286 A FLORA OP MANILA 



1. G. rubrum Blume. 



A shrub or small tree 3 to 6 m high, glabrous except the sometimes 

 slightly pubescent twigs. Leaves coriaceous, 5 to 10 cm long, shining, 

 elliptic-ovate to oblong, base acute, apex acuminate. Flowers small, about 

 2.5 mm long, greenish, short-pedicelled, in axillary fascicles. Stamens 3. 

 Ovary pubescent, globose, 3- to 5-celled, the styles united in a column about 

 as long as the ovary. Capsule depressed-globose, glabrous, pink or red, 

 7 to 10 mm in diameter, crustaceous, longitudinally about 6-sulcate. 



In dry thickets near Fort McKinley, La Loma, etc., fl. June-July, and 

 probably in other months; widely distributed in the Philippines. Malaya. 



5. BREYNIA Forster 



Erect shrubs or small trees with alternate, often distichous, entire, 

 simple leaves. Flowers very small, axillary, monoecious. Petals and disk 

 none. Male flowers: Calyx turbinate or hemispheric, truncate, the rim 

 sometimes much thickened and lobulate. Stamens 3; filaments united in 

 a column. Rudimentary ovary none. Female flowers: Calyx hemispheric 

 to rotate, shortly or shallowly 6-lobed, enlarged in fruit and disk-like or 

 cupular. Staminodes none. Ovary globose, 3-celled; ovules 2 in each 

 cell; styles 3, 2-fid or 2-lobed. Fruit fleshy, globose, indehiscent, seated on 

 the enlarged persistent calyx. Seeds few. (In honor of J. Breyne, an 

 early German botanist.) 



Species about 15, tropical Africa through Asia and Malaya to Poljmesia, 

 3 in the Philippines. 



Leaves usually ovate; calyx distinctly increasing in size in fruit. . 



1. B. cemua 

 Leaves subelliptic to oval ; calyx not or but very slightly increasing in size. 



2. B. rhamntndes 



1. B. cernua (Poir.) Muell.-Arg. Matang-olang (Tag.). 



An erect glabrous shrub 1 to 6 m high, the branchlets and leaves disti- 

 chous. Leaves ovate or subovate, thin, pale beneath, 2 to 6 cm long, acute 

 or obtuse. Flowers small, axillary. Fruit globose, pink or red, about 

 5 mm in diameter, somewhat fleshy, seated on the green, enlarged, disk- 

 like or saucer-shaped calyx which is 'often as wide or nearly as wide as 

 the fruit. 



In thickets, Pandacan, fl. most of the year; common and widely dis- 

 tributed in the Philippines. Timor to northern Australia. 



2. B. rhamnoides (Retz.) Muell.-Arg. Matang-olang (Tag.). 



An erect, monoecious, slender, glabrous shrub 1.5 to 4 m high, the 

 branchlets distichous. Leaves elliptic to elliptic-ovate, distichous, obtuse 

 or rounded, green above, pale beneath, 1 to 3 cm long. Flowers very 

 small, greenish, axillary, short-pedicelled, about 1 mm in diameter. Fruit 

 globose, pink, about 5 mm in diameter, somewhat fleshy, seated on the very 

 slightly accrescent calyx. 



In thickets, Pasay, San Pedro Macati, etc., fl. June-July; widely distrib- 

 uted in the Philippines. India to China and Malaya. 



6. FLUGGEA Willdenow 



Erect shrubs or small trees with small, alternate, entire, distichous 

 leaves. Flowers small, pedicelled, dioecious, apetalous, axillary. Male 

 flowers numerous. Sepals 5, imbricate. Stamens 3 to 5, alternating with 



