212 FLOEA OF JAMAICA Tricldlia 



cit. 236 (1830) ; Macf. Jam. i. 172. T. foliis oblongo-ovatis, 

 pinnatis, nitidis ; racemis laxis rarioribus &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 

 279. T. terminalis Jacq. Enum. PL Carib. 20 (1760) & Set 

 Stirp. Amer. 130; G. DC. torn. cit. 662. T. hirta Sw. Obs. Bot 

 171 (1791) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 732 (non L.) ; Wih. loc. cit. T. Sloanei 

 Macf. Jam. i. 168 (1837). Pruno forti affinis arbor folio alato &c 

 Sloane Cat. 182 & Hist. ii. 128, t. 220, /. 1. Acrilia Sloanei 

 Griseh. op. cit. 129 (1859). 



Browne's specimen, the type, is in Herb. Linn., named in 

 Solander's hand. 



Between Passage Fort and St. Jago de la Vega, Sloane Herb. vii. 66* 

 and 67 ! Houstorm ! Browne ! Wright I Broughton 1 Dancer ; Shakspear 1 

 Macfadyen 1 St. Andrew, McNab ! Lime Savanna, Clarendon, Purdic 1 

 Prior ! March ! Cinchona, J. P. 1000, Hart ! Grant's Pen, St. Andrew, 

 Campbell ! Halls Delight ; Sheldon road, 2500 ft. ; Berwick Hill, 2500 ft. ; 

 Lapland, 1500 ft. ; Long Mountain, 800 ft. ; Great Goat Is. ; Kempshot, 

 1100-1600 ft. ; Oxford, near Balaclava, 2000 ft. ; Harris 1 M. Jam. 5479, 

 5615, 5846, 5874, 9168, 9592, 10,173, 10,332, 10,674. — Cayman Is., 

 Cozumel Is. 



Shrub or tree 8-40 ft. high ; sometimes with several trunks ; branches 

 few, mostly at the top of the trunks. Leaves 1-2*5 dm. 1., chiefly at the 

 ends of branches; petiole 4-5 cm. 1.; leaflets elliptical, oblong-elliptical, 

 or ovate, apex usually acuminate, base somewhat unequal, 4-7(-10) cm. 1. 

 Inflorescence 5-10 cm. 1. ; panicles long-stalked. Flowers fragrant. Calyx 

 puberulous, about 2 mm. 1., 4-5-cleft ; segments ovate-triangular, acute 

 or apiculate. Petals 5-8 mm. 1., greenish- or yellowish-white, oblong, 

 valvate, spreading. Stamens 8 or 10 ; filaments united to form a tube, but 

 easily separable, 2-5-4-5 mm. 1., anthers about 1 mm. 1. Disk yellowish, 

 puberulous above, lobed. Pistil about as long as the filaments ; ovary 

 partially immersed in the disk, hairy ; style puberulous, expanded at the 

 apex into a broad conical stigma. Capsule globular, greenish, tomentose, 

 3-(2)-valved, 2-4-seeded; valve 1-1*8 cm. br. Seeds nearly as long as 

 the capsule, black, partially covered with a red aril. 



Barbilus foliis dc. Browne Hist. Jam. 216 is possibly this species. 



5. T. havanensis Jacq. Enum. PI. Garib. 20 (1760) & Sel. 

 Stirp. Amer. 129, t. 175, f. 38; leaflets opposite, in 3 (2-4) pairs, 

 glabrous ; panicles umbel-like, densely crowded ; petals glabrous ; 

 filaments with 2 lanceolate teeth at the apex of each, glabrous 

 or more or less hairy ; anthers very shortly stalked, between the 

 teeth of the filaments, glabrous. — G. DC. torn. cit. 676. T. glabra 

 Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Amer. Ed. pict. t. 260, /. 35 (1780 1). T. odorata 

 Andr. Bot. Bep. t. 637; Hool. Exot. Fl. t. 128; G. DG. tom. 

 cit. 675. T. moschata Sic. var. odorata DG. Prodr. i. 623 

 (1824). T. moschata Sw. var. octandra Macf. Jam. i. 171 (1837). 

 T. jamaicensis G. DG. tom. cit. 678 (1878). Portesia ovata Gav. 

 Diss. vii. 369, t. 215 (1789); Griseb. op cit. 130; Wils. loc. cit. 

 (Fig. 70.) 



Broughton 1 " common in the mountains," Macfadyen ! Manchester, 

 Purdie 1 Wilson ! Moneague, Prior ! Mavis Bank, J.P. 1134 ; Westphalia 

 road, J.P. 1427; Hart I Mandeville, Scharschmidt I Pleasant Hill, 2500 ft.; 



