Ticorea
(the name of T. foetida in Guiana). SYNS. Ozophyllum, Sciuris. ORD. Rutaceae. A genus embracing about half-a-score species of stove trees or shrubs, natives of Brazil and Guiana. Flowers white, yellowish-white, or scarlet, on bracteate pedicels; calyx short, four or five-lobed; corolla tubular-infundibular, the tube elongated, the limb of five valvate lobes; disk cup-like or urceolate; stamens five to eight; panicles or cymes terminating the branchlets, rarely axillary, leafless. Leaves opposite or alternate, simple or consisting of one to three entire, pellucid-dotted leaflets. Two species have been introduced. They thrive in a compost of peat, loam, and sand. Propagation may be effected by ripened cuttings, inserted in sand, under a glass, in heat.
T. foetida (foetid). fl. white, six or seven in a corymb, sessile along the branches; petals six times longer than the calyx. February. l. consisting of three equal, almost sessile leaflets, which, when bruised, emit a disagreeable smell. h. 10ft. Guiana, 1825. Shrub. (A. G. 277.) T. jasminiflora (Jasmine-flowered). fl. white, sessile along the branches of the rather loose panicle. September. l. consisting of three lanceolate, acuminate, tapering leaflets. h 20ft. Brazil, 1827. Tree.