274 A FLORA OF MANILA 
Ovary usually free, 2- to 5-celled; style simple; stigma capitate or disk- 
like; ovules usually 2 in each cell. Fruit capsular, drupe-like, or berry- 
like, dehiscent or indehiscent. Seeds various. 
Genera 47, species about 800, in the tropics of both hemispheres, 18 
genera, and about 90 species in the Philippines. 
1. Leaves simple; a very low undershrub or herb........................ 1. Turraea 
1. Leaves 38-foliolate; trees with baccate edible fruits............ 2. Sandoricum 
1. Leaves simply pinnate. 
2. Flowers globose, small. 
3. Stamens 5 or 6, rarely more, in 1 series; ovary 1- or 2-celled. 
:; 3. Aglaia 
3. Stamens 10, in 2 series; ovary 3- to 5-celled.................... 4. Lansium 
a. Plowers ‘elongated, cylindric.) eS ee ee ennt oe 5. Dysoxylum 
Moenves Z-ror S-pinn assess See OE ea cae eecaeean deere 6. Melia 
1. TURRAEA Linnaeus 
Trees, shrubs, or in our representative a low subherbaceous undershrub. 
Leaves simple, entire or toothed. Inflorescence axillary, racemose, few- 
flowered. Flowers white or yellow, elongated. Calyx 4- or 5-fid. Petals 
4 or 5, elongated, imbricate, spatulate. Staminal-tube elongated, toothed 
at the apex; anthers 8 or 10, alternating with the teeth, inserted just 
within the mouth: Disk annular or none. Ovary 4- or more-celled; cells 
2-ovuled. Fruit a 4- or more-celled loculicidal capsule. (In honor of G. 
Turre, an early Italian botanist.) 
Species 25 in tropical Asia and Africa, through Malaya, to Australia, 
2 in the Philippines. 
1. T. humilis (Blanco) Merr. 
An erect, usually unbranched undershrub or suffrutescent herb 20 cm 
high or less, slightly pubescent. Leaves simple, elliptic-ovate, 2.5 to 8 
cm long, margins sinuate-toothed. Racemes axillary, usually 3-flowered, 
short, erect. Flowers white, about 3.5 cm long. Corolla-tube slender, the 
lobes 5. (FI. Filip. pl. 181, T. pumila.) 
On banks about rocks and ledges, Guadalupe, San Sit del Monte, etc., 
fl. June; known in the Philippines only from the vicinity of Manila. Java. 
2. SANDORICUM Cavanilles 
Trees with 3-foliolate leaves and 5-merous flowers in axillary panicles. 
Calyx cup-shaped. Petals imbricate in bud, spreading. Staminal-tube 
cylindric, nearly as long as the petals, toothed. Stamens 10 or 8, included. 
Disk surrounding the ovary, laciniate. Ovary 5-celled, cells 2-ovuled. 
Fruit a large, fleshy, 3- to 5-celled berry, seeds 1 in each cell surrounded 
by a translucent, fleshy pulp. (From its Malay name, santoor.) 
Species about 7, India and Malaya, 2 in the Philippines. 
1. S. KOETJAPE (Burm. f.) Merr. (S. indicum Cav.). Santol (Tag.). 
A tree reaching a height of 15 m, the young branches and leaves 
softly pubescent. Leaflets 10 to 25 cm long, acuminate, base rounded or 
obtuse, elliptic to oblong-ovate. Panicles 10 to 20 cm long, the flowers 
numerous, somewhat fascicled on the branchlets, greenish-yellow or straw- 
