372 A FLORA OF MANILA 
free from the stigma. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels; style filiform; ovules 
very numerous, in many series. Fruit of 2, long, slender follicles. Seeds 
linear, flattened, ciliate at both ends. 
Species about 35, tropical Africa and Asia to Australia and Polynesia, 
about 4 in the Philippines. (In honor of Dr. Alston, an English physician.) 
1. A. scholaris (L.) R. Br. Dita (Tag.). 
A glabrous tree 6 to 20 m high with abundant milky sap, the branches 
whorled. Leaves verticillate, 4 to 7 in a whorl, coriaceous, 8 to 20 cm long, 
oblong-obovate, rounded, base acute, green and shining on the upper surface, 
the lower surface white or grayish; nerves very numerous, parallel, hori- 
zontal. Cymes peduncled, often umbellately branched, the whole inflores- 
cence about 10 cm long. Flowers crowded, numerous, somewhat pubescent, 
white, about 1 cm long, throat villous. Follicles pendulous, slender, cyl- 
indric, 20 to 40 cm long, 4 to 5 mm in diameter. Seeds about 4 mm long, 
the brown ciliate hairs on the ends longer than the seeds. (FI. Filip. pl. 
118.) 
Old Botanic Garden, fl. April; widely distributed in the Philippines. 
Africa, tropical Asia, Malaya, and Australia. 
7. ALLAMANDA Linnaeus 
Erect or somewhat climbing shrubs, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 
verticillate or opposite, penninerved, usually glandular in the axils of the 
nerves on the lower surface. Flowers large, yellow, at the ends of the 
branches in few-flowered axillary racemes. Calyx 5-parted, the segments 
lanceolate, exterior ones usually the larger. Corolla broadly funnel- 
shaped, the tube narrow at the base, abruptly enlarged and campanulate 
above, the lobes broad. Stamens inserted in the throat, the anthers free 
from the stigma. Disk thick, fleshy. Ovary entire, 1-celled with 2 parietal 
placentae. Fruit an ovate compressed capsule. (In honor of Dr. Allamand, 
a Dutch physician.) 
Species about 12 in tropical America, some now cultivated in all warm 
countries. 
Corolla about 7 cm long..................... ofA tin RP rai at Aen oooh So 1. A. cathartica 
Sorolla about ss em" ione Oe ee eee 2. A. hendersonii 
1. A. CATHARTICA L. Campanilla (Sp.-Fil.). 
A glabrous or somewhat pubescent, erect or subscandent shrub, 2 to 4 
m high. Leaves in whorls of three or four, or the uppermost ones scattered, 
lanceolate or oblanceolate, acuminate, sessile, about 12 cm long, 2.5 to 4 
em wide, the upper surface shining. Flowers shortly pedicelled, yellow, 
calyx-teeth green, somewhat spreading, lanceolate, acuminate, 1 to 1.5 cm 
long. Corolla about 7 cm long, the slender part of the tube 3 cm long, 
then inflated and about 2 cm in diameter, the lobes ovate or oblong-ovate, 
spreading, rounded, about 2 cm long. (FI. Filip. pl. 30.) 
A commonly cultivated shrub, fl. all the year, apparently subspontaneous 
in some parts of the Philippines. A native of tropical America, now widely 
distributed in the tropics. 
* 2. A. HENDERSONII Bull. 
A glabrous shrub 2 to 4 m high, sometimes subscandent. Leaves in 
whorls of fours, oblong-obovate to elliptic-obleng, 10 to 14 em long, sharply 
