EUTACEAE £69 



cm long, 2 to 7 cm wide. Flowers small, white, about 6 mm in diameter, 

 borne in axillary, solitary or paired, interrupted, narrow, cymose panicles, 

 ^cjn l<»»g or less. Calyx-teeth 5, short. Petals oblong-ovate, 5 mm long, 

 white. Stamens 10. Fruit fleshy, globose, pink or reddish, 1 cm in 

 diameter, containing a single globose seed 5 mm in diameter. (Fl. Filip. 

 pi. 1S7, G. trifoliata.) 



Occasional in thickets and hedges, fl. most of the year; widely distributed 

 in the Philippines at low and medium altitudes. India to southern China, 

 Malaya, and tropica^ Australia. 



2. MURRAYA Linnaeus 



Small tree§ or shrubs with odd-pinnate leaves. Flowers in axillary 

 or terminal small cymes. Cajyx small, deeply 5-cleft. Petals 5, imbricate, 

 free. Stamens 10, inserted around an elongated disk, the filaments slender, 

 the alternating ones shorter. Ovary 2- to 5-celled, narrowed above into 

 the style; ovules 1 or 2 in each cell. Fruit small, fleshy, 1-, sometimes 

 2-seeded. (In honor of J. A. Murray, a Danish botanist.) 



Species 4 or 5 in tropical Asia and Malaya, 2 in the Philippines. 



1. M. exotica L. Camuning (Tag., Vis.). 



A shrub or small glabrous tree with very hard wood, 3 to 8 m high. 

 Leaves 8 to 15 cm long, the leaflets usually 3 to 7, sometimes reduced to 1; 

 leaflets oblong to ovate, elliptic or subrhomboid, blunt-acuminate, entire, 

 2 to 7 cm long, or in one form up to 14 cm in length. Cymes short, 

 terminal or in the upper axils, usually few-flowered. Flowers white, very 

 fragrant, 1.5 to 2 cm long. Fruit ovoid, fleshy, red, 1 to 1.5 cm long. 

 (Fl. Filip. pi. 1S5, M. aumatrana.) 



Frequently cultivated and also abundant in dry thickets about Manila, 

 fl. July-Sept., and probably in other months; widely distributed in the 

 Philippines. India to China southward to Australia and Polynesia. 



3. CLAUSENA Burmann 



Erect, spineless shrubs or small trees, aromatic when crushed. Leaves 

 odd-pinnate. Flowers small, in terminal or axillary panicles. Calyx 4- 

 or 5-lobed. Petals 4 or 5, free, imbricate. Stamens 8 to 10, inserted 

 around an elongated disk, the filaments enlarged below, subulate at the 

 tips, the alternating ones shorter. Ovary stipitate, usually 4- or 6-celled; 

 ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit a fleshy, globose or ovoid, 2- to 6-celled berry. 

 (After P. Clausen, a Danish botanist.) 



Species about 20, tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia, 4 or 5 in the 

 Philippines. 



1. C. anisum-olens (Blanco) Merr. Cayomanis, Galomata (Tag.). 



A small tree 3 to 6 m high, nearly or quite glabrous. Leaves 20 to 30 

 cm long; leaflets 7 to 11, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 5 to 11 cm long, 

 very aromatic when crushed, acuminate, crenate, base inequilateral. Pan- 

 icles 15 to 20 cm long, terminal and in the upper axils, narrowly 

 pyramidal. Flowers greenish-white, fragrant, about 8 mm in diameter, 

 5-merous. Fruit globose or oyoid, nearly 1 cm in diameter, whitish when 

 mature. 



Occasionally cultivated, Singalon, fl. May-June; rather widely distri- 

 buted in the Philippines. Endemic. 



