210 A FLORA OF MANILA 



1. CINNAMOMUM Blume 



Trees with oppo^te, coriaceous, 3-nerved leaves, and very aromatic bark 

 and twigs. Flowers small, often unisejoial, in axillary or subterminal 

 panicles or racemes. Perianth-tube short, cup-shaped or campanulate, the 

 segments 6, either deciduous or persistent and enlarging in fruit. Sta- 

 mens 9, in 3 rows; anthers 4-celled, of the first two rows introrse, of the 

 third row 'extrorse, a fourth row represented by 3 sagittate staminodes. 

 Fruit small, ovoid, surrounded at the base by the enlarged, persistent 

 perianth. (From the Arabic name of cinnamon.) 



Species about 50, 4 to 5 in the Philippines, a single introduced one in 

 our area. 



* 1. C. ZEYLANICUM (L.) Bl. Canela (Sp.) ; Cinnamon. 



A small tree, glabrous except the finely silky-pubescent buds. Leaves 

 coriaceous, shining, 8 to 15 cm long, oval or oval-lanceolate, base acute, 

 apex acuminate, strongly 3- or 5-nerved. Panicles usually about as long 

 as the leaves, mostly clustered in the upper axils. Flowers numerous, 

 pale-yellow, small, pubescent outside with grayish hairs. Fruit about 1 

 cm long, oblong-ovoid, dry or slightly fleshy, surrounded by the enlarged 

 perianth, the perianth-segments persistent. 



Occasionally cultivated in Manila, fl. May-Aug., and probably in other 

 months; introduced from India or Ceylon. 



In addition to the above the camphor tree [C camphora (L.) Nees], a 

 native of China and Formosa, is represented in our area by young speci- 

 mens cultivated in Singalon. 



2. LITSEA Lamarck 



Trees with penninerved, alternate leaves and rather small, dioecious 

 flowers crowded in small glomerules or umbels, each umbel subtended by 

 4 concave imbricate bracts which look like sepals, forming an involucre, 

 the glomerules or umbels umbellately or racemosely arranged, axillary. Per- 

 ianth-tube long or short. Stamens in several rows, the innermost ones more 

 or less imperfect; anthers all iiitrorse, 4-celled. Fruit globose or ovoid, 

 often fleshy, seated on the cup-shaped, enlarged perianth-tube. (From the 

 Chinese name of one species.) 



Species more than 100, in the Indo-Malayan region, 25 or more in the 

 Philippines, two in our area. 



Heads or umbels of flowers solitary or umbellate; leaves very densely and 

 softly pubescent 1. L. glutinosa 



Heads or umbels racemosely disposed; leaves glabrous or only slightly 

 pubescent. _ 2. L. perrottetii 



1. LItsea. glutinosa (Lour.) C. B. Rob. Puso-puso (Tag.). 



A tree 10 m high or less, the young parts usually more or less softly 

 pubescent. Leaves elliptic to oblong-elliptic, usually softly pubescent, 9 

 to 20 cm long. Umbels in the upper axils, solitary or umbellate, 1 to 1.6 

 Qm in diameter, their peduncles about 1 cm long, containing many, small 

 crowded, yellowish flowers. Fruit globbose, 8 mm in diameter or less. 

 (Fl. Filip. pi. 360, Sebifera glutinosa.) 



Occasional, Malate, Pasay, Masambong etc., fl. Mar .-May; widely dis- 

 tributed in the Philippines at low altitudes and in the Indo-Malayan region 

 generally. 



2. L. perrottetii (Blume) F.-Vill. Bacan (Vis., Tag.); Maguilic, Bati- 



culing (Tag.); Cubilan (II.). 



