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29. Trichilia glabra L. Syst. ed. 10. 1020. 1759. 



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

 Trichilia hirla Sw. Obs. 171. 1791. Not T. hirta L. 1759. 

 Trichilia Sloanei Macfad. Fl. Jam. 1: 168. 1837. 

 Acrilia Sloanei Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 129. 1859. 



A tree, commonly 6 or 8 m. high, occasionally larger; twigs gray, more or less clothed with 

 short appressed hairs when young, glabrous in age; leaves odd-pinnate, mostly towards the 

 ends of the branches, 8-23 cm. long; leaflets 5-9, lanceolate to oblong-ovate or ovate, 4-8 cm. 

 ong, 2-3.5 cm. broad, occasionally longer and broader, acuminate at the apex, with the tip ob- 

 tuse, nearly equilateral or inequilateral and acute or rounded at the base, petioluled, glabrous 

 on both surfaces; inflorescence sub terminal, corymbose-paniculate, shorter than the leaves, the 

 branches puberulent or glabrous; peduncles compressed; flowers pedicelled, the pedicels jointed 

 below the middle; calyx gamosepalous, 4- or 5-lobed, the lobes triangular or triangular-ovate, 

 acute, clothed on the outside with short, mostly appressed hairs; petals 4 or 5, oblong or oblong- 

 obovate, 7-8 mm. long, 2.2-3 mm. broad, acute, fleshy, densely clothed with very short 

 appressed hairs; staminal tube lobed, the lobes oblong, villous above within and on the back; 

 ovary ovoid or globose-ovoid, hirsutulous, immersed in the disk, the disk hirsutulous; style 

 rather slender, hirsutulous; capsule globose or globose-ovoid, 1.3-1.6 cm. long, 1.2-1.7 cm. 

 broad, the valves ovate, 1.2-1.5 cm. broad, acute, velutinous on the back; seeds more or less 

 hemispheric, black or brownish-black, 7-8 mm. broad; aril scarlet. 



Type locality: Jamaica. 



Distribution: Jamaica. 



Illustration: Sloane, Hist. Jam. pi. 220, f. 1. 



30. Trichilia arborea C. DC. Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. II. 5: 426. 1905. 



A tree, the young twigs strigillose-hirsute; leaves odd-pinnate, mostly towards the ends 

 of the branches, 11-17 cm. long; petioles and rachis strigillose-hirsute, the rachis somewhat 

 grooved above; leaflets 9 or 11, ovate, 2.5-4.5 cm. long, 1.7-2.2 cm. broad, acuminate at the 

 apex, inequilaterally rounded at the base, opposite or sometimes alternate, glabrous above, 

 the midvein and lateral veins impressed, hirsute beneath with rather short, scattered hairs, 

 the midvein and lateral veins prominent; petiolules 2-3 mm. long; inflorescence subterminal, 

 corymbose-paniculate, 5.5-7.5 cm. high, the branches somewhat angled, puberulent; calyx 

 densely strigulose-hirsute, the lobes triangular-ovate, acute or obtuse; petals elliptic to elliptic- 

 ovate, occasionally somewhat obovate, 4.5-5 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. broad, acute or obtuse at 

 the apex, densely puberulent on the outside; filaments united to about the middle or a little 

 below, hirsute on the back, villous within near the apex; anthers ovoid, glabrous; disk saucer- 

 shaped, fleshy, hirsute; ovary conic, hirsute, immersed in the disk ; style hirsute; stigma ovoid, 

 glabrous. 



Type locality: Nicoya, Costa Rica. 

 Distribution: Central America. 



31. Trichilia Moritzii C. DC. in DC. Monog. 

 Phan. 1: 707. 1878. 



A medium-sized or tall tree; twigs brown, densely puberulent; leaves odd-pinnate, 3-5 

 dm. long; petioles and rachis puberulent, the petioles 4-12 cm. long, prominently grooved at 

 the base; leaflets 5-11, elliptic to oval, 12-25 cm. long, 6-12 cm. broad, acuminate at the apex, 

 acute at the base, petioluled, glabrous above, the midrib and lateral veins impressed, puberulent 

 beneath when young, glabrous in age; panicle axillary, the branches densely puberulent, angled; 

 sepals orbicular, fimbriate, strongly imbricate, hirsute on the back, 2-2.5 mm. broad; petals 

 obovate, puberulent, 5-5.5 mm. long, 2.5-3.5 mm. broad, coriaceous, ciliate; staminal tube 

 with long tapering acuminate lobes between the anthers, hirsute above on the inside; anthers 

 oblong, glabrous; ovary sessile in a prominent saucer-like disk; capsule ellipsoid, 3-3.5 cm. 

 long, 1.6-2 cm. broad, woody, 1-seeded. 



