Entry for CARAPA guyanensis Aubl. [family MELIACEAE]
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 329, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
CARAPA guyanensis Aubl. [family MELIACEAE], DC. Prod. i. 626.
CARAPA guineensis G. Don [family MELIACEAE], in Loud. Hort. Brit. 168; A. Juss. Mém. Mél. t. 9. f. 21.
CARAPA Touloucouna Guill. et Perr. [family MELIACEAE], Fl. Seneg. i. 128 (see also Rœmer, Syn. Hesp. i. 122–3).
Notes
I have compared specimens in flower as well as fruits preserved in the Kew Museum from tropical America and West Africa, and I cannot find any specific difference between them. The distinctions d by Perrottet and quoted by A. Jussieu, I have little confidence in, and Jussieu himself suspected that they might belong to one species. The Senegambian Carapa is described as a large tree; further south, according to Barter's labels, it occurs as a small one.