430 A FLORA OF MANILA 
*1,. K. AFRICANA (Lam.) Benth. 
A wide-spreading deciduous tree about 10 m high with odd-pinnate leaves, 
the flowers paniculate, on very long pendulous peduncles. Leaves alternate. 
Leaflets ovate to elliptic-ovate, 8 to 16 cm long, acute or obtuse, opposite. 
Peduncles very long. Calyx 2.5 to 3 cm long, unequally 5-toothed or lobed. 
Corolla about 10 cm long, the tube rather slender, the limb broadly bell- 
shaped, somewhat curved, 5-lobed. Fruit large, oblong or oblong-cylindric, 
indehiscent. : 
A single tree in the old Botanic Garden, fl. May-July. A native of west 
tropical Africa, now cultivated in some other tropical countries. 
7. CRESCENTIA Linnaeus 
Small or medium sized glabrous trees, with alternate, simple or 3-folio- 
late leaves, solitary or fascicled at the nodes. Flowers on the trunk or axil- 
lary, solitary or fascicled. Calyx closed in bud, in flower broadly 2- to 
5-lobed. Corolla-tube broad, bell-shaped, in front with a transverse fold, 
ventricose. Stamens 4, in 2 pairs. Ovary sessile, 1-celled, placentae 2. 
Fruit large, globose, indehiscent, the pericarp fleshy, becoming hardened. 
Seeds many, imbedded in the pulp, wingless. (In honor of P. de Crescenzi, 
an early Italian botanist.) 
Species about 5 in Mexico and Central America, 2 introduced in thé 
Philippines. 
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*1. C. CUJETE L. Calabash Tree. 
A glabrous, much-branched tree 4 to 5 m high. Leaves alternate, often 
fascicled at the nodes, oblanceolate, obtuse, or shortly acuminate, base 
gradually narrowed, subsessile, 5 to 17 cm long, the upper surface glossy. 
Flowers axillary, solitary or in pairs, pedicelled, about 6 cm long, with a 
somewhat foetid odor. Calyx about 2 cm long, split into 2 lobes. Corolla 
pale-greenish with faint purplish lines, inflated, slightly curved, horizon- 
tally plicate on the lower side, the lobes 5, equal, acuminate, toothed. Fruit 
globose, green or purplish, 15 to 18 cm in diameter. 
Occasionally cultivated, Singalon, fl. all the year. A species of very 
recent introduction, a native of tropical America. 
*2. C. ALATA HBK. (C. alata Blanco). Hoya cruz (Sp.—Fil.). 
A small tree 3 to 6 m high. Leaves in fascicles at the nodes of the 
branches, 3-foliolate, the petioles broadly winged, oblanceolate, about 1 cm 
wide, gradually narrowed to the slender base, the leaflets oblong-ovate, re- 
tuse, base narrowed, acute, sessile, 3 to 7 cm long, the middle one often 
longer than the two lateral ones. Flowers solitary, borne on the trunk, 
brownish, rank-scented, sessile or shortly pedicelled. Calyx split into two 
lobes, about 1.5 cm longer. Corolla somewhat campanulate, about 6 cm 
long, with 5 short lobes, the tube horizontally plicate on one side. Fruit 
hard, globose, about 5 cm in diameter. (FI. Filip. pl. 327.) 
Rarely cultivated, fil. Mar—Apr.; now only occasionally cultivated in the 
Philippines. Introduced from Mexico at an early date. 
