Cedrela fissilis Vell.

Cedrela fissilis Veil. Fl. Flum. 75. 1825
Surenus fissilis Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 111. 1891.
A tree sometimes 18 m. or more in height; young twigs, under surface of the leaflets, petioles, rachis, and branches of the inflorescence more or less densely hirsutulous with rather short brownish hairs; leaves 2.8-5 dm. long; leaflets 16-26, opposite or subopposite, oblonglanceolate to oblong-ovate, 9-14 cm. long, 2-3.7 cm. broad, nearly equilateral or inequilateral and rounded or somewhat acutish at the base, acuminate to long-acuminate at the apex, rather finely reticulate above, the midrib and lateral veins impressed, hirsutulous, subsessile to shortpetioluled; branches of the inflorescence angled; calyx hirsutulous with mostly appressed hairs, the lobes ovate or triangular-ovate, acute; petals oblong, 8-9 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, acutish or somewhat obtuse, densely velvety-puberulent with rather long silky, loosely appressed hairs; filaments glabrous; style slender; capsule 3 cm. long, 2 cm. broad.
Type locality: Rio de Janeiro.
Distribution: Mexico (?); Panama; also in South America.