358 A FLORA OF MANILA 
Commonly cultivated, apparently never or very rarely producing flowers 
here. Thought to have originated in Brazil, but now widely distributed in 
cultivation. 
This and the preceding two species are commonly known in Manila as 
“Papua de China.” 
* 5, N. FRuTICOSUM (L.) Mig. (Pana fruticosum L.). Papua (Tag.). 
An erect shrub 1 to 2.5 m high, the leaves up to. 30 cm long, decompound, 
3-pinnate, the pinnae 6 to 10, shorter upward, the leaflets and ultimate 
segments very diverse in form, mostly lanceolate, acuminate, sharply and 
irregularly spinulose-toothed, often lobed, 5 to 10 cm long, the terminal 
segments usually larger than the others and more often lobed. Inflores- 
cence terminal and in the upper axils, up to 15 cm long, many-flowered. 
Flowers umbellate, shortly pedicelled. Fruits compressed, very broadly 
ovoid, about 4 cm long. (FI. Filip pl. 78.) 
Very commonly cultivated and extremely variable in vegetative parts, 
rarely flowering; certainly not a native of the Philippines, but probably 
of prehistoric introduction. In cultivation India to Malaya and Polynesia, 
probably a native of one of the last two regions. 
* Var. PLUMATUM (Hort.) (Panax plumatum Hort.). 
Differing from the species in its smaller leaves, up to 20 cm long, the 
ultimate segments much smaller and finer, mostly lanceolate or linear- 
lanceolate, spinulose-toothed, acuminate, 1 to 5 cm long, 2 to 5 mm wide. 
Leaves green. 
Cultivated only. 
* Var. VICTORIAE (Hort.) (Panasx victoriae Hort.). 
Somewhat intermediate in leafiet-form between the species and the 
preceding variety, but leaflets somewhat glaucous on the upper surface, 
margined with white, pale and shining on the lower surface. 
Cultivated only. 
2. SCHEFFLERA Forster 
Erect, unarmed shrubs or trees, or vines, the leaves palmately compound, 
the leaflets usually coriaceous and entire, sometimes toothed. Umbels in 
racemes or panicles, usually terminal, few to many-flowered, the pedicels 
not jointed under the flowers. Calyx truncate or toothed. Petals 5 or 6, 
sometimes more numerous, valvate. Stamens as many as the petals, the 
disk small or large. Fruit globose to obovoid, sulcate or angled. (Named 
for — Scheffler.) 
Species over 150 in the tropics of the Old World, about 25 in the 
Philippines. 
1. S. odorata (Blanco) Merr. & Rolfe. Galamai-amo (Tag.). 
A glabrous vine, reaching a height 2 to 6 m or more, Petioles longer 
than the leaflets. Leaflets 5 or 6, smooth and shining, coriaceous, elliptic 
to broadly ovate, obtuse or very shortly acuminate, 6 to 12 cm long. Pan- 
icles terminal, lax, 10 to 20 cm long. Flowers greenish, 6-merous, 2 to 3 
mm in diameter. Fruits globose and fleshy when fresh, 4 to 5 mm long, 
prominently and sharply 6-angled when dry. 
Occasionally cultivated, Singalon, fil. eee ; widely distributed 
in the Philippines. Endemic. ° 
