A flora of Manila - Rainforestation

SAPINDACEAE 303
1. SALACIA Linnaeus
Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, exstipulate, entire or somewhat
toothed. Flowers few to many, usually in axillary, clusters, more rarely
cymose. Calyx small, 5-lobed. Petals 5, imbricate. Stamens usually 3,
sometimes 2 or 4, inserted on the disk. Ovary conical, immersed in the disk.
3-celled; style very short; stip:ma simple or 3-lobed; ovules 2 to 8 in each
cell, in 1 or 2 series, inserted in the inner angle. Fruit fleshy, drupaceous,
indehiscent. (A name of Greek mythology, the wife of Neptune.)
Species about 85, in all tropical countries, 3 or 4 in the Philippines.
1. S. prinoides (Willd.) DC.
A climbing shrub reaching a height of 4 m or more, quite glabrous.
Leaves oblong, shining, 8 to 16 cm long, entire or faintly and distantly
toothed, acute or slightly acuminate, base usually acute. Cymes axillary,
solitary, peduncled, dichotomous, few-flowered, 2.5 to 3 cm long. Sepals
very small. Petals 5, oblong, obtuse, yellow, about 3.5 mm long, spreading
or reflexed. Stamens 3, rarely 4. Fruit ovoid or globose, red, about 1 cm
in diameter, 1-seeded. (Fl. Filip. pi. 86.)
In dry thickets opposite Fort McKinley, fl. Jan.-Apr.; widely distributed
in the Philippines. India* and Ceylon to Malaya.
79. SAPINDACEAE (Soapberry or Alupag Family)
Shrubs or trees, or in Cardiospermum wiry, herbaceous, tendril-bearing
vines. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple, pinnate, 3-foliolate, or
palmately compound, the leaflets entire or toothed, in the pinnate leaves
alternate or opposite. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, racemose or
panicled. Flowers small, regular, irregular, or unsymmetrical, sometimes
polygamo-dioecious. Calyx 4- or 5-lobed, often unequal, the lobes or sepals
imbricate or valvate. Petals free, equal or unequal, 4 or 5, rarely none,
often bearded or with a scale at the base within. Disk annular or uni-
lateral. Stamens 5 to 10, inserted inside or outside of the disk; filaments
often pubescent, free. Ovary frequently excentric, entire or lobed, 1- to
4-celled, cells 1- or 2-ovuled. Fruit capsular, dehiscent or indehiscent, or
sometimes berry-like, entire or lobed. Seeds arillate or naked.
Genera about 130, species more than 1,000, in all parts of the world,
chiefly tropical, 25 genera and about 70 species in the Philippines.
1. Tendril bearing herbaceous vines with biternate leaves, the capsules
inflated 1- Cardiospermum
1. Erect shrubs or trees.
2. Fruit indehiscent.
3. Shrubs with palmately 3- to 5-foliolate leaves 2. Allophylus
3. Leaves pinnate.
4. Basal leaflets large and stipule-like; shrubs with smooth, fleshy
fruits - 3. Otophora
4. Basal leaflets not enlarged; trees with roughened or tubercled
fruits 3. Euphoria
2. Fruit dehiscent.
3. Capsules obovoid, 3-winged, 3-celled; leaves not glandular beneath.
• 5. Guioa
3. Capsules of one or two, ellipsoid, terete lobes; leaves with prominent
glands in the axils of the nerves on the lower surface.... 6. Arytera