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382 A FLORA OF MANILA 
styles purplish. Fruit globose, entirely enclosed by the sepals, 5 to 6 
em in diameter, the pulp soft, fleshy, acid, edible. (FI. Filip. pl. 199, D. 
speciosa.) 
A single tree, Nactajan, fl. most of the year; throughout the Philippines 
at low altitudes. Endemic. 
88. GUTTIFERAE (GARCINIA OR PALOMARIA FAMILY) 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, often with yellowish juice. Leaves opposite, 
entire, thin or thick, often shining. Flowers solitary,.cymose, racemed, or 
panicled, axillary or terminal, regular, perfect, polygamous, or dioecious. 
Sepals 2 to 6, imbricate. Petals as many as the sepals, rarely fewer or more. 
Stamens many, filaments free or monadelphous, or united in bundles. 
Ovary superior 1- to many-celled; styles one, or as many as the cells, free 
or united; ovules 1 to many. Fruit capsular, dehiscent, or baccate and 
indehiscent. 
Genera 49, species about 850, in most parts of the world, 5 genera and 
about 50 species in the Philippines. 
1. CALOPHYLLUM Linnaeus 
Trees with opposite, coriaceous, shining leaves, with very numerous, 
close, parallel, spreading veins. Flowers polygamous, in axillary and 
terminal racemes or panicles. Sepals 4, imbricate. Petals 4, sometimes 
more. Stamens very numerous, the filaments free or connate below. 
Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled. Fruit a globose or ovoid drupe, the pericarp thin. 
(Greek “beautiful” and “leaf.’’) 
Species about 60, chiefly in tropical Asia and Malaya, few in America, 
about 12 in the Philippines. 
1. C. inophyttum L. Palomaria (Sp.-Fil.); Dancalan (Tag.). 
A medium-sized or large tree, reaching a height of 20 m. Leaves coria- 
ceous, shining, elliptic to obovate-elliptic, rounded, 9 to 18 cm long. Racemes 
axillary, 5 to 10 em long, few-flowered. Flowers white, 2 to 2.5 cm in 
diameter, fragrant, the inner 2 sepals like the petals. Fruit globose, 3 to 
4 cm in diameter. (FI. Filip. pl. 256.) 
Pasay beach, also occasionally cultivated, fl. all the year; throughout the 
Philippines along the seashore. India to Madagascar, Malaya, and Poly- 
nesia. 
89. ELATINACEAE (BERGIA FAMILY) 
Annual herbs or low undershrubs, erect or spreading, branched, glabrous 
or pubescent. Leaves opposite, serrate or entire. Flowers small, axillary, 
solitary or fascicled, pedicelled. Sepals 5, free, imbricate. Petals 5, free, 
imbricate. Stamens 5 to 10, hypogynous, free. Ovary superior, free, ovoid, 
5-celled; styles 5, short, or stigmas sessile; ovules numerous, on the inner 
angles of the cells. Fruit a small, 5-celled, 5-valved, septicidal capsule. 
Genera 2, species about 20, warmer parts of the world, a single genus 
and species in the Philippines. 
BERGIA Linnaeus 
Characters of the Family as given above. (In honor of P. J. Bergius, 
a Danish botanist.) 
Species about 14, 1 in the Philippines. 
