A flora of Manila - Rainforestation

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A FLORA OF MANILA
6. Fruit a berry 3. Phyllanthiis
6. Fruit of 3 to 6 cocci enclosed in a fleshy pericarp.
7. Calyx truncate or minutely toothed, enlarged in fruit.
5. Breynia
7. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, not enlai-ged in fruit 6. Fluggea
5. Flowers in axillary or terminal spikes; fruit a small drupe,
endocarp 1-celled 7. Antidesma
5. Flowers in elongated racemes which are fascicled on the branches
below the leaves; fruit a drupe, the endocarp 3- or 4-celled.
4. Leaves digitately compound, 3-foliolate; flowers panicled.
1. Cells of the ovary 1-ovuled.
2. Petals present.
3. Flowers in terminal or axillary cymes or panicles.
8. Cicca
9. Bischofia
4. Shrubs or suffrutescent herbs; monoecious 10. Jatropha
4. Trees; dioecious 11. Aleurites
3. Flowers in axillary racemes.
4. Glabrous; calyx-lobes imbricate 12. Codiaeum
4. Stellate-tomentose; calyx-lobes valvate 13. Sumbavia
2. Petals wanting.
3. Styles very long-fimbriate or lacerate; flowers in long spikes, the
females often with numerous large bracts 14. Acalypha
3. Styles not fimbriate.
4. Leaves 3-foliolate 15. Hevea
4. Leaves simple.
5. Stamens numerous.
6. Filaments free.
7. Anthers 2-celled 16. Mallotus
7. Anthers 3- or 4-celled 17. Macaranga
6. Filaments variously united in bundles.
7. Flowers in axillary spikes; leaves narrow, entire.
18. Homonoia
7. Flowers in terminal panicles or racemes; leaves large,
deeply palmately lobed 19. Ricinus
5. Stamens 10, in 2 rows; flowers racemose or paniculate; leaves
deeply lobed 20. Manihot
5. Stamens 8; flowers small; the males in dense spikes; leaves
toothed 21. Alchornea
5. Stamens 3; flowers small; leaves entire; shrubs with abundant
milky sap 22. Excoecaria
1. EUPHORBIA Linnaeus
Annual or perennial spreading or erect herbs or shrubs, with milky
juice, sometimes fleshy and cactus-like. Inflorescence of many male and
one female flower in a small, 4- or 5-lobed, turbinate or campanulate,
perianth-like involucre, the lobes with thick glands at the sinuses, the
glands often with a petal-like, spreading, white or colored limb, the involu-
cres fascicled or cymose. Male flower a pedicelled stamen without floral
envelopes. Female flowers a pedicelled, 3-celled, 3-ovuled ovary in the
center of the involucre, also without floral envelopes; styles 3, free or
united, simple or 2-fid. Capsule of 3, 2-valved, dehiscent cocci, separating