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wrinkled. Petioles short, stout, bearing- a gland on the npper 

 surface about midway. Leaflets mostly 5, alternate, much larger 

 on the fruiting branchlets than on those in flower, the latter on 

 slender petiolules 5 to 10 mm. long, channeled above. Blades to 

 6 by 15 cm., oblanceolate to obovate, with acute base, the summit 

 contracted very abruptly into an acute point about 7 mm, long; 

 thickish and rigid, entire, deep-green, drying brownish, the vena- 

 tion very slender, lightly prominent beneath, the secondaries 

 about 18 or 20 on each side, widely spreading, lightly curved, 

 connecting near the margin. Panicles axillary, peduncled, small, 

 loosely branched and loosely flowered, the flowers very small, 

 sessile or on very short stout pedicels. Calyx crateriform, about 

 2 mm. broad, the sepals ovate with broad obtuse summit, about 

 as broad as long. Petals puberulent, 3.5 mm. long, ovate, obtuse, 

 the summit recurved. Stamen-tube half the length of the petals, 

 its summit bearing 10 setaceous awns about half as long as the 

 tube, the anthers lanceolate, half as long as the tube. Fruit (ap- 

 parently immature) 8 nmi. broad, 6 mm. long, obscurely tri- 

 quetrous and lightly grooved, with broad summit. 



San Buena Ventura, 1,000 feet, M. Cardenas, November 26, 

 1921 {no. 1856). "A large forest-tree." 



Trichilia pauciflora 



Grayish-puberulent. Petioles 5 cm. long, slender, the upper 

 surface plane or shallowly channeled, the rachis 6 or 7 cm. long, 

 the leaflets 5 in all my specimens, subopposite, on petiolules 2 to 

 5 mm. long. Blades 5 to 15 cm. long, 3 to 9 cm. wide, the lower 

 successively smaller, the terminal much the largest, oval or 

 slightly obovate, with obtusish (the terminal acute) base and 

 very abruptly, shortly and obtusely pointed, entire, thin, pale- 

 green, subglabrous above, puberulent, mostly on the veins, be- 

 neath, where the midrib and secondaries are sharply prominent, 

 the latter 10 to 15 on a side, alternate, widely spreading and fal- 

 eately connecting close to the margin. Panicles (in fruit) axil- 

 lary, 5 cm. or less long, including the peduncles, densely fruited. 

 Pedicels extremely short. Capsules 1 cm. long, ovoid, tomentose, 

 the three valves stoutly keeled within. Seed solitary, nearly 

 filling the cavity, blackish, smooth and slighty shining, subglo- 

 bose, enclosed in a thin reddish aril. 



San Buena Ventura, 1,000 feet, Martin Cardenas, December 

 1, 1924 {no. 1743). "A large tree in the river-margin." So far 

 as my specimens indicate, the species is peculiar in its one-seeded 

 capsules. The species is near T. viridis Kusby. 



