LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. Il. Manila, P. I., February 23, 1909. Art. 306 
SYNOPSIS OF FAGRAEA 
BY 
A. D. E. ELMER. 
FAGRAEA Thunb. 
Trees, shrubs, scandent or epiphytes. Leaves opposite, 
mostly thick and rigid, entire; petioles plated or dilated at 
the base. Inflorescence corymbs, racemes or elongated pani- 
cles, terminal or axillary, bracts small. Flowers large or 
rather small, white and mixed with a tinge of yellow, oc- 
casionally pink; the 5 calyx lobes shallow or sometimes cleft, 
broad, much imbricate, usually thick and rigid, with thinner 
margins; corolla tube long, the basal portions tubular, other- 
wise campanulate or funnel shaped; lobes 5, broad, twisted 
to the left in the bud; stamens 5, the filaments filiform 
or flattened; anthers oblong, usually cleft at the base; ovary 
mainly 2-celled; style filiform, stigma capitate; ovules nu- 
merous; seed immersed in a pulp, brown; testa crustaceous; 
albumen horny. 
Species about 30. In India, Japan, Malay Archipelago, 
Australia and in the Pacific Islands. Eight in the Philip- 
pines. 
