356 A FLORA OF MANILA 
pedicelled, 5-merous, the calyx-lobes lanceolate, about 7 mm long. Petals 
obovate, white, pale-yellow at the base, about 12 mm long. Capsule linear, 
cylindric, 2 to 8 em long, about 3 mm in diameter, base narrowed, some- 
what longitudinally ridged. 
In muddy places, pools of stagnant water, slow streams etc., fl. most 
of the year; widely distributed in the Philippines. All tropical countries. 
2. J. suffruticosa L. 
A stout, coarse, erect, glabrous or somewhat pubescent, more or less 
branched, often suffrutescent herb 0.4 to 1.5 m high. Leaves lanceolate, 
acuminate, 6 to 15 em long. Flowers axillary, sessile or nearly so. Calyx 
green. Petals 4, yellow, orbicular-obovate, about 1 cm long. Capsules 
green or purplish, 3 to 5 em long, 5 mm thick or less, 8-ribbed, the persistent 
calyx-lobes, oblong-ovate, acute or acuminate, about 1 cm long. 
In open damp or wet lands, fl. all the year; throughout the Philippines. 
In most tropical countries. 
3. J. LINIFOLIA Vahl. Silasila (Tag.). 
An erect, branched, glabrous annual, 20 to 60 cm high, with green 
or purplish, 3- or 4-angled or winged stems, and spreading, 3-angled 
branches. Leaves narrowly elliptic-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, 
base decurrent on the petiole, 4 to 10 cm long. Flowers axillary, solitary, 
sessile, the calyx-tube slender, about 8 mm long, the calyx-lobes 4, green, 
lanceolate, acuminate, nearly 4mm long. Petals 4, narrowly oblong-elliptic, 
as long as the sepals. Stamens 8. Stigma globose. Capsule green or 
purplish, about 3 cm long, 1 to 2 mm in diameter, the seeds faintly or not 
visible through the walls. 
In open wet places, old rice fields, etc., common, fi. all the year; through- 
out the Philippines. A native tropical America, introduced and natural- 
ized here and probably also in the Malay Archipelago. 
106. ARALIACEAE (GINSENG OR PAPUA FAMILY.) 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees sometimes climbing, smooth or prickly. Leaves 
alternate, rarely subopposite, simple, entire or variously lobed, digitate, or 
1- to 3-pinnate. Flowers small, regular, perfect or polygamo-dioecious, 
in umbels, racemes, or panicled heads, the pedicels continuous or jointed. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, the limb none, or truncate, or toothed 
Petals 5, rarely more, valvate or imbricate, spreading, or coherent and 
falling as a whole. Stamens as many as the petals, alternate with 
them, inserted around the disk, rarely more numerous. Ovary inferior, - 
1- to 6-celled, rarely more; styles as many as the cells, free or united; 
ovules 1 in each cell. Fruit coriaceous or drupaceous, small, cells 1 to 5 
or 6 or more, the endocarp usually ridged. 
Genera 54, species 650, in all parts of the world, chiefly tropical, 10 
genera and 50 species in the Philippines. 
Leaves simple, pinnate, or pinnately decompound.................... 1. Nothopanax 
Leaves. palmately compound... eet 2 bl the ee 2. Scheffiera 
1. NOTHOPANAX Miquel 
Glabrous unarmed shrubs with alternate, simple, pinnate, or pinnately 
decompound leaves. Flowers small, polygamous, in panicled umbels, 5- 
merous. Calyx-tube obconical, the limb with 5 minute teeth. Petals 5, 
valvate, triangular-ovate, base broad. Stamens 5, inserted with the petals 
