288 A FLORA OF MANILA 
about 8 mm long, wrinkled when dry, the seed somewhat compressed, 
rugose. (Fl. Filip. pl. 361.) 
Common, fil. March—Aug.; throughout the Philippines, introduced. India 
to Malaya. 
3. A. leptocladum Tul. Bignay, Bignay-pogo (Tag.). 
A shrub 1 to 4 m high, the branchlets and lower surface, of the leaves 
pubescent with short hairs. Leaves shining on the upper surface, oblong- 
ovate to elliptic-ovate, 5 to 10 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, base acute or rounded, 
apex shortly acuminate; petioles 2 to 3mm long. Racemes slender, axillary, 
pubescent, 3 to 7 cm long. Flowers greenish, small, 4-merous. Fruit in 
rather dense cylindric racemes about 5 cm long, 1.5 cm in diameter, when 
fresh globose, purple, glabrous, acid, 5 mm in diameter, when dry com- 
pressed and wrinkled. 
Common in thickets, fl. June-July throughout the Philippines. Endemic. 
8. CICCA Linnaeus 
A dioecious tree with distichous, alternate, odd-pinnate leaves crowded 
at the ends of the stout branches, the flowers fascicled along elongated 
racemes which are in turn fascicled on nodules along the branches below 
the leaves. Flowers small, numerous. Sepals 4, rarely 5 or 6, in both 
-sexes. Stamens 4, filaments free; anthers oblong, erect, opening vertically. 
Styles 3 or 4, free. Fruit fleshy, with a 3- or 4-celled bony endocarp. 
(Apparently from one of its Indian names.) 
A single Indo-Malayan species. 
*1. C. pisticHa L. (Phyllanthus distichus Muell.-Arg.). Iba (Tag.). 
A small, glabrous, deciduous tree 4 to 9 m high, the branches thickened, 
bearing nodules in the axils of the fallen leaves. Leaves unequally pinnate, 
crowded at the ends of the branches, 20 to 40 cm long; leaflets alternate, 
entire, oblong-ovate, pointed, 2 to 7 cm long, usually about 20. Racemes 
fascicled, 10 to 15 cm long, fascicled on protuberances on the branches 
below the leaves. Flowers pink, small, crowded in many-flowered fascicles 
along the racemes, male and female, usually on separate plants. Fruit 
globose, fleshy, acid, edible, greenish-white, 1 to 1.5 cm in diameter, con- 
taining a hard, bony, 6- or 8-grooved, 3- or 4-celled stone, each cell with a 
single seed. (FI. Filip. pl. 303, C. acidissima.) 
Occasionally cultivated for its edible fruits, fl. at intervals throughout 
the year; widely distributed in the Philippines in and: about towns, of 
prehistoric introduction. India to Madagascar, Malaya, and Polynesia; 
introduced in tropical America. 
9. BISCHOFIA Blume 
A glabrous tree with alternate, 3-foliolate leaves, the leaflets usually 
crenate. Flowers small, dioecious, apetalous, in axillary panicled racemes. 
Male flowers scattered or clustered. Sepals 5, concave, imbricate, concealing 
the anthers. Disk none. Stamens 5. Rudimentary ovary short, broad. 
Female flowers: Sepals caducous. Staminodes 5, small, or none. Ovary 
3- or 4-celled; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit globose, fleshy, with 3 or 4 cells. 
Seeds oblong. (In honor of G. W. Bischoff, a German botanist.) 
A monotypic genus. 
1. B. javanica Blume (B. trifoliata Hook. f.). Toog (Tag.). 
A glabrous tree reaching a height of 25 m. Leaves 3- foliolate, ovate to 
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