348 A FLORA OF MANILA 
long hairs, each lobe bearing a short, apical bristle. Fruit small, the seed 
germinating on the tree and forming a cylindric radicle 30 ecm long or 
more prior to its fall. (FI. Filip. pl. 415, B. polyandra.) 
Along tidal estuaries, common about Malabon, fl. all the year; along 
tidal streams throughout the Philippines. Malaya to Australia. 
The very closely allied Bruguiera gymnorrhiza Lam., also occurs in the 
Philippines, but I have seen no specimens from our area. It differs from 
B. eriopetala chiefly in its petals being nearly glabrous above, and with 2 
to 4 bristles on each lobe. 
2. B. cylindrica (L.) Blume (B. caryophylloides Blume). Bacauan, Bu- 
sain (Tag.). 
A glabrous tree 4 to 8 m high. Leaves rather thin, 7 to 12 cm long, 
shining, elliptic-oblong, narrowed at both ends, acute or acuminate. In- 
florescence in the upper axils, about as long as the petioles, the pedicels 
umbellately 2- or 3-flowered. Flowers greenish, about 1 cm long, the calyx 
7- or 8-cleft, the lobes linear, longer than the bifid petals, the latter bearing 
3 or 4 bristles at the tip of each lobe and one in the notch. (FI. Filip. 
pl. 186.) . 
In mangrove swamps, Malabon, fl. most of the year; widely distributed 
in the Philippines in mangrove swamps. India’ to Formosa, southward to 
Malaya. 
102. COMBRETACEAE! (TEMINALIA OR TALISAY FAMILY) 
Trees, shrubs, or woody vines. Leaves alternate or opposite, entire. 
_ Flowers spicate or racemose, the spikes or racemes sometimes panicled. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary and produced above it, the limb of 4 or 5 
valvate lobes. Petals 4 or 5, or wanting. Stamens as many as, or twice as 
many as the calyx-lobes, inserted on the calyx. Ovary inferior, 1-celled; 
ovules few, pendulous. Fruit coriaceous or drupe-like, indehiscent, ovoid, 
angular, or longitudinally winged or keeled. 
Genera 15, species about 250, of wide tropical distribution, 4 genera and 
18 species in the Philippines. 
1. Petals none; large trees with small flowers..........................-. 1. Terminalia 
1. Petals present; trees, shrubs, or vines. 
2. Calyx-tube slender, produced 4 to 7 cm beyond the ovary; vines. 
2. Quisqualis 
2. Calyx-tube short. 
3. Erect shrubs or trees; calyx persistent, fruit not winged. 
3. Lumnitzera 
3. Vines with winged fruits, the calyx deciduous.............. 4. Combretum 
1. TERMINALIA Linnaeus 
Large trees with opposite or subopposite leaves more or less crowded at 
the ends of the branches, often glandular at the base or on the petioles. 
Flowers small, spicate or racemose, sometimes panicled, perfect, or the 
upper ones males. Calyx-tube produced above the ovary, the limb cam- 
For a consideration of the known Philippine species of this family see 
Merrill, E. D., “A Preliminary Revision of Philippine Combretaceae.” 
Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 614-650. 


