806 A FLORA OF MANILA 
5. GUIOA Cavanilles 
Shrubs or trees with alternate pinnate leaves; leaflets not exceeding 10, 
entire, mostly abruptly pinnate, opposite, subopposite, or alternate. Pani- 
cles axillary and subterminal, ample, many-flowered. Flowers nearly reg- 
ular, polygamo-dioecious. Sepals 4 or 5, free or somewhat united at the base, 
rounded, concave, imbricate, in two rows. Petals as many as the sepals, 
with 2 scales at the base inside. Disk annular, entire or interrupted. 
Stamens 8, inserted within the disk. Ovary 3-angled, 3-celled, obovoid to 
obcordate; ovules solitary. Fruit capsular, obovoid, 3-celled, 3-winged, 
loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds more or less compressed, arillate. (In honor 
of J. Guio y Sanchez, an artist on the Malaspina Expedition.) 
Species about 35, India to southern China, southward to Australia and 
Polynesia, 10 in the Philippines. 
1. G. perrottetii (Blume) Radlk. Salab (Tag.). 
A small tree 5 to 10 m high, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 14 to 
25 cm long, alternate. Leaflets 4 to 8, subalternate, lanceolate, to oblong- 
lanceolate, straight or somewhat falcate, 6 to 12 cm long, apex somewhat 
acuminate. Inflorescence axillary, paniculate, 7 to 12 cm long, the flowers 
numerous, subracemosely disposed on the elongated branches. Flowers 
white, about 5 mm in diameter, sepals and petals ciliate on the margins. 
Capsules red, stipitate, broadly obovate, apex retuse, about 1.5 cm wide, 
consisting of three spreading, rounded lobes. 
In thickets Masambong, fil. Dec._Jan.; widely distributed in the Phil- 
ippines. Endemic. 
6. ARYTERA Blume 
Shrubs or trees with alternate pinnate leaves, the leaflets few, entire, 
the axils of the nerves beneath usually glandular. Panicles axillary and 
terminal, many-flowered. Flowers small. Petals 5, usually with two scales 
at the base inside. Disk annular. Stamens 8, exserted. Ovary 2- or 3- 
celled, usually lobed. Capsules dehiscent, of 1 to 8 ellipsoid lobes, or 
angled. Seeds entirely or nearly sorrounded by the aril. (Greek “a small 
bowl.’’) 
Species about 20, India to China, southward to Australia and Polynesia, 
2 or 8 in the Philippines. 
1. A. litoralis Blume. Alasan (Tag.). 
A shrub or tree, 4 to 10 m high, glabrous except the younger parts and 
inflorescence. Leaves 20 to 30 cm long; leaflets 3 to 6, subopposite or 
alternate; oblong-ovate to broadly lanceolate, entire, acuminate, base acute, 
8 to 18 cm long, with prominent glands in the axils on the lower surface. 
Panicles axillary and terminal, rusty-pubescent, 10 to 14 cm long, many- 
flowered. Flowers yellowish-white, somewhat fragrant, 2 to 3 mm in 
diameter. Capsule usually of 2, sometimes only 1, orange-yellow, ellip- 
soid to oblong lobes about 1.5 cm long, ultimately splitting down one side; 
seed nearly covered by the aril. 
In dry thickets opposite Guadalupe, fl. Apr.; widely distributed in the 
Philippines. India to China, southward to Malaya. 
80. BALSAMINACEAE (BALSAM OR CAMANTIGUI FAMILY) 
Erect, succulent, more or less branched herbs. Leaves opposite, alter- 
nate, or somewhat whorled, simple, exstipulate. Flowers irregular, per- 
