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flowers: Sepals 4 or 5, 2 or more usually tubercled or spurred on the back. 
Stamens 4 or 5, inflexed in bud. Female flowers: Sepals 3 to 5, very mi- 
nute, much shorter than the ovary. Achene minute, ellipsoid or fusiform, 
subtended by the very minute perianth. (Greek “drive” and “filament” from 
the elastic stamens.) 
Species probably about 100, tropical Africa, Asia, through Malaya to 
Australia and Polynesia, 43 in the Philippines. 
1. E. luzonense C. B. Rob. 
An erect, annual, succulent, usually simple annual 10 to 50 cm high, 
glabrous but marked with cystoliths. Leaves alternate, distichous, mostly 
lanceolate and from 3 to 7 cm long, rather coarsely dentate, apex acu- 
minate, base inequilateral, 3-nerved. Male receptacles axillary, peduncled, 
usually 5 to 6 mm in diameter, the perianth deeply 4-parted, the segments 
about 2mm long. Female receptacles axillary, sessile or shortly peduncled, 
solitary or fascicled, up to 8 mm in greatest diameter, the perianth very 
minute, with 3 rounded lobes. 
On damp cliffs, Guadalupe, near Fort McKinley, etc., fl. Sept—Dec.; 
widely distributed in Luzon. Endemic. 
7. POUZOLZIA Gaudichaud 
Herbs or shrubs with alternate leaves, or the lower ones, rarely all, 
opposite, usually entire, 3-nerved, the upper ones gradually smaller. 
Flowers monoecious, rarely dioecious, in axillary fascicles. Male flowers: 
Perianth 4- or 5-lobed, rarely 3-lobed. Stamens 4 or 5, rarely 3. Rudi- 
mentary ovary oblong or clavate. Female flowers: Perianth tubular, 2- to 
4-toothed. Ovary straight; stigma penicellate, the slender style jointed on 
top of the ovary. Achenes ovate, surrounded by the perianth-segments or 
slightly exserted. (In honor of P. C. M. de Pouzolz, a French botanist.) 
Species about 35, tropics of the Old World, 4 in the Philippines. 
1. P. zeylanica (L.) Benn. (P. indica Gaudich.). 
A perennial, more or less prostrate or spreading herb, the stems terete, 
sometimes 1.5 m long, often less, the whole plant glabrous or more or less 
pubescent. Leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, entire, acuminate, thin, 
the base rounded or obtuse, 3-nerved, 2 to 7 cm long, mostly alternate. 
Flowers small, 4-merous, in axillary clusters, the staminate ones greenish 
or tinged with purple, the perianth 4-lobed, the stamens white, exserted, 
the pistillate ones in the same fascicles with the staminate ones. Fruit 
small, longitudinally ribbed, the style deciduous. 
In low, open grass lands and waste places, common and very variable, fl. 
all the year; throughout the Philippines. India to China and Malaya. 
38. LORANTHACEAE! (MISTLETOE FAMILY) 
Parasitic evergreen shrubs. Leavés alternate, opposite, or whorled, 
entire, usually thick and coriaceous, sometimes wanting. Flowers perfect 
or 1-sexual, racemed, spicate, fascicled, or umbellate, usually axillary, 
bracteate and 2-bracteolate. Calyx adnate to the ovary, the limb truncate, 
rarely toothed, or none. Petals 4 to 8, free or connate, valvate. Stamens 
*For a consideration of the known Philippine representatives of this 
family see Merrill, E. D., “A Revision of Philippine Loranthaceae.” 
Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 129-153. 
