RUBIACEAE 453 
18. MORINDA Linnaeus 
Erect or climbing shrubs or small trees with terete or 4-angled branches. 
Leaves opposite, the stipules connate, sheathing. Flowers white, in axillary 
or terminal, solitary or panicled, dense heads. Calyx-tubes more or less 
connate, the limb short or none. Corolla short or long, the lobes 4 to 7, 
valvate. Ovary 2-celled, ovules 1 in each cell. Fruit large, formed of 
the fleshy, enlarged, connate calyces, enclosing the cartilaginous or bony, 
1-seeded pyrenes. (From “morus” and “indicus,” from fancied resemblance 
of the fruit to that of the mulberry.) 
Flowers without bracteoles..............-.-.icssc.s.cscceccscenceccceceeeseneeseenes 1. M. citrifolia 
Flowers subtended by 1 to 1.5 em long, leaf-like bracteoles which persist 
AEE, SEES Se Uae, ET cc eee ee 2. M. bracteata 
1. M. citrifolia L. Bancudo, Nino, Lino (Tag.). 
An erect, glabrous shrub or small tree 3 to 10 m high. Leaves broadly 
elliptic to oblong, obtuse, acute, or slightly acuminate, 12 to 25 em long. 
Peduncles leaf-opposed, solitary, 1 to 3 em long. Heads dense, ovoid or 
globose, in flower 1 to 1.5 cm in diameter, enlarged in fruit, ovoid, fleshy, 
white or greenish-white, and 3 to 6 cm long. Flowers not bracteolate, 
the calyx truncate, the corolla white, about 1 cm long, the limb 5-lobed, 
1 cm in diameter. (FI. Filip. pl. 52.) 
In thickets, occasional, fl. all the year; widely distributed in the Phil- 
ippines. India through Malaya to Australia and Polynesia. . 
2. M. bracteata Roxb. Bancudo, Lino, Nino (Tag.). 
Very similar to the preceding, but often with smaller leaves, and always 
with leaf-like bracts 1 to 1.5 cm long subtending the flowers and persistent 
in fruit. 
Range of the preceding. 
14. PSYCHOTRIA Linnaeus 
Erect shrubs or small trees, rarely climbing. Leaves opposite, the 
stipules intrapetiolar, often connate. Flowers small, usually numerous, in 
terminal cymose panicles. Calyx-tube short, the limb often deciduous. 
Corolla-tube short, straight, the throat naked or hairy, 5-lobed, lobes rarely 
4 or 6. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes, inserted on the throat; 
filaments usually short. Ovary 2-celled; cells 1l-ovuled. Fruits small, 
globose, ovoid, or oblong, somewhat fleshy, with two, 1-seeded, plano-convex, 
usually longitudinally ridged or suleate pyrenes. (From the Greek “vivify- 
ing” on account of the supposed medical qualities of some spices.) 
Species more than 500 in all tropical and subtropical countries, 35 or 
more in the Philippines. 
1. P. luconiensis (Cham.) F.-Vill. (P. tacpo Rolfe). Tacpo or Tagpo 
(Tag.). 
A glabrous, erect shrub 1.5 to 5 m high. Leaves smooth and shining, 
oblong to elliptic-oblong, petioled, 8 to 20 cm long, base acute, apex acute 
or slightly acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, at flowering time usually 
dense, 2 to 3 em long. Flowers congested, white. Corolla 4 to 4.5 mm 
long, 5-lobed, the throat villous. Fruits somewhat fleshy, obovoid, yellow 
