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Type locality: Ojos de Agua, Alajucla, Costa Rica. 

 Distribution: Costa Rica. 



26. Trichilia Langlassei C. DC. Ann. Cons. Jard. Geneve 

 10: 160. 1907. 



A shrub 2 m. tall, the twigs minutely puberulous; leaves 3-3.9 dm. long, petioled; leaflets 

 11 or 13, opposite or alternate, the lower ones ovate, 2.5-4.5 cm. long, 2-3 cm. broad, the upper 

 leaflets more or less obliquely lanceolate, 8-10 cm. long, 2.5-3.4 cm. broad, all short-petioluled 

 and often inequilateral and acute or rounded at the base, long-acuminate at the apex, appressed- 

 pilose on both sides, membranaceous, minutely pellucid-punctate, the margin ciliate; peti- 

 olules and rachis terete, pilose; panicle 2.6 dm. long, long-peduncled; flowers white, the pedicels 

 1—1.5 mm. long; calyx minutely puberulous on the outside, repand-denticulate.the teeth obtuse; 

 petals elliptic-oblong, 4-5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, obtuse at the apex, glabrous; staminal 

 tube subcampanulate, united to about the middle, the lobes hirsute within and on the margin; 

 anthers ovate, acute, glabrous, inserted between the teeth of the lobes; filaments very short; 

 ovary ellipsoid, appressed-hirsute, attenuate into a style of the same length. 



Type locality: El Tibor [Guerrero]. 

 Distribution: Mexico. 



27. Trichilia colimana C. DC. Bot. Gaz. 19: 40. 1894. 



A tree with glabrous, brownish branches; leaves odd-pinnate, 2-3 dm. long, the petioles 

 and rachis terete or nearly so, hirsute; leaflets 9-13, lanceolate to ovate or somewhat oblanceo- 

 late, 3-7 cm. long, 2-3 cm. broad, opposite or subopposite, petioluled, acute to acuminate at 

 the apex, the tip more or less rounded, loosely hirsute to nearly glabrous above, hirsute beneath 

 especially on the veins, rather obscurely pellucid-dotted; inflorescence axillary, raceme-like, 

 7-15 cm. long, glabrous in age; capsule hirsute, wrinkled, the valves ovate to suborbicular, 

 1-1.2 cm. long, 9-15 mm. broad; seeds subglobose or globose-ovoid, 6-7 mm. long, about 6 mm. 

 broad. 



Type locality: Colima. 

 Distribution: Mexico. 



28. Trichilia hirta L,. Syst. ed. 10. 1020. 1759. 



Trichilia spondioides Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 20. 1760. 



Cupania trachycarpa Griseb. Mem. Am. Acad. II. 8: 168. 1860. 



^Trichilia Schiedeana C. DC. in DC. Monog. Phan. 1: 664. 1878. 



Trichilia Wawrana antillana C. DC. in DC. Monog. Phan. 1: 667. 1878. 



(Trichilia spondioides gibbosifolia C. DC; Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 20: 3. 1895. 



Trichilia Pringlei Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 50. 1903. 



Trichilia hirla magnifolia C. DC. Ann. Cons. Jard. Geneve 10: 153. 1907. 



Trichilia spondioides gibbosifoliola C. DC. Ann. Cons. Jard. Geneve 10: 153. 1907. 



^Trichilia Pavoniana C. DC'. Ann. Cons. Jard. Geneve 10: 154. 1907. 



Trichilia Schiedeana Purpusii Brand. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 4: 274. 1912. 



A tree, commonly 6 or 8 m. tall, sometimes attaining a height of 12 or 15 m.; young twigs 

 more or less strigose; leaves odd-pinnate, 2.7-3.9 dm. long, the petioles and rachis hirsutulous 

 to glabrous or nearly so; leaflets 9-21, occasionally 3-7, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, 3-13 cm. long, 1.5-3.8 cm. broad, acute to acuminate at the apex, with the tip 

 obtuse, inequilateral and acutish or rounded at the base, opposite or subopposite, tomentulose 

 beneath along the midrib and lateral veins or glabrous; inflorescence paniculate, the branches 

 loosely hirsutulous to glabrous; flowers long-pedicelled, the pedicels jointed below the middle; 

 calyx rather thin, the lobes triangular or triangular-ovate, acute, glabrous or nearly so; petals 

 oblong to elliptic or somewhat obovate, 5-6 mm. long, 2-2.5 mm. broad, glabrous; staminal 

 tube lobed to below the middle, the lobes oblong, 2-toothed, villose within; anthers villose or 

 glabrous; ovary hirsutulous, sessile on the disk; style glabrous or somewhat hirsutulous; 

 capsule globose or subglobose, 1-1.3 cm. broad, velutinous, occasionally with long scattered 

 hairs intermingled; seeds 6-8 mm. long. 



Type locality: Jamaica. 



Distribution: Mexico; Central America; Cuba and Jamaica to St. Thomas and Grenada; also 

 in South America. 



Illustrations: Sloane, Hist. Jam. pi. 210, f. 2, 3. 



