RUTACEAE 269 
em long, 2 to 7 cm wide. Flowers small, white, about 6 mm in diameter, 
borne in axillary, solitary or paired, interrupted, narrow, cymose panicles, 
5 em long or less. Calyx-teeth 5, short. Petals oblong-ovate, 5 mm long, 
white. Stamens 10. Fruit fleshy, globose, pink or reddish, 1 cm in 
diameter, containing a single globose seed 5 mm in diameter. (FI. Filip. 
pl. 187, G. trifoliata.) 
Occasional in thickets and hedges, fl. most of the year; widely distributed 
in the Philippines at low and medium altitudes. India to southern China, 
Malaya, and tropical Australia. 
2. MURRAYA Linnaeus 
Small trees or shrubs with odd-pinnate leaves. Flowers in axillary 
or terminal small cymes. Calyx small, deeply 5-cleft. Petals 5, imbricate, 
free. Stamens 10, inserted around an elongated disk, the filaments slender, 
the alternating ones shorter. Ovary 2- to 5-celled, narrowed above into 
the style; ovules 1 or 2 in each cell. Fruit small, fleshy, 1-, sometimes 
2-seeded. (In honor of J. A. Murray, a Danish botanist.) 
Species 4 or 5 in tropical Asia and Malaya, 2 in the Philippines. 
1. M. exotica L. Camuning (Tag., Vis.). 
A shrub or small glabrous tree with very hard wood, 3 to 8 m high. 
Leaves 8 to 15 cm long, the leaflets usually 3 to 7, sometimes reduced to 1; 
leaflets oblong to ovate, elliptic or subrhomboid, blunt-acuminate, entire, 
2 to 7 cm long, or in one form up to 14 ecm in length. Cymes short, 
terminal or in the upper axils, usually few-flowered. Flowers white, very 
fragrant, 1.5 to 2 cm long. Fruit ovoid, fleshy, red, 1 to 1.5 em long. 
(Fl. Filip. pl. 155, M. sumatrana.) 
Frequently cultivated and also abundant in dry thickets about Manila, 
fl. July-Sept., and probably in other months; widely distributed in the 
Philippines. India to China southward to Australia and Polynesia. 
3. CLAUSENA Burmann 
Erect, spineless shrubs or small trees, aromatic when crushed. Leaves 
odd-pinnate. Flowers small, in terminal or axillary panicles. Calyx 4- 
or 5-lobed. Petals 4 or 5, free, imbricate. Stamens 8 to 10, inserted 
around an elongated disk, the filaments enlarged below, subulate at the 
tips, the alternating ones shorter. Ovary stipitate, usually 4- or 5-celled; 
ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit a fleshy, globose or ovoid, 2- to 5-celled berry. 
(After P. Clausen, a Danish botanist.) 
Species about 20, tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia, 4 or 5 in the 
Philippines. 
1. C. anisum-olens (Blanco) Merr. Cayomanis, Calomata (Tag.). 
A small tree 3 to 6 m high, nearly or quite glabrous. Leaves 20 to 30 
em long; leaflets 7 to 11, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 5 to 11 cm long, 
very aromatic when crushed, acuminate, crenate, base inequilateral. Pan- 
icles 15 to 20 em long, terminal and in the upper axils, narrowly 
pyramidal. Flowers greenish-white, fragrant, about 8 mm in diameter, 
5-merous. Fruit globose or ovoid, nearly 1 cm in diameter, whitish when 
mature. 
Occasionally cultivated, Singalon, fl. May-June; rather widely distri- 
buted in the Philippines. Endemic. 
