446 A FLORA OF MANILA 
1. SARCOCEPHALUS Afzelius 
Trees with opposite leaves, the stipules usually large. Flowers numerous, 
axillary or terminal, peduncled, globose heads, united by their confluent 
calyx-tubes, the bracts 2, deciduous, the bracteoles none. Calyx 4- to 
6-toothed. Corolla-tube long, slender, funnel-shaped, 5- or 6-lobed. An- 
thers 5 or 6, sessile at the corolla-mouth. Ovary 2-celled; style exserted, 
filiform; ovules numerous. Fruit of numerous 2-celled pyrenes combined in 
a fleshy globose mass. (Greek “flesh” and “head,” in allusion to the fleshy 
globose fruit.) 
Species about 15, tropical Africa and Asia to Australia and Polynesia, 
about 4 in the Philippines. 
1. S. orientalis (L.) Merr. (S. cordatus Miq.). Bancal (Tag., Vis., 
Pamp.). 
A glabrous tree 7 to 16 m high. Leaves elliptic to oblong-ovate, coria- 
ceous, obtuse, base cordate or rounded, 11 to 25 cm long, the stipules green, 
ovate to elliptic, 1.5 to 3 cm long. Heads terminal, peduncled, solitary, 
4 to 5 cm in diameter, the flowers white. (FI. Filip. pl. 51, Nauclea gla- 
berrima.) 
Occasional in thickets, sometimes cultivated, fi. Sept—May; widely dis- 
tributed in the Philippines. India and Malaya to Australia. 
2. MITRAGYNA Korthals 
Shrubs or trees with large caducous stipules, the leaves prominently 
nerved. Flowers in dense, globose, peduncled, axillary and terminal heads 
which are sometimes panicled, each peduncle with 2 deformed leaves at 
the top. Calyx-tubes short, confluent, the limb truncate or 5-toothed.. Co- 
rolla funnel-shaped, the tube slender, long, lobes 5, short, valvate. Stamens 
5. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform; ovules. numerous, imbricate on pendulous 
placentae. Fruit of many, dry, dehiscent, many-seeded cocci, all in a globose . 
head. (Greek “miter” and “female.”) 
Species about 10 in tropical Africa and Asia, 2 in the Philippines. 
1. M. rotundifolia (Roxb.) O. Kuntze (M. diversifolia Havil.). Mambog 
(Fac); 
A shrub or small tree 2 to 8 m high, slightly pubescent or nearly glabrous. 
Leaves broadly ovate to elliptic-ovate, 5 to 12 cm long, obscurely and shortly 
acuminate, the lower ones larger than the upper ones, often subcordate, the 
nerves prominent, suboblique. Heads in spreading trichotomous panicles, 
the middle one subsessile, the lateral ones peduncled, about 2 cm in diameter. 
Flowers fragrant, white, soon turning yellowish. 
Oceasional in thickets, La Loma, fl. June-Sept.; widely distributed in 
Luzon. Chittagong to Burma. 
3. DENTELLA Forster 
A small, slender, prostrate, branched, annual herb with small opposite 
leaves. Flowers small, white, axillary, sessile or short-pedicelled. Calyx- 
tube globose, the limb tubular, persistent. Corolla funnel-shaped, hairy 
inside, the lobes 5, 2- or 3-toothed. Stamens inserted in the middle of 
the tube, the filaments short. Ovary 2-celled, ovules many in each. cell. 
Fruit a small, dry, indehiscent, many-seeded capsule. (Diminuitive of the 
Latin “tooth,” from the toothed corolla-lobes.) 
A monotypic genus. 
