274 A FLORA OP MANILA 



Ovary usually free, 2- to 5-celled; style sitaple; stigma capitate or disk- 

 like; ovules usually 2 in each cell. Fruit capsular, drupe-like, or berry- 

 like, dehiscent or indehiscent. Seeds various. 



Genera 47, species about 800, in the tropics of both hemispheres, 18 

 genera, and about 90 species in the Philippines. 



1. Leaves simple; a very low undershrub or herb 1. Turraea 



1. Leaves 3-foliolate; trees with baccate edible fruits 2. Sandoricum 



1. Leaves simply pinnate. 

 2. Flowers globose, small. 



3. Stamens 5 or 6, rarely more, in 1 series; ovary 1- or 2-celled. 



3. Aglaia 



3. Stamens 10, in 2 series; ovary 3- to 5-celled 4. Lansium 



2. Flowers elongated, cylindric 5. Dysoxylum 



1. Leaves 2- or 3-pinnate 6. Melia 



1. TURRAEA Linnaeus 



Trees, shrubs, or- in our representative a low subherbaceous undershrub. 

 Leaves simple, entire or toothed. Inflorescence axillary, racemose, few- 

 flowered. Flowers white or yellow, elongated. Calyx 4- or 5-fld. Petals 

 4 or 5, elongated, imbricate, spatulate. Staminal-tube elongated, toothed 

 at the apex; anthers 8 or 10, alternating with the teeth, inserted just 

 within the mouth. Disk annular or none. Ovary 4- or more-celled; cells 

 2-ovuled. Fruit a 4- or more-celled loculicidal capsule. (In honor of G. 

 Turre, an early Italian botanist.) 



Species 25 in tropical Asia and Africa, through Malaya, to Australia, 

 2 in the Philippines. 



1. T. humilis (Blanco) Merr. 



An erect, usually unbranched undershrub or suifrutescent herb 20 cm 

 high or less, slightly pubescent. Leaves simple, elliptic-ovate, 2.6 to 8 

 cm long, margins sinuate-toothed. Racemes axillary, usually 3-flowered, 

 short, erect. Flowers white, about 3.5 cm long. Corolla-tube slender, the 

 lobes 5. (Fl. Filip. pi. 181, T. pumilq,.) 



On banks about rocks and ledges, Guadalupe, San Juan del Monte, etc.,» 

 fl. June; known in the Philippines only from the vicinity of Manila. Java. 



2. SANDORICUM Cavanilles 



Trees with 3-foliolate leaves and 6-merous flowers in axillary panicles. 

 Calyx cup-shaped. Petals imbricate in bud, spreading. Staminal-tube 

 cylindric, nearly as long as the petals, toothed. Stamens 10 or 8, included. 

 Disk surrounding the ovary, laciniate. Ovary 5-celled, cells 2-ovuled. 

 Fruit a large, fleshy, 3- to 5-celled berry, seeds 1 in each cell surrounded 

 by a translucent, fleshy pulp. (From its Malay name, santoor.) 



Species about 7, India and Malaya, 2 in the Philippines. 



1. S. KOETJAPB (Burm. f.) Merr. (S. indicum Cav.). Santol (Tag.). 



A tree reaching a height of 15 m, the young branches and leaves 

 softly pubescent. Leaflets 10 to 25 cm long, acuminate, base rounded or 

 obtuse, elliptic to oblong-ovate. Panicles 10 to 20 cm long, the flowers 

 numerous, somewhat fascicled on the branchlets, greenish-yellow or straw- 



