Trachylobium

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Trachylobium (Greek, rough and pod; the upper surface of the pod is tuberculate - roughened). Leguminosae. Unarmed trees: lvs. with 2 lfts. which are coriaceous; stipules caducous: fls. white, panicled at the ends of the branches; calyx-tube disk-bearing, narrow-turbinate, segms. 4; petals 5, sometimes the 3 upper clawed and suborbicular, the 2 lower minutely scale-like, sometimes all subequal and clawed; stamens 10, free; ovary short-stipitate: pod ovoid-oblong, thick-coriaceous, warty-rugose, indehiscent.—Three species, Trop. Afr., Mascarene Isls., and Trop. Asia. T. verrucosum, Oliver (T. Hornemannianum, Hayne). Tree wholly glabrous excepting the tawny or silky pubescent infl.: lfts. 1-paired, obliquely oblong or elliptical, acuminate or apiculate: panicles overtopping the lvs.; calyx-segms. obovate-elliptical or oblong; petals posterior and lateral subequal, anterior equal or rudimentary: pod l-2-seeded, oblong or obovoid, l 1/4-2 in, long. Mozambique and Madagascar. Gt. 51, p. 633. T. verrucosum has the anterior petals nearly equal the rest; T. Hornemannianum has them rudimentary. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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