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HAB. Common. 
FL. Towards the end and earlier months of the year. 
A tree about 20 feet in height ; branches ash-coloured, te- 
rete, towards their extremities slightly compressed, greenish, 
puberulous. Leaves situated principally at the ends of the 
branches ; leaflets 3-4-paired, petiolulated, ovato-lanceolate, 
scarcely elliptic, acuminate with a blunt point, rounded and 
unequilateral at the base, entire, nerved with the axils of the 
nerves excavato-blistery and puberulous, otherwise glabrous, 
membranaceous: petiole sub-terete: petiolule a third of an inch 
in length. Racemes several, towards the ends of the branches, 
axillary, solitary, shorter than the leaf, panicled : peduncle com- 
pressed, minutely puberulous : branches alternate, dichoto- 
mously subdivided, at length dividing into 3 pedicels : pedicels 
about the 4th of an inch, terete, pubescent, 1-flowered: flowers 
yellowish, fragrant. Bracteas oblong, one at each of the divi- 
sions of the peduncle, deciduous; bracteoles a pair, small, ovate, 
opposite, below the middle of the two lateral pedicels, the cen- 
tre one being naked. Calyx small, puberulous, 4-5-fid; teeth 
erect, bluntish. Petals 4-5, oblong, puberulous, spreading. 
Stamens 8-10: filaments cohering for Jths of their length to 
form a tube, 4-5-agonal, pubescent, ciliated: anthers yellow, 
oblong, acute, with the apex incurved. Disk amber-coloured, 
puberulous, 4-5-lobed. Ovary seated on the disk, green, coni- 
cal, pubescent: style short; stigma capitate, acute, yellow. 
Fruit size of a cherry, greenish, velutino-tomentose, globose, 
3-valved, 3-celled ; usually with only 2 of the cells perfecting 
the seed : seed solitary, hemispherical, blackish ; arillus scarlet. 
This is, I have no doubt, the T. iiirta of Swartz and De 
Candolle. The name, however, appeared to me to be very 
inapplicable, as even according to the specific character of the 
latter Botanist, no part of the plant is particularized as being 
remarkable for its hairiness. Specimens found in the neigh- 
bourhood of Kingston w r ere 8-androus : those collected in the 
mountains were 10-androus. I may here mention that the fila- 
ments only slightly cohere, and that they are easily separated. 
2. Trichilia spondioides. Plum-leaved Trichilia. 
Leaves impari-pinnate, leaflets 7-10 paired ovato- 
lanceolate, when old glabrous, when young puberulous 
alonw the under surface of the nerves and near the 
margin, racemes axillary, filaments subdistinct. 
Evonymus caudice non ramoso, folio alato, fructu rotnndo 
tripyreno, Sloane, II. 103. t. 210. f. 2 and 3. — Trichilia spon- 
dioides, Swartz, FL Ind. Occ. 730. — Jacg. H. Schcenbr. I. t. 
102 . 
