450 A FLORA OF MANILA 
cm long, few-flowered, the bracts and bracteoles small, acuminate. Corolla 
white, the tube slender, about 2 cm long. Fruit globose, fleshy, red, 8 to 
10 mm in diameter. 
In dry thickets, Masambong, fl. July-Sept.; widely distributed in the 
Philippines. Endemic. 
8. HYPOBATHERUM Blume 
Erect shrubs or small trees with distichous, lanceolate, glabrous or 
pubescent leaves which are narrowed at both ends. Flowers small, fas- 
cicled or cymose in the leaf-axils, bracteolate. Calyx-tube short, turbinate, 
the limb 4- or 5-lobed, persistent. Corolla-tube cylindric, the throat beard- 
ed, the lobes 4 or 5, rounded, villous inside. Stamens 4 or 5, alternate 
with the lobes of the corolla. Ovary 2-celled; style short; stigmas 2, 
villous, oblong or linear-oblong; ovules 4 to 8 in each cell. Fruit ellipsoid 
or subglobose, baccate, few-seeded, long-peduncled. 
Species 3 or 4, India to Malaya, 1 in the Philippines. 
1. H. glomeratum (Bartl.) K. Sch. Calagre (Tag.). 
An erect dioecious shrub 2 to 3 m high, more or less pubescent or nearly 
glabrous, the branches long, the leaves distichous. Leaves oblong-ovate to 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 9 to 15 cm long. Flowers fascicled, many in 
each axil, white, the glomerules sessile or shortly peduncled, or the perfect 
flowers peduncled. Calyx pubescent inside about 7 mm in diameter, the 
lobes 4 or 5, spreading, obtuse. Corolla about 4 mm long, campanulate, 
the lobes rounded. Fruit ovoid, fleshy, pubescent, about 1.5 em long, 
long-peduncled. (FI. Filip. pl. 56, Memijia odorata.) 
In thickets, occasional, Malabon, Pandacan, etc., fl. Sept.Jan., widely 
distributed in Luzon. Endemic. 
9. GUETTARDA Linnaeus 
Trees with opposite, usually ample leaves, the stipules intra-petiolar, 
deciduous. Flowers secund, polygamous, on the branches of axillary, pe- 
duncled, cymes. Calyx-tube short, the limb toothed, usually deciduous. 
Corolla-tube long, cylindric, the throat naked, the lobes 4 to 9, imbricate, 
oblong. Anthers within the tube, linear. Ovary 4- to 9-celled, cells 1- 
ovuled. Fruit a globose drupe, the endocarp woody, 4- to 9-celled and 
grooved, perforated at the top opposite the cells. (In honor of E. Guettard.) 
Species about 50, all in tropical America except the following: 
1. G. speciosa L. Bagaolan, Tabon-tabon (Tag.). 
A tree 3 to 8 m high, the branchlets rather stout, often with large 
petiolar-scars. Leaves obovate, thin, softly pubescent on the lower surface, 
12 to 25 cm long, the tip abruptly apiculate or acuminate, the base rounded 
or subcordate, the lateral nerves prominent, about 10 pairs. Cymes shorter 
than the leaves, the flowers fragrant, somewhat crowded on the short 
branches. Corolla white or cream-colored, silky-pubescent externally, about 
8 cm long, usually 5- or 6-merous. Drupe globose or depressed-globose, 2 
to 3 em in diameter, consisting chiefly of the woody endocarp, cells 4 to 
9, usually 5 or 6. 
Along the seashore, Pasay, fl. most of the year; throughout the Philip- 
pines along the seashore. Tropical shores of both hemispheres. 
