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or nearly glabrous, acuminate, deeply pinnateiy 3- to 8-lobed, the lobes 

 lanceolate, acuminate; stipules large, deciduous. Male receptacle narrowly 

 oblong-obovoid, cylindric, up to 15 cm long, yellowish. Fruit globose to 

 ellipsoid, up to 20 cm in length, green, covered with the slightly projecting, 

 rounded to conical tips of the anthocarps, the individual ones usually 5 

 mm in diameter or less, seedless (A. rima, Fl. Filip. pi. 267), or with 

 ovoid to subglobose seeds about 2.5 cm in diameter {A. camanai, Fl. Filip. 

 pi. i57.) 



Not uncommon in cultivation, fl. all the year; throughout the Philippines, 

 but neither form indigenous. Widely distributed in various forms in Ma- 

 laya and Polynesia, variable in its fruit characters. 



3. STREBLUS Loareiro 



Trees with somewhat milky juice. Leaves alternate, harsh, rather finely 

 toothed. Flowers axillary, small, dioecious or monoecious. Male flowers 

 in small, short-peduncled heads. Sepals 4, imbricate. Stamens 4, in- 

 flexed in bud. Rudimentary ovary somewhat dilated above. Female 

 flowers bracteate, solitary, or 2 to 4 together, pedicelled. Ovary straight, 

 the style-arms elongated. Fruit fleshy, suri-ounded by the accrescent 

 sepals, 1-seeded. (Greek "crooked" in reference to the often crooked 

 branches.) 



Species 2, India to Malaya, 1 in the Philippines. 



1. S. asper Lour. Calios (Tag.); Alodig (II.). 



A rigid, densely branched tree 4 to 15 m high. Leaves oblong-ovate 

 to subrhomboid, very scabrid, 4 to' 12 cm long, finely toothed, obtuse to 

 acuminate, base narrowed. Male heads solitary or in pairs, 4 to 7 mm in 

 diameter, short-peduncled, globose, greenish^yellow or nearly white. 

 Female flowers peduncled, usually in pairs, green, the sepals accrescent 

 and nearly enclosing the fruit. Fruit ovoid, pale-yellow, 8 to 10 mm long, 

 the pericarp soft, fleshy, the seed 5 to 6 mm long, ovoid. (Fl. Filip. pi. 171.) 



Very common, fl. most of the year; throughout the Philippines. India 

 to China and Malaya. 



4. CASTILLOA Cervantes 



Trees with abundant latex, and alternate, shortly petioled, large, entire 

 or minutely toothed, distichous leaves. Male flowers: Perianth none. 

 Stamens numerous, scattered among the numerous bractlets. Female 

 flowers: perianth 3- to 6-lobulate. Ovary adnate to the perianth, stigma 

 2- to 5-branched; ovule solitary. Fruiting perianth enlarged, dry or fleshy, 

 more or less adhering to the receptacle and to each other, and enclosing 

 the rounded to oblong nutlets (achenes). (In honor of J. del Castillo, a 

 Mexican pharmacist and explorer.) 



Species 10, western America from Mexico to Peru and Bolivia, a single 

 Introduced one in the Philippines. 



♦1. C. ELASTICA Cerv. Castilloa Rubber Tree. 



A tree reaching a height of 15 m, the branches spreading or depressed, 

 the young one densely hairy. Leaves distichous, oblong, 20 to 45 cm long, 

 8 to 15 cm wide, acuminate, base cordate, rough, pubescent, entire, the 

 nerves 17 to 20 pairs, prominent. Male receptacles shortly stalked, 1 to 

 1.6 cm long, 2 to 2.5 cm thick, lobed,' the imbricating invol-ucre-scales nu- 



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