OLACACEAE 185 



1. CHAMPEREIA Griffith 



Erect glabrous shrubs or small trees with alternate, entire leaves. 

 Flowers minute, in few-flowered cymes which are arranged in axillary 

 panicles, the bracts mihute. Calyx-lobes 5, valvate. Pet&ls none. Stamens 

 5, perigynous, opposite the lobes. Ovary superior, half immersed in the 

 disk; stigma sessile, broad; ovule solitary, erect. Fruit an ellipsoid drupe. 



Species 2 or 3, Tenasserim to Malaya, 1 in the Philippines. 



1. C. manillana (Blume) Merr. Malalucban (Tag.). 



An erect glabrous shrub 2 to 4 m high. Leaves shining, oblong to 

 oblongjovate, shortly petioled, 7 to 14 cm long, base acute or rounded, apex 

 acute or somewhat acuminate. Panicles pale-green, slender, 4 to 10 cm 

 long. Flowers pale-green or yellowish-green, about 2 mm long, the calyx- 

 lobes oblong-ovate, acute, 1.5 mm long, spreading. Fruit glabrous, fleshy, 

 ellipsoid, yellow or red, about 12 mm long, pericarp thin, seed large. 



In thickets, occasional, fl. Jan.-March; widely distributed in the Phil- 

 ippines. Burma to the Malay Peninsula; Formosa. 



40. OLACACEAE (Olax Family) 



Erect or climbing shrubs, or trees, with alternate, simple, entire leaves. 

 Flowers small, regular, perfect, in axillary racemes or cymes. Calyx small, 

 truncate, or 4- to 6-toothed, accrescent and enclosing the /ruit. Petals 3 

 to 6, free or coherent, valvate, sometimes cleft. Stamens 3 or more, opposite 

 the petals, or alternate with them ; staminodes twice as many as the 

 stamens, often bifid, or none. Ovary superior, free, 1- to 6-celled, cells 

 1-ovuled; style simple. Fruit a drupe or nut-like, surrounded by the 

 enlarged, often fleshy calyx. 



Genera 26, species about 150 in the tropics of both hemispheres, 6 

 genera and 6 or 6 species in the Philippines. 



OLAX Linnaeus 



Climbing shrubs or trees with alternate, entire, simple leaves; Flowers 

 in axillary, simple or branched racemes, the bracts small. Calyx small, 

 cup-shaped, truncate or slightly toothed, accrescent and surrounding the 

 fruit. Petals 3 to 6, hypogynous, valvate, somewhat coherent or free. 

 Fertile stamens 3, the filaments attached near the base of the petals; 

 staminodes usually 6, attached near the edges of the petals, bifid. Ovary 

 superior, free, more or less 3-celled below, 1-celled above; style simple; 

 stigma 3-lobed; ovules 3, pendulous. Fruit nearly covered by the fleshy 

 accrescent calyx, the stone 1-ceIled, 1-seeded. (Lsitin "smelling" in allusion 

 to the rank-scented wood of some species.) 



Species about 30, tropics of- the Old World, 1 in the Philippines. 



1. O. (mbri^ata Roxb. Malabaguio (Tag.). 



A scandent shrub reaching a height of 10 m or more, or a small tree 

 with pendulous branches, nearly glabrous. Leaves distichous, oblong-ovate, 

 obtuse to acuminate, base rounded or acute, 6' to 16 cm long. Racemes 

 puberulent, many-flowered, dichotomous, 1.5 to 3 cm long. Flowers white, 

 the calyx truncate. Petals 3, free or nearly so, about 1 cm long, entire,- 

 dr cleft at the apex. Stamens 3. staminodes 6, bifid, nearly as long as 



