312 A FLORA OF MANILA 
LEEA Linnaeus 
Shrubs or small trees with alternate, large, 1- to 4-pinnate rarely simple 
leaves, the petiole dilated and sheathing at the base; leaflets ovate to 
oblong-lanceolate, toothed. Inflorescence opposite the upper leaves, corym- 
bosely cymose, often very large. Flowers red, yellow, or green. Calyx 5-, 
rarely 4-toothed. Petals as many as the calyx-teeth, connate below and 
adhering to the staminal-tube, free parts revolute. Stamens united at the 
base into a 5-toothed tube, the filaments inserted between the teeth, 
inflexed; anthers free and exserted, or connate and included. Ovary 3- 
to 6-celled; cells 1-ovuled. Fruit a 3- to 6-celled and seeded, succulent or 
rather dry, subglobose berry. (In honor of J. Lee, a Scotch horticulturist.) 
Species about 50, tropical Asia, Africa, and Malaya, few in Australia, 
about 14 in the Philippines. 
1. Leea manillensis Walp. Caliantan (Tag.); Amamali (Vis.). 
A shrub or small tree 3 to 6 m high, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 
50 to 80 em long, 3- or 4-pinnately compound, the rachis and branches 
somewhat jointed; leaflets elliptic-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 
6 to 15 cm long, sharply serrate. Inflorescence large, red, of dichotomous 
corymbose cymes, many-flowered, up to 50 cm in diameter. Flowers 5- 
merous, about 3 mm long, few opening at a time, the pedicels and calyx 
red, the petals pale-yellow. Fruit dark-red, depressed-globose, about 8 mm 
in diameter. (FI. Filip. pl. 60, L. sambucina.) 
In thickets, Pasay, Guadalupe, etc., fl. Apr._June; widely distributed in 
the Philippines. Endemic. 
83. TILIACEAE (LINDEN OR ANILAO FAMILY) 
Herbs, erect or scandent shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate, simple, 
entire, toothed, or lobed. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, the flowers 
solitary, fascicled, umbellate, cymose, or panicled. Flowers regular, perfect. 
Sepals 3 to 5, free, valvate. Petals as many as the sepals, rarely absent. 
Stamens mostly numerous, springing from a dilated torus or disk. Ovary 
superior, free, 2- to 10-celled. Fruit fleshy or dry, dehiscent or indehiscent, 
1- to many-seeded. 
Genera about 36, species about 400, in most parts of the world, but chiefly 
tropical, 11 genera and about 45 species in the Philippines. 
1. Shrubs or trees, sometimes climbing; fruit indehiscent. 
2. Flowers fascicled, umbellate, or paniculate; fruit a fleshy or fibrous 
tat (| i eS Ae te Serene e ples ee) Pe 1. Grewia 
2. Flowers solitary or in pairs; fruit a fleshy, many-seeded berry. 
3. Muntingia 
1. Suffrutescent herbs or undershrubs; fruit dry, dehiscent. 
2s. 'Gapmules) witiclely:.:..32)30.2. ea ne GR Be 4. Triumfetta 
2, Capsules not prickly... 5. Corchorus 
1. GREWIA Linnaeus 
Erect or scandent shrubs or trees, more or less stellate-pubescent. 
Leaves toothed or entire, base 3-nerved or nerves often more numerous. 
Flowers axillary, fascicled or umbelled, or sometimes in terminal panicles. 
Sepals 5, free. Petals ‘5, glandular at the base, sometimes wanting. Sta- 
mens many, on a raised torus. Ovary 2- to 4-celled. Drupe fleshy or 
