212 A FLORA OF MANILA 
56. HERNANDIACEAE (HERNANDIA FAMILY) 
Trees, shrubs, or woody vines, with alternate, entire, simple or 3- foliolate, 
exstipulate leaves. Inflorescence cymose or paniculate, axillary or terminal. 
EKlowers regular, perfect, or through abortion monoecious, the perianth- 
segments 3 to 10, valvate, in two series, or the corolla wanting. Stamens 
few, inserted in a single row, the filaments with glands or staminodes at 
their base; anthers introrse, 2-celled, opening by recurved valves. Ovary 
inferior, 1-celled, with a single pendulous ovule. Fruit various, inde- 
hiscent, sometimes winged. 
Genera 4, species 27, in all tropical countries, 3 genera and 4 species in 
the Philippines. 
1. ILLIGERA Blume 
‘Climbing shrubs with alternate, 3-foliolate leaves, the leaflets entire. 
Inflorescence axillary, elongated, lax, cymose. Flowers 5-merous, brac- 
teolate, the calyx tube shortly constricted above the ovary, the limb 5-lobed. 
Petals 5, valvate, oblong, alternate with the calyx-lobes and about as long. 
Stamens 5, epigynous, the filaments with a pair of staminodes on each side 
near the base. Ovary 1-celled, inferior, 1-ovuled; style simple, filiform; 
stigma dilated. Fruit indehiscent, with 2 broad lateral wings, and fre- 
quently with two additional keels or narrow wings. (In honor of J. K. W. 
IHiger, a German naturalist.) 
Species 13, 1 in Africa, the remaining 12 India to southern China and 
Formosa southward to the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, 2 in the 
Philippines. 
1. 1. luzonensis (Presl) Merr. (J. meyeniana Kth.). 
A vine reaching a height of 4 to 5 m, nearly glabrous except the some- 
what pubescent younger parts and inflorescence. Leaflets broadly ovate, 
somewhat acuminate, base rounded or slightly cordate, 5 to 10 cm long. 
Cymes axillary, lax, up to 20 cm in length. Flowers pinkish to purplish- 
red, 8 to 10 mm long. Fruits somewhat 4-angled, including the lateral 
wings 2 to 3 cm long, 4 to 5 em wide, the wings rather thin, rounded, the 
two additional keels or narrow wings between the broad ones 5 mm wide 
or less. 
In thickets, Masambong to Diliman, fl. Sept.—Oct.; widely distributed 
in the Philippines. Formosa. 
57. PAPAVERACEAE (Poppy FAMILY) 
Annual herbs with yellow juice. Leaves alternate, sessile, sinuate-lobed, 
spiny. Flowers large, yellow, perfect, regular. Sepals 2 or 3. Petals 4 
to 6. Stamens indefinite. Ovary 1-celled; style short; stigma 4- to 7-lobed; 
ovules very many on 4 to 7 parietal placentas. Capsule dehiscing at the 
top by short valves; seeds many. 
Genera 30, species about 300. Represented in the Philippmes by a 
single introduced genus and species. 
1. ARGEMONE Linnaeus 
Characters of the Family as given above. (From a Greek name signify- 
ing a desease of the eye, for which the juice of a plant so called was 
considered to be a remedy.) 
Species 6 in tropical America, 1 now found in many other countries. 
