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THE MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE PHILIPPINES 



Another species, C. equisetifolia, Forst., confounded with the 

 former species by the natives, has the same therapeutic appli- 

 cations. 



Botanical Description. — A tree with stellately arranged 

 straight branches. Leaves stellate, long, narrow, linear, 4- 

 grooved. They have been compared to the tail of a horse and 

 the tail of a certain bird — the casobar. Staminate and pistil- 

 late flowers greenish, on different parts of the same stalk. 

 Staminate, in small aments. Pistillate on small globose 

 aments ; ' calyx proper of the floweret, a coarse scale ; corolla 

 none ; ovary conical ; styles 2, flattened, divergent ; stigmas 

 acute. Fruit : Each floweret produces a woody seed-vessel, 

 bivalved, ovate, glabrous, with a small seed ending in an oval 

 wing ; all these seed vessels joined form a small cone about V 

 long. 



Habitat. — Very common in Ilocos, Tarlak, Binangonang 

 of Lampong and N. Ecija. 



