Part 4, 1924] MELIACEAE 283 



16. Trichilia pallida Sw. Prodr. 67. 1788. 



Guarea oblusifolia Lam. Encyc. 3: 6. 1789. 



Porlesia orate. Cav. Diss. 369. 1789. 



^Trichilia portoricensis Spreng. Syst. 3: 68. 1826. 



Pholacilia diversifolia Stahl. Est. 2: 166. 1884. Not P. diversifolia Griseb. 1859. 



Trichilia diversifolia Cook & Coll. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 257. 1903. Not T. diversifolia A. 



Juss. 1830. 

 Trichilia simplicifolia Cook & Coll. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 258. 1903. Not T. simplicifolia 



Spreng. 1826. 



A shrub or small tree 3-5 m. tall, or tree sometimes attaining a height of 15 m., the young 

 growth hirsutulous; bark of the twigs brown, often conspicuously scarred with elevated, elliptic 

 or oval lenticils; leaves odd-pinnate, 10-25 cm. long, the petioles channeled above, hirsutulous 

 when young, glabrate in age; leaflets 3-7, opposite or nearly so, oblong-elliptic to elliptic, 

 oblanceolate or obovate, the lateral leaflets 3.5-15 cm. long, 2-6 cm. broad, the terminal leaflet 

 often longer and broader, all acute or sometimes rounded at the apex, acute or cuneate at the 

 base, glabrous on both surfaces; midrib and lateral veins prominent beneath; inflorescence 

 umbel-like, lateral, axillary, the branches hirsutulous; flowers long-pedicelled, the pedicels 

 dilated at the apex and jointed with the base of the calyx; calyx gamosepalous, commonly with 

 4 triangular, acute lobes, hirsutulous on the outside; petals usually 4, oblong-elliptic to elliptic, 

 4.5-6.5 mm. long, 2.5-3 mm. broad, acute at the apex, greenish- or yellowish-white, clothed 

 on the back with short, appressed hairs; staminal tube lobed to the middle or below, the lobes 

 oblong, villous above within and on the back, the lobes shortly 2-toothed; anthers oblong, spar- 

 ingly villous; ovary 2- or 3-celled, hirsutulous, adherent to the staminal tube; capsule ovoid, 

 1-1.5 cm. long, 7-9 mm. broad, hirsutulous; seeds ellipsoid or ovoid, 5.5-7 mm. long, 4-6 mm. 

 broad, more or less flattened on one side. 



Type locality: Hispaniola. 



Distribution: Cuba, Hispaniola, and Porto Rico. 



Illustration: Cav. Diss. pi. 215. 



17. Trichilia montana H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 7: 226. 1825. 



Trichilia montana acutivalvis C. DC. Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 5: 422. 1905. 



A tree, with grayish-brown strigulose-tomentulose twigs, glabrous in age; leaves alternate, 

 23-29 cm. long, the petioles and rachis grooved above, more or less tomentulose with mostly 

 appressed hairs when young; leaflets 3 or 5, firm, opposite, the lateral ones oblong-elliptic to 

 elliptic-ovate, 9-16 cm. long, 4-7 cm. broad, the terminal leaflet usually larger, all abruptly 

 short-acuminate at the apex, the tip obtuse or somewhat acutish, acute at the base, petioluled, 

 minutely pellucid-dotted, reticulate-veined, glabrous above, the midvein impressed, glabrous 

 or puberulent on the veins beneath, the midvein and lateral veins prominent; inflorescence 

 axillary, the branches puberulent; bracts ovate, acute; flowers short-pedicelled; calyx cup- 

 shaped, 4- toothed, sericeous-puberulent, the teeth acute; petals ovate-oblong, acute, appressed- 

 puberulent on the back; staminal tube lobed, the lobes pilose above; anthers ovate-oblong, 

 pilose; ovary ovoid, hirsute; capsule- valves lanceolate or lanceolate-ovate, 11-14 cm. long, 

 about 6 mm. broad, acute, strigose-hirsute; seeds ovoid, 8 mm. long, 6 mm. broad. 



Type locality: Quindio mountains, Colombia. 

 Distribution: Central America; also in South America. 



18. Trichilia cuneata Radlk. Sitz.-ber. Akad. 

 Munch. 9: 642. 1879. 



Trichilia Heydeana C. DC. Bot. Gaz. 19: 3. 1894. 

 (Trichilia Biolleyi C. DC. Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 5: 423. 1905. 

 ^Trichilia Biolleyi nicoyensis C. DC. Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 5: 424. 1905. 

 Trichilia chiriquina C. DC. Smithson. Misc. Coll. 68 6 : 6. 1917. 



A tree about 10-12 m. in height, the young growth, twigs, petioles, rachis, and branches of 

 the inflorescence hispidulous; leaves odd-pinnate, 15-30 cm. long; leaflets 5-9, obovate to 

 somewhat lanceolate or elliptic, 6-14 cm. long, 3-6 cm. broad, opposite, subopposite, or alter- 

 nate, more or less inequilateral and acute or somewhat rounded at the base, short-acuminate 



