A flora of Manila - Rainforestation

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A FLORA OF MANILA
2. EHRETIA Linnaeus
Erect shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, entire or toothed. Inflorescence
of terminal or axillary corymbs or panicles, or flowers solitary and
axillary. Flowers small, white, 5-merous. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube
cylindric or short, 5-lobed, lobes spreading or reflexed. Stamens 5, inserted
on the corolla-tube. Ovary 2-celled, cells 2-ovuled; style terminal, cleft
or 2-cleft. Fruit a small, 4- to 1-seeded drupe. (In honor of D. G. Ehret,
a Bavarian botanist.)
Species 50, mostly in tropics of the Old World, 4 in the Philippines.
Leaves ample, 8 to 18 cm long; styles single, bifid; a tree.
1. E. navesii
Leaves small, 1 to 6 cm long, in alternate fascicles; styles usually 2, undivided;
a small shrub 2. E. microphylla
1. E. navesii Vid.
A tree 4 to 10 m high, the inflorescence and leaves, when young, somewhat
pubescent beneath, becoming glabrous or nearly so. Leaves oblong-
ovate, elliptic-ovate, or ovate, entire, 8 to 18 cm long, acuminate, base usually
rounded. Corymbs terminal and axillary, peduncled, 5 to 10 cm long, few-
to many-flowered. Flowers white, about 8 mm long. Style simple, bifid.
Fruit ovoid, somewhat fleshy, about 5 mm long. (Fl. Filip. pi. 70, E.
virgata.)
In thickets, Masambong to Guadalupe, occasional, fl. May-June; widely
distributed in the Philippines. Endemic.
2. E. microphylla Lam. (E. buxifolia Roxb.). Cha, Chaa-bundoc (Tag.).
An erect, much branched shrub 1 to 4 m high. Leaves in alternate fascicles,
obovate to oblong-obovate, scabrous, 1 to 6 cm long, entire or somewhat
toothed or lobed near the apex, base narrowed, subsessile or shortly
petioled. Flowers axillary, solitary, or 2 to 4 on a common peduncle, the
inflorescence shorter than the leaves, somewhat hairy. Calyx-lobes green,
somewhat hairy, linear, 5 to 6 mm long. Corolla white, 5 mm long, the
lobes oblong, obtuse. Fruit drupaceous, globose, somewhat fleshy, yellow,
4 to 5 mm in diameter, the stone globose, 4-seeded. (Fl. Filip. pi. 72, E.
heterophylla.)
In dry thickets and open places opposite Guadalupe, near Fort McKinley,
etc., fl. all the year; widely distributed in the Philippines. India to Formosa
and Malaya.
3. TOURNEFORTIA Linnaeus
Erect trees or shrubs or climbing vines. Leaves alternate, entire. In-
florescence terminal, forked, scorpoid. Flowers many, small, sessile or
subsessile, densely arranged, white or greenish. Sepals 5 or 4. Corolla-
tube cylindric, the 5 or 4 small lobes spreading. Stamens 5 or 4, included
in the corolla-tube. Ovary 4-celled; style terminal, short; ovules 1 in each
cell. Fruit small, ovoid, somewhat drupe-like, not distinctly separating
into 2 or 4, 2- or 1-seeded pyrenes. (In honor of J. D. de Tournefort, a
French botanist.)
Species about 100 of wide tropical distribution, 3 in the Philippines.
1. T. sarmentosa Lam.
A scandent, somewhat woody vine of indefinite length, somewhat pubes-
cent. Leaves oblong, green, shining, somewhat harsh, 8 to 15 cm long,