Trichilia aquifolia P. Wilson

Trichilia aquifolia P. Wilson
Ilex cuneifolia L. Sp. PI. 125. 1753.
Trichilia cuneifolia Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 242. 1912. Not T. cuneifolia Pulle, 1909.
A shrub 3-4 m. tall, or a tree, with brownish or grayish-brown puberulent twigs; leaves odd-pinnate, the petioles 0.5-2 cm. long, puberulent; rachis 1-4 cm. long; leaflets 3 or 5, rarely 7 or solitary, quadrangular with the lower two-thirds cuneate, the upper third broadly triangular and armed with a spine at each angle, 2-6.5 cm. long, 2-4.5 cm. broad, subopposite or alternate, rigid-coriaceous, glabrous, short-petioluled, reticulate-veined on both surfaces; lateral veins subhorizontal, the midrib more or less impressed above, prominent beneath; panicles axillary, few-flowered, 1-2.5 cm. long, the branches strigillose; calyx-tube short cup-shaped, subtruncate at the base, 5-lobed, the lobes short and broadly triangular or triangular-ovate, 0.5 mm. long, strigillose on the outside; petals oblong-lanceolate or elliptic, 3-4 mm. long, 1-2 mm. broad, valvate in aestivation, coriaceous, strigillose on the back; staminal tube 1.5^2 mm. high, glabrous, 10-toothed; anthers oblong, sessile on the margin of the staminal tube between the triangular-lanceolate teeth; stigma depressed-capitate; ovary short-conic or conic-ovoid, strigillose; capsule oblong, 2.5 cm. long, 1 cm. broad above the middle, woody, deeply 6-grooved, loculicidally dehiscing to the base, 1-seeded.
Type locality: Tropical America.
Distribution: Hispaniola.