COMBRETACEAE 349 
panulate, 5-lobed, deciduous. Petals none. Stamens 10. Ovary 1-celled, 
inferior. Fruit ovoid, usually compressed and keeled or winged, indehiscent, 
1-seeded. (From the Latin, on account of the crowded terminal leaves and 
flowers of most species.) 
Species about 100, tropics generally, but mostly in Africa, Asia, and 
Malaya, about 11 in the Philippines, a single one in our area. 
1. T. catappa L. Talisay (Tag.); Almendras (Sp.-Fil.); Lugo (Il.); 
Indian Almond. 
A large tree, sometimes reaching a height of 25 m, glabrous or nearly so. 
Leaves shining, obovate, tapering below to the narrow and cordate base, 
10 to 25 cm long, the petioles short. Flowers white, small, spicate, the 
spikes axillary, simple, 6 to 18 cm long. Fruit compressed, ellipsoid in 
outline, prominently 2-ridged or keeled down the sides, 3 to 6 cm long. 
(Fl. Filip. pl. 144.) 
Cultivated to some extent in Manila for a shade tree, fl. most of the year; 
widely distributed in the Philippines near the seashore. India to Malaya, 
planted in many other tropical countries. 
2. QUISQUALIS Linnaeus 
Scandent shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers long, in short axil- 
lary or terminal spikes. Calyx-tube slender and much prolonged above 
the ovary, deciduous, its limb 5-lobed. Petals 5. Stamens 10, short. Ovary 
1-celled; style filiform. Fruit 5-angled or 5-winged. Seed solitary. (Latin 
“who” and “of what kind,” probably originally adopted on account of 
uncertainty as to the proper alliances of the genus.) 
Species 4 or 5 in tropical Asia and Africa, 1 in the Philippines. 
1. Q. indica L. Niogniogan, Tangolon (Tag.). 
A scandent shrub reaching a length of from 2 to 8 m, the younger parts 
rusty-pubescent. Leaves oblong to elliptic, 7 to 15 cm long, acute or slightly 
acuminate, base rounded. Spikes shorter than the leaves, many-flowered, 
the bracts ovate to lanceolate, persistent, 8 to 14 mm long. Flowers 
fragrant, white to pink or reddish-purple. Calyx-tube very slender, pro- 
duced above the ovary for from 4 to 7 cm, the lobes 5, short, acute. Petals 
oblong, obtuse, 10 to 15 cm long. Fruit narrowly ellipsoid, 2.5 to 3 cm 
long, sharply longitudinally 5-angled or 5-winged. (Fil. Filip. pl. 138.) 
Occasional in thickets and often cultivated, fl. at intervals all the year; 
common and widely distributed in the Philippines. Burma to China, 
through Malaya to New Guinea, cultivated in other tropical countries. 
8. LUMNITZERA Willdenow 
Glabrous shrubs or trees growing along the sea shore and tidal streams. 
Leaves somewhat fleshy when fresh, alternate, somewhat crowded toward 
the ends of the branchlets, shortly petioled, shining, obovate to oblong- 
obovate, entire. Flowers in axillary or terminal racemes. Calyx-tube pro- 
duced above the ovary, the base with 2 small bracteoles, the teeth 5. Petals 
5, oblong. Stamens 10 or fewer. Ovary inferior, 1 celled; ovules 2 to 5, 
pendulous. Fruit woody, elliptic-oblong, smooth or longitudinally striate, 
1-seeded. (In honor of S. Lumnitzer.) 
Species 2 or 3, seashores in the tropics of the Old World, 2 in the 
Philippines. 
