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the disk-glands; filaments free; rudimentary ovary large, 2- or 3-fid. 

 Female flowers: Calyx as in the male. Disk annular, toothed. Ovary 1- 

 to 3-celled; styles united below, recurved, entire or notched; ovules 2 in 

 each cell. Fruit fleshy, globose, 3- to 6-seeded. (In honor of J. Flugge, a 

 German physician and botanist.) 



Species 6 in the tropics of the Old World, 2 in the Philippines. 



1. F. virosa (Willd.) Baill. (F. ohovata Wall.). 



An erect glabrous shrub 2 to 4 m high, with distichous, oblong-obovate 

 to elliptic or ovate, thin, obtuse or acute leaves, 1 to 5 cm long, which are 

 usually pale beneath. Flowers numerous, pale-yellowish, short-pedicelled, 

 in dense axillary fascicles, the calyx about 2 mm in diameter. Stamens 

 usually 5, exserted, free. Fruit globose, white, 5 mm in diameter or less, 

 3- to 6-seeded. 



In dry thickets, not uncommon, fl. May-June; widely distributed in the 

 Philippines. Tropical Asia and Africa, through Malaya to Australia. 



7. ANTIDESMA Linnaeus 



Trees or shrubs with alternate, entire, stipulate leaves. Flowers small, 

 dioecious, in slender, axillary or terminal, simple or panicled spikes or 

 racemes, apetalous. Male flowers: Calyx 3- to 5-toothed or lobed. Disk 

 entire or lobed. Stamens 2 to 5, exerted, inserted around the disk, the 

 rudimentary ovary small or none, glabrous or hairy. Female flowers 

 with the calyx as in the males, or sometimes truncate. Disk annular or 

 cushion-like. Ovary 1-celled; stigmas 2 to 4; ovules 2. Fruit a small, 

 ovoid to globose, fleshy, often compressed drupe, the seed compressed, 

 rugose. (Greek "for" and "band," the bark of some species used for 

 cordage.) 



Species 65 or more in the tropics of the Old World, about 10 in the 

 Philippines. 



1. Leaves broadly elliptic, rounded at the apex 1. A. ghaesemhilla 



1. Leaves oblong-ovate to elliptic-ovate, acute or acuminate. 



2. Leaves 8 to 20 cm long, glabrous; fruit about 8 mm long.. 2. A. hunius 

 2. Leaves 5 to 10 cm long, somewhat pubescent; fruit about 5 mm long. 



3. A. leptocladum 



1. A. ghaesembilla Gaertn. Binayoyo, Bignay-pbgo (Tag.). 



An erect, much-branched tree 3 to 10 m high, more or less pubescent 

 or nearly glabrous. Leaves broadly elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 3 to 8 cm 

 long, apex broad, usually founded, base subcordate. Spikes pubescent, 

 jianicled, 4 to 10 cm long, the flowers small, sessile, white. Stamens 4 to 

 7. Fruit subglobose, olivaceous, acid, 4 to 5 mm in diameter^ smooth, when 

 dry strongly wrinkled. (Fl. Filip. pi. S6.) 



In thickets, Masambong to Santa Mesa, Pasay, etc., fl. Mar.-May, and 

 pfobably in other months; widely distributed in the Philippines. Tropical 

 Africa, Asia, and Malaya. 



2. A. BUNIUS (L.) Spreng. Bignay (Tag., Visj). 



A dioecious tree 4 to 10 m high, glabrous. Leaves oblong, acute or 

 shortly acuminate, base usually rounded, shining, 8 to 20 cm long, the 

 spikes axillaiy or terminal, simple, usually 5' to 15 cm long. Male flowers 

 sessile, the calyx green, about 1.5 mm in diameter, shallowly lobed. 

 Stamens 3; anthers purple. Female flowers shortly pedicelled, green. 

 Calyx cup-shaped. Ovary glabrous. Fruit ovoid, fleshy, red, ^cid, edible, 



