302 A FLORA OP MANILA 



2. GYMNOSPORIA Wight & Amott 



Shrubs or small trees, often subscandent, branches usually spiny.- Leaves 

 alternate. Flowers in axillary cymes. Calyx 4- or 5-cleft. Petals 4 or 

 5, spreading. Stamens 4 or 5, inserted underneath the disk. Ovary Im- 

 mersed in the disk, usually 3-celled, cells 2-ovuled. Capsules dehiscent, 

 seeds 1 or 2 in each cell, ariUate. (Greek "naked" and "seed.") 



Species 60 or more, widely distributed in warm countries, a single vari- 

 able one in the Philippines. 



1. G. spinosa (Blanco) Merr. & Kolfe. 



A somewhat scandent, glabrous shrub 1 to 4 m high, the axils usually 

 with very small, short spines. Leaves obovate to oblong-obovate, apex 

 rounded, base wedge-shaped, margins finely toothed, 6 to 10 cm long. 

 Cymes small, axillary, rather few-flowered, slender, subumbellate, 1 to 2 

 cm long. Flowers small, greenish-white, 5-merous, the calyx-teeth small. 

 Petals oblong, obtuse, 3 mm long. Capsules red, subglobose, 5 to 8 mm 

 long, somewhat 3-angled. 



In thickets, Masambong to Pasay, fl. Oct.-Dec.; widely distributed in 

 the Philippines. Endemic. 



3. StPHONODON Griffith 



Small glabrous trees with alernate, shortly petioled, slightly crenate 

 leavesi. Inflorescence axillary, subcymose, few-flowered. Flowers small, 

 6-merous, Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5, spreading. Disk not distinct. Sta- 

 mens 5, connivent aroiind the pistil, the ^laments flattened. Ovary half- 

 immersed, conical, the summit hollowed out, stigmatose in the cavity; cells 

 numerous in 2 to 4 series, each 1-ovuled. Fruit ovoid or globose, hard, 

 of uniform texture throughout, the pulp brittle when dry, the numerous 

 seeds scattered irregularly through the dry pulp. 



Species 3, India to Australia, 2 in the Philippines. 



1. S. celastrlneus Griff. Matang-olang (Tag.). 



A small tree 5 to 8 m high. Leaves pale when dry, oblong, shining, 

 coriaceous, 12 to 22 cm long, acuminate, base acute, the petiole less than 

 1 cm long. Flowers small, greenish, the petals about 1.5 mm long. Fruit 

 globose or ovoid, pale when dry, glabrous, 1.5 to 2.5 cm in diameter. 



In dry thickets Masambong, San Francisco del Monte, etc., fl. May; 

 of wide distribution ih the Philippines at low altitudes, India to Malaya. 



76. HIPPOCRATEACEAE (Hipfocratea Family) 



Scandent, unarmed, usually gl^rous shrubs with opposite, rarely alter- 

 nate, simple, entire or slightly toothed leaves. Flowers small, regular, 

 perfect, in axillary or terminal fascicles or cymes. Calyx-tube short, the 

 lobes 5, imbricate. Petrls 6, free, inserted under the disk, imbricate, rarely 

 valvate. Disk strongly developed, usually thick and fleshy, lobed or entire. 

 Stamens 3, rarely 2, 4, or 5, inserted on the disk; filaments short, flattened, 

 free, or somewhat adnate to the ovary, recurved. Ovary surrounded by 

 the disk, 3-ceUed; ovules 2 to 10 in each cell. Fruit subglobose, baccate or 

 drupaceous, 1- to 3-celled, fleshy, indehiscent, or of 3 elongated flattened 

 carpels which are connate below, and uauaHy dehiscent. Seeds winged or 

 not. . r 



Genera 2, species about 150 in the tropics of b(ki hemispheres, 2 genera 

 and 6 or 6 species in the Philippines. 



