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PENTAND. MONOG. 414. Teftonia. 375 
Carolina. eh/, 3. 3 - f- 54 - Chryfophyllum. 
Sideroxylon tenax. Manf, 48. Jocq. ColUS. 2. p. 252. 
?r« 20 feet high, with a whicifh baric and very tough branches. 
Leaves wedge-ovate, retufe, rigid : peduncles axillary, 
cluftered; 
Jamaica. 5 'warl%, predr, FUind. ecc, \.p,if<y^, 
Leaves lance-oblong, obtufc, llightly emarginate : pedun- 
cles axillary, cluftered. 
St. Domingo. M«»/. 49 - Syderoxylon fceudiffimum. 
ifdwxmoftly alternate, Ihining: peduncles i-flowered. 
Leaves lance-ovate, pointed: peduncles cluftered, axillary 
and lateral. ^ n l 
America. Brovjn, 1. 17./. 4- Sloane, 2,/. 206. /.2. Latest. 2. 73. 
Achras falicifolia. Sp. pi, 470. 
Leaves oblong, obtufe, glabrous, whitifti underneath : flow- 
ers axillary and lateral, aggregate, on very Ihort pe- 
duncles. , , 
Peru. Lamarck. encycLs.p.Z^^, Stderoxylonc 
Leaves oblong, obtufe: flowers axillary, on long peduncles. 
Jamaica. Sn-vartz, prodr, Fl,ind,occ, i.^" 493 » 
Leaves alternate, elliptic, difcoloured underneath : flowers 
afxeregate, axillary and lateral, downy, peduncled. 
Cayenne, Vahl. eclog, i, p, 28. Willd. 1, p, 1087. 
Leaves lanceolate, pointed, ftiining: peduncies axillary; 
drupes 5-fided. , 
St. Domingo. Svjartxi prodr. 49. FI, 2nd. occ, i,p. 494 * 
Leaves fomewhat orbicular, margined, veined, coriaceous, 
glabrous both fides. 
Jamaica. Snsiartz. prodr, 50. FI. 2nd,occ, i, p, 
Leaves wedge-fhaped, obovate, 
Jamaica. Savartz, jl. ind, occ. i. p. 49 ^’ 
414. TECTONIA. Coro/ 5-cleft: Jiigma toothed: 
dTupe dry, Ipongy, within the inflated calyx: ytut 
4- celled. ^ , 
Tectonia. Teke-viood. 
Eall Indies. Roxb. Corom, i. p. 10. f. 6. Rheed. Mai. t. 23. 
Tree very tall, with a vah trunk : learns oppofice, ovate, (lightly 
fcalloped, moftly unequal at the bafe, covered with loft wnite 
down underneath, rough above: panicle terminal, croft-armed; 
peduncle common^ quadrangular: fonversfmzM, white, tra- 
grant : calvx downy ; drupe woally : ttamina often 6. 
The woood is'eminently ufeful in India, as affording the only tim- 
ber which the Termes fatale or White-ant will not touch. 
