A flora of Manila - Rainforestation

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A FLORA OF MANILA
Ovary usually free, 2- to 5-celled; style simple; stigma capitate or disk-
like; ovules usually 2 in each cell. Fruit capsular, drupe-like, or berry-
like, dehiscent or indehiscent. Seeds various.
Genera 47, species about 800, in the tropics of both hemispheres, 18
genera, and about 90 species in the Philippines.
1. Leaves simple; a very low undershrub or herb 1. Turraea
1. Leaves 3-foliolate; trees with baccate edible fruits 2. Sandoricum
1. Leaves simply pinnate.
2, Flowers globose, small.
3. Stamens 5 or 6, rarely more, in 1 series; ovary 1- or 2-celled.
3. Aglaia
3. Stamens 10, in 2 series; ovary 3- to 5-celled 4. Lansium
2. Flowers elongated, cylindric 5. Dysoxylum
1. Leaves 2- or 3-pinnate 6. Melia
1. TURRAEA Linnaeus
Trees, shrubs, or in our representative a low subherbaceous undershrub.
Leaves simple, entire or toothed. Inflorescence axillary, racemose, few-
flowered. Flowers white or yellow, elongated. Calyx 4- or 5-fid. Petals
4 or 5, elongated, imbricate, spatulate. Staminal-tube elongated, toothed
at the apex; anthers 8 or 10, alternating with the teeth, inserted just
within the mouth; Disk annular or none. Ovary 4- or more-celled; cells
2-ovuled. Fruit a 4- or more-celled loculicidal capsule. (In honor of G.'
Turre, an early Italian botanist.)
Species 25 in tropical Asia and Africa, through Malaya, to Australia,
2 in the Philippines.
1. T. humilis (Blanco) Merr.
An erect, usually unbranched undershrub or suffrutescent herb 20 cm
high or less, slightly pubescent. Leaves simple, elliptic-ovate, 2.5 to 8
cm long, margins sinuate-toothed. Racemes axillary, usually 3-flowered,
short, erect. Flowers white, about 3.5 cm long. Corolla-tube slender, the
lobes 5. (Fl. Filip. pi 181, T. pumila.)
On banks about rocks and ledges, Guadalupe, San Juan del Monte, etc.,
fl. June; known in the Philippines only from the vicinity of Manila. Java.
2. SANDORICUM Cavanilles
Trees with 3-foliolate leaves and 5-merous flowers in axillary panicles.
Calyx cup-shaped. Petals imbricate in bud, spreading. Staminal-tube
cylindric, nearly as long as the petals, toothed. Stamens 10 or 8, included.
Disk surrounding the ovary, laciniate. Ovary 5-celled, cells 2-ovuled.
Fruit a large, fleshy, 3- to 5-celled berry, seeds 1 in each cell surrounded
by a translucent, fleshy pulp. (From its Malay name, santoor.)
Species about 7, India and Malaya, 2 in the Philippines.
1. S. KOETJAPE (Burm. f.) Merr. (S. indicum Cav.). Santol (Tag.).
A tree reaching a height of 15 m, the young branches and leaves
softly pubescent. Leaflets 10 to 25 cm long, acuminate, base rounded or
obtuse, elliptic to oblong-ovate. Panicles 10 to 20 cm long, the flowers
numerous, somewhat fascicled on the branchlets, greenish-yellow or straw-