394 A FLORA OF MANILA 
2. EHRETIA Linnaeus 
Erect shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, entire or toothed. Inflores- 
cence of terminal or axillary corymbs or panicles, or flowers solitary and 
axillary. Flowers small, white, 5-merous. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube 
cylindric or short, 5-lobed, lobes spreading or reflexed. Stamens 5, inserted 
on the corolla-tube. Ovary 2-celled, cells 2-ovuled; style terminal, cleft 
or 2-cleft. Fruit a small, 4- to 1-seeded drupe. (In honor of D. G. Ehret, 
a Bavarian botanist.) 
Species 50, mostly in tropics of the Old World, 4 in the Philippines. 
Leaves ample, 8 to 18 cm long; styles single, bifid; a tree. 
1. EB. navesii 
Leaves small, 1 to 6 cm long, in alternate fascicles; styles usually 2, un- 
divided ;.°4. small Ghrab-02:.5...i0. 2a ek eee 2. E. microphylla 
1. E. navesii Vid. 
A tree 4 to 10 m high, the inflorescence and leaves, when young, some- 
what pubescent beneath, becoming glabrous or nearly so. Leaves oblong- 
ovate, elliptic-ovate, or ovate, entire, 8 to 18 cm long, acuminate, base usually 
rounded. Corymbs terminal and axillary, peduncled, 5 to 10 cm long, few- 
to many-flowered. Flowers white, about 8 mm long. Style simple, bifid. 
Fruit ovoid, somewhat fleshy, about 5 mm long. (FI. Filip. pl. 70, E. 
virgata.) 
In thickets, Masambong to Guadalupe, occasional, fl. May-June; widely 
distributed in the Philippines. Endemic. 
2. E. microphylla Lam. (#. buxifolia Roxb.). Cha, Chaa-bundoc (Tag.). 
An erect, much branched shrub 1 to 4 m high. Leaves in alternate fas- 
cicles, obovate to oblong-obovate, scabrous, 1 to 6 cm long, entire or some- 
what toothed or lobed near the apex, base narrowed, subsessile or shortly 
petioled. Flowers axillary, solitary, or 2 to 4 on a common peduncle, the 
inflorescence shorter than the leaves, somewhat hairy. Calyx-lobes green, 
somewhat hairy, linear, 5 to 6 mm long. Corolla white, 5 mm long, the 
lobes oblong, obtuse. Fruit drupaceous, globose, somewhat fleshy, yellow, 
4 to 5 mm in diameter, the stone globose, 4-seeded. (FI. Filip. pl. 72, E. 
heterophylla.) 
In dry thickets and open places opposite Guadalupe, near Fort McKinley, 
etc., fl. all the year; widely distributed in the Philippines. India to For- 
mosa and Malaya. 
38. TOURNEFORTIA Linnaeus 
Erect trees or shrubs or climbing vines. Leaves alternate, entire. In- 
florescence terminal, forked, scorpoid. Flowers many, small, sessile or 
subsessile, densely arranged, white or greenish. Sepals 5 or 4. Corolla- 
tube cylindric, the 5 or 4 small lobes spreading. Stamens 5 or 4, included 
in the corolla-tube. Ovary 4-celled; style terminal, short; ovules 1 in each 
cell. Fruit small, ovoid, somewhat drupe-like, not distinctly separating 
into 2 or 4, 2- or 1-seeded pyrenes. (In honor of J. D. de Tournefort, a 
French botanist.) 
Species about 100 of wide tropical distribution, 3 in the Philippines. 
1. T. sarmentosa Lam. 
A scandent, somewhat woody vine of indefinite length, somewhat pubes- 
cent. Leaves oblong, green, shining, somewhat harsh, 8 to 15 cm. long, 
