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simple. vVood fibers about 1-2 o.'a. lon^r, se^jtate with thin 

 walls, large lumina and simple pits. ;/ood pareiichyma spa- 

 ringly develOijed. Hays vex'y narrow, usually from 1 to 3 

 cells wide and from 5 tc 8 times as high. 



Distribution, Common names and aaes 



This Icica is known only from the Atlantic Coast of 

 Panama, where it grovi/s on the hillsides covered .vith li^jht 

 forest growth. At liombre de Jios, it is called copa , ^^er- 

 haps an alteration of copal, and the clear resin which 

 runs from the incised trunk is used to cure seres and alsc 

 as incense in the church. I'he wood is v/hite, soft and of 

 little if any service. 



Meliaceae 



She Sweet Gedrela 



Cedrela fissilis Vail. Fl, ?lum. 1: 75,2: t. G6. 1825, 



Description of the tree 



A tree of variable habit, trunk low and rounded crown, 

 or trunk shaft-like and high, the crown then more or less 

 elongated, the bark darkish, rimose on the trunk, smoother 

 on the limbs, brownish, velvety pubescent, and covered 

 with white leaticels on the branchlets. Leaves pinnate, 

 deciduous, the rachis thick at the base, obscurely sulcate, 

 velvety pubescent, 25 to 35 cm. long; leaflets 7 to 12- ju- 

 gate, suopposite, subsessile, ovate to elliptic, subcor- 

 date or acute at the base, mostly oblique, 5 to 12 cm. long, 

 3 to 5 cm. bread. Pannicles many-f lov/ered , the rachis vel- 

 vety hairy; pedicels about 1 mm. long; calyx gamose^jalous, 

 5- toothed, jjube scent; x^etals 5, white, hairy, acute, 

 narrow, U mm, long; stamens 5, shorter than the ^^etals; 

 ovary ovoid, glabrous, sessile on a sulcate, columnar disc, 

 5-celled, each cell 12-cvulate. Capsules iu hanging bunches, 



dehiscent, 5-valvate, about 3 cm. long aiid L cm. in diameter; 

 Seeds flati,enea, long winged on one side only. 



