A flora of Manila - Rainforestation

ANONACEAE 205
ovules 2 or more. Fruit of several to many follicles, or berry-like,
arranged in a whorl or on an elongated cone. Seeds solitary or few, sometimes
pendulous from a long funicle.
Genera 9, species about 80, chiefly natives of the mountains of tropical
and temperate Asia and of the eastern United States, a few in Malaya
and Australia, 5 genera and about 15 species in the Philippines.
1. MICHELIA Linnaeus
Tress with alternate, simple, entire leaves, the stipules large, sheathing
the buds, deciduous. Flowers axillary, solitary, yellow or white, very
fragrant. Sepals and petals similar, 9 to 15 or more, 3- or more-seriate,
deciduous. Stamens numerous, many-seriate; filaments flat; anthers
adnate. Carpels many, on an elongated axis; stigma decurrent; ovules
2 or more. Fruit a lax or dense elongated spike of coriaceous, dorsally
dehiscing carpels. Seeds pendulous from the carpels by a long cord. (In
honor of P. A. Micheli, an early Italian botanist.)
Species about 15, India to China and Malaya, 2 introduced and one or
two indigenous species in the Philippines.
Flowers deep-yellow 1. M. champaca
Flowers white 2. M. longifolia
*1. M. CHAMPACA L. Sampaca or champaca (Sp.-Fil.).
A small tree, the young branchlets appressed-pubescent. Leaves ovatelanceolate
to oblong-lanceolate, gradually narrowed upward to the longacuminate
apex, 12 to 20 cm long 2.5 to 6 cm wide. Flowers yellowish-
brovni, very fragrant, 4 to 5 cm long; perianth segments usually 15 to
20. Ovaries pubescent. (Fl. Filip. pi. 191.)
Introduced from India or Malaya and only cultivated in the Philippines,
not spontaneous; occasional in Manila, fl. June-Dec, and probably in
other months.
*2. M. LONGIFLORA Blume. Champacang-puti (Tag.).
A small tree with elliptic-ovate to elliptic-oblong leaves, up to 20 cm
long and 9 cm wide. Flowers white.
Introduced and occasionally cultivated in Manila, fl. Sept., and other
months; a native of Java.
The fruits of Illicium anisatum L., the star-anise, locally known as
sanki, are imported from China in considerable quantities and are sold
in the local markets. The species however, does not grow in the Phil-
ippines.
54. ANONACEAE (CusTARD Apple or Lanutan Family)
Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent. Leaves alternate, exstipulate,
simple, entire. Flowers perfect. Sepals 3, free or connate, usually valvate.
Petals 6, hypogynous, 2-seriate, or the inner absent. Stamens many,
hypogynous, closely packed on the torus; filaments short or none; anthers
adnate, the connective produced into an oblong or truncate head. Ovaries
one or more, free or united; stigmas distinct; style none or very short;
ovules 1 or more. Fruit of 1 or more, sessile or stalked, 1- to many-
seeded, fleshy, indehiscent carpels, rarely dry and dehiscent.
Genera about 45, species 500, chiefly in the tropics of the Old World,
about 20 genera and 80 species known from the Philippines.