Trichilia (trikilia)

[NL. (Linnæus, 1763), They are trees or shrubs with axillary panicles of numer ous and rather large flowers. The leaves are alternate, odd-pinnate, and commonly pellucid-dotted. The leaflets are entire, and usually numerous, sometimes three, or only two, or very rarely replaced by an undivided leaf. The stamens are more or le monadelphous; in the 67 species of the section Moschoxylum, formerly separated as a distinct genus (Adrien de Ju ieu, 1830), they are united nearly to the anthers; but in 43 others, the typical section Eutrichilia, they are not united above the middle. The first group is entirely American, except T. Prieureana, which is African; its best known species is T. moschata, often called Moschoxylon Swartzii, a low fragrant resinous tree with loose panicles of yellowish flowers, a native of Jamaica, where it is known as muskwood, incense-tree, and pameroon-bark tree. (Compare juribali.) To the typical group belongs T. emetic a of Arabia and Africa, a large tree with densely panicled whitish flowers. (See rok a, elcaja, and mafurra - tree.) Several South American species are reputed purgatives, as T. cathartic a and T. trifoliata. T. hirta is known as bastard ironwood and T. spondioides as white bitterwood in Jamaica. T. Triniten sis, the naranjillo blanco of Trinidad and Guiana, a small tree with capsules densely covered with soft prickles, yields a dark wood of close and even grain. T. Catigna of Brazil is said to stain leather a bright yellow. The petals are downy or densely velvety in many species, especially in T. grandiflora of St. Thomas. T. glandu los a of New South Wales, called turnip - wood (which see) and also rosewood, is now separated as a genus Synoum.