Volume 10 — PLATE DCXXXVII. TRICHILIA ODORATA. Sweet-scented Trichilia.

CLASS X. ORDER I.

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Calyx 4-5-dentatus. Petala 4-5. Nectarium cylindricum, in apice dentatum, antheras 8-10 gerens. Capsula 3-locularis, 3-valvis. Semina baccata.

Empalement 4-5-toothed. Petals 4 or 5. Nectary cylindrical, toothed at the end, and bearing from 8 to 10 stamens. Capsule 3-celled, 3-valved. Seeds berries.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Trichilia petalis quatuor et decem antheris: foliis pinnatis: foliolis lanceolatis, undulatis: floribus axillaribus: caule erecto, moschato.

Trichilia with four petals and ten stamens. Leaves pinnated: leaflets lance-shaped and undulated. Flowers grow from the axils of the leaves. Stem upright, and musk-scented.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

The genus Trichilia is certainly at present in a confused state, from the latitude annexed to it of 4 to 5 petals, and 8 to 10 stamens. It appears to contain at least two genera. This fine species is said to have been sent over to England from the botanic garden in the Island of St. Vincent’s by Doctor A. Anderson about the year 1801, and is not we believe (at present) in any other collection but that of Sir Abraham Hume, who favoured us with the specimen here delineated in fine bloom last summer (1810). It possesses the same fragrance that is attributed to the Trichilia moschata, of which we have never seen specimens.