210 FLORA OF JAMAICA Triehilia 



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.Jiiria. 



Leaflets in 3-4 pairs. 

 Xieaflets alternate. 



Capsule 2-4 valved, 1*5 cm. 1 2. T. moschaia. 



Capsule not opening, to 2-5 cm. 1 3. T. Harrisii. 



Xeaflets opposite. 



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



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



Leaves 3-foIiolate 6. T. polyneura. 



1. T. hiPta L. Sysf. ed. 10, 1020 (1759) & Amoen. 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.— 6^me6. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 129; Urh. Symb. 

 Ant. iv. 327. T. subhirsuta, foliis pinnatis ovatis, racemis 

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

 PI. Garih. 20 (1760) &■ SeJ. Stirp. Amer. 128 ; Sw. Prodr. 67 & 

 Fl. Ind. Occ. 730 ; A. Juss. in Mem. Mus. Par. xix. 236, t. 18, 

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

 Jam. i. 169 ; Griseh. loc. cit. ; WiU. in Beports Geolog. Jam. 275 ; 

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

 racemosa tricoccos Plum. Ic. ined. ii. 82. Euonymus caudice <tc. 

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



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

 Wilson\ J.P. 1303, Morris\ 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, IMexico, Tres 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-tomentose or 

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



