American Muskwood

Guarea swartzii DC. Prodr. 1: 624. 1824
A small or medium-sized tree, occasionally attaining a height of 20 m.; leaves 6-24 cm. long; petioles and rachis more or less strigulose when young, glabrous or nearly so in age, the rachis often narrowly grooved above ; leaflets 4-S, opposite, elliptic to oval, or somewhat ovate, 7-17 cm. long, 3-7.5 cm. broad, acute and equilateral or inequilateral at the base, acuminate at the apex, glabrous and lustrous above, the midrib impressed, hirsute beneath in the axils of the veins, the midrib and lateral veins prominent, petioluled; panicle often racemelike, axillary, 7-20 cm. long, occasionally longer, the branches strigulose when young; flowers short-pedicelled, the pedicels 0.5-2 mm. long, strigulose, enlarged at the apex; calyx shallow, 4-angled; lobes acute, the stipe-like base usually shorter than the pedicel; petals oblong to elliptic, 5.5-6 mm. long, 2.5-3 mm. broad, obtuse at the apex, more or less strigulose; staminal tube glabrous or with few scattered hairs on the outside; anthers oblong; ovary ovoid, glabrous; capsule subglobose or somewhat 4-angled, 2 cm. broad; seeds 10-15 mm. long; aril red. Type locality: Jamaica. Distribution: Jamaica.

Guarea guara (Jacq.) P. Wilson
Melia Guara Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 20. 1760.
Trichilia Guara I,. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 551. 1762.
Guarea trichilioides L. Mant. 228. 1771.
iTrichilia quadrijuga Spreng. Svst. 3: 67, in part. 1826.
Guarea trichilioides pallida C. DC. in Mart. Fl. Bras. II 1 : 184. 1878.
?Guarea pauciflora Moc. & Sesse. Fl. Mex. ed. 2. 92. 1894.
Guarea Cabirme C. DC. Ann. Cons. Jard. Geneve 10: 143. 1907.
Guarea parva C. DC. Smithson. Misc. Coll. 68 6 : 3. 1917.
A small or medium-sized tree, frequently 7-20 m. tall, or occasionally a forest tree attaining a height of 45 m.; leaves equally pinnate, 1-3 dm. long; leaflets 8-20, opposite or subopposite, short-petioluled, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate or oblong-obovate, 8-24 cm. long, occasionally longer, 3-8 cm. broad, punctate with slender, elongate, often curved pellucid lines, usually abruptly and obtusely short-acuminate at the apex, acute and equilateral at the base, glabrous on both surfaces, rather obscurely reticulate-veined, the veins slender; panicles 5-23 cm. high, the branches pubescent with short hairs; flowers short-pedicelled; calyx shallow, the stipe-like base often exceeding the pedicels in length; calyx-lobes half-orbicular or halforbicular-obovate, entire or toothed, pubescent on the back with short hairs; petals oblong, 5-7.5 mm. long, 2-3 mm. broad, free, greenish-white, densely pubescent on the back with short, closely-appressed, grayish-green hairs; staminal tube urn-shaped or cylindric urn-shaped, glabrous, or sometimes puberulent, entire or shallowly lobed; anthers oblong, barely exserted ; disk elevated, with a rather prominent ring of stiff hairs on its inner edge surrounding the base of the ovary; ovary ellipsoid or subglobose, closely sessile on the disk, pubescent with short, mostly appressed hairs; style columnar, pubescent; stigma disc-shaped; capsule obovoid or globose-obovoid, 1.5-1.9 cm. in diameter, glabrous, conspicuously brown-spotted; seeds ellipsoid, 9-13 mm. long.
Type locality: Mountains of Cuba.
Distribution: Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, and St. Croij; Panama; also in South America.

Guarea guidonia is a species of flowering plant in the family Meliaceae. It ranges from Cuba and Honduras south to Argentina.

The bark of Guarea rusbyi (Britton) Rusby, a synonym of Guarea guidonia (L.) Sleumer, is used as an expectorant named cocillana.