 

 petiolules short. Pani(;le terminal, longer than the leaves, 

 diff^usely branched, many-flowered : flowers of a pale yellow, in 

 clusters. Peduncle compressed, angular, glabrous : pedicels 

 very short. Calyx 5-fid ; divisions subacute, ciliated. Petals 

 5, alternating with the divisions of the calyx, oblong, mucro- 

 nate, longitudinally veined, spreading. Stamens 10, inserted on 

 the disk, erect : filaments glabrous, but each increased inter- 

 nally at the base with a minute ovate villous appendage, which 

 converge so as to conceal the ovary. Ovary minute, orbicular, 

 depressed, crenulated at the margin. 



III. GUAREA. 



Calyx minute, 4-fid. Petals 4, obtuse. Stamens 

 8 ; filaments bidentate at the apex, usually united 

 among themselves, internally antheriferous. Stigma 

 capitate. Capsule subglobose, 4-celled, 4-valved. 

 Seeds solitary, arillated, exalbuminose.. — De Cand. 



Trees. — Guara is said to be the name of the 3Iuskwood\n 

 Cuba. 



1. Guarea Swartzii. Muskwood Tree. 



Leaflets 2-4 paired lanceolato-ovate acuminate pen- 

 ni-nerved, lateral nerves 6-7 prominent beneath, ra- 

 cemes elongated. 



Lauro aflinis arbor, foliis latioribus ex adverso sitis, lignum 

 moschum olente, Shane, II. t. 170. f. 1. — Eleutheria arborea, 

 Browne. 369. n. 7. — Melia Guara, Jacq. Amer. 126. t, 176. — 

 Guarea trichilioides, Stvdrtz, Obs, 1 46. 



