284 A FLORA OF MANILA 



spreading. Ovary 2- or 3-celled; styles usually 2, forked; ovules 2 in 

 each cell. Fruit drupe-like, with often scanty flesh and 1 or 2 1-seeded 

 cocci or pyrenes. (In honor of S. E. Bridal, a bryologist.) 



Species 30, tropical Asia and Africa through Malaya to Australia, 2 

 or 3 in the Philippines. 



1. B. stipularls (L.) Blume. Lubalub (Tag.). 



A scandent shrub, or suberect with scandent or dropping branches, reach- 

 ing a height of 6 m, rather densely pubescent. Leaves elliptic to elliptic- 

 ovate, acute or obtuse, base rounded or subcordate, 4 to 10 cm long, pale 

 beneath. Flowers axillary, clustered, pale-green, about 1 cm in diameter, 

 with few, scattered, purplish dots, the males sessile, the females pedi- 

 celled. Fruits about 1 cm long, oblong, seated on the enlarged calyx. 



In thickets, San, Pedro Macati, etc., fl. Oet.-Nov. ; widely distributed and 

 common in the Philippines. Tropical Asia, Africa, and Malaya. 



3. PHYLLANTH US Linnaeus' 



Herbs or shrubs with 2-ranked, alternate, entire, often small leaves. 

 Flowers small, monoecious, apetalous, in axillary clusters. Disk various, 

 rarely none. Male flowers: Sepals 4 to 6, imbricate in 2 series. Disk- 

 glands various. Stamens 3 to 5 in the center of the flower, the filaments 

 free or united; anthers oblong, the cells parallel or diverging, the slits 

 vertical or transverse. Female flowers: Sepals as in the male. Ovary St 

 celled or more; styles free or connate, usually 2-fid; ovules 2 in each cell. 

 Fruit of 3 or more, crustaceous, 2-valved cocci, or fleshy and berry-like. 

 (Greek "leaf" and "flower" from the fact that in the typical American 

 forms the flowers are borne on the leaves.) 



Species about 400, in all warm countries, 20 in the Philippihes. 



1. Shrubs with fleshy berry-like fruit. 1. P. retieulatus 



1. Herbs with dehiscent capsules. 



2. Anthers dehiscing vertically; flowers sessile or nearly so; capsules 



often muricate _ 2. P. urinaria 



2. Anthers dehiscing horizontally; flowers distinctly pedicelled; capsules 

 smooth. 

 3. Leaves 2 to 5 mm wide; usually much-branched plants; pedicels 



1 to 2 mm long 3. P. niruri 



3. Leaves 6 to 9 mm wide; slightly or not at all branched plants; 

 pedicels about 5 mm long. .>.. 4. P. aimplex 



1. P. retieulatus Poir. Tintatintahan (from Sp. tinta=iak). 



An erect or someyrhat scandent shrub 1.5 to 5 m high, the branches 

 elongated, often pendulous, somewhat pubescent or glabrous. Leaves dis- 

 tichous, oblong to elliptic-oblong, 1.5 to 4 cm long, obtuse or acute, rather 

 pale beneath, short-petioled, base rounded or obtuse. Flowers axillary, 

 solitary or few in each axil, slenderly pedicelled, 2 to 3 mm long, green 

 tinged with purple. Fruit depressed-globose, soft and fleshy, smooth, black 

 when mature, 5 to 7 mm in diameter. (Fl. Filip. pi. 2S9.) 



' For the Philippines species of this and allied genera (Agyneia, Flug- 

 gea, Glochidion, Phyllanthus, Cicca, Sauropus, and Securinega) see Ro- 

 binson, C. B., "Philippine Phyllanthinae." Philip. Joum. Sd. 4 (1909) Bot. 

 71-105. 



