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Til A LA MI FLORAE. 
5. Trichilia glabra ? Glabrous Trichilia. 
Leaves pinnated, leaflets alternate obovato-oblong 
rounded at the apex, glabrous with the outermost 
leaflet the largest, panicle terminal, flowers decand- 
rous, filaments distinct. 
T. terminalis, Jacq. Amer. 130 ? 
HAB. Common, Liguanea, and Port- Royal mountains. 
FL. April. - 
A tree, about 20 feet in height ; branches long, subsimple, 
hearing the leaves and flowers at their extremities. Leaves al- 
ternately pinnated : leaflets about 10 in number, 3 inches long 
and 1 broad, (the outermost one usually the largest) oblong, 
unequilateral and attenuated at the base, more or less 
rounded at the apex, glabrous, shining above, paler beneath : 
petiolules short. Panicle terminal, longer than the leaves, 
diffusely branched, many-flowered : flowers of a pale yellow, in 
clusters. Peduncle compressed, angular, glabrous : pedicels 
very short. Calyx 5-fid; divisions subacute, ciliated. Petals 
5, alternating with the divisions of the calyx, oblong, mucro- 
nate, longitudinally veined, spreading. Stamens 10, inserted on 
the disk, erect : filaments glabrous, hut each increased inter- 
nally at the base with a minute ovate villous appendage, which 
converge so as to conceal the ovary. Ovary minute, orbicular, 
depressed, crenulated at the margin. 
III. Guarea. 
Calyx minute, 4-fid. Petals 4, obtuse. Stamens 
S ; filaments bidentate at the apex, usually united 
among themselves, internally antheriferous. Stigma 
capitate. Capsule subglobose, 4-celled, 4-valved. 
Seeds solitary, arillated, exalbuminose De Gand. 
Trees. — Guara is said to he the name of the Mushwood in 
Cuba. 
1. Guarea Swartzii. Mushwood Tree. 
Leaflets 2-4 paired lanceolato-ovate acuminate pen- 
ni-nerved, lateral nerves 6-7 prominent beneath, ra- 
cemes elongated. 
Lauro affinis arbor, foliis latioribus ex adverso sitis, lignum 
moschum olente, Sloane , II. t. 170. f. 1. — Eleutheria arhorea, 
Browne. 369. n. 7. — Melia Guara, Jacq. Amer. 126. t. 176. — 
Guarea trichilioides, Swartz , Obs. 1 46. 
