312 A FLOBA OP MANILA 



LEE A Linnaeus 



Shrubs or small trees with alternate, large, 1- to 4-pinnate rarely simple 

 leaves, the petiole dilated and sheathing at the base; leaflets ovate to 

 oblong-lanceolate, toothed. Inflorescence opposite the upper leaves, corym- 

 bosely cymose, often very large. Flowers red, yellow, or green. Calyx 5-, 

 rarely 4-toothed. Petals as many as the calyx-teeth, connate below and 

 adhering to the stanjinal-tube, free parts revolute. Stamens united at the 

 base into a 5-toothed tube, the filaments inserted between the teeth, 

 inflexed; anthers free and exserted, or connate and included. Ovary 3- 

 to 6-celIed; cells 1-ovuled. Fruit a 3- to 6-ceIIed and seeded, succulent or 

 rather dry, subglobose berry. (In honor of J. Lee, a Scotch horticulturist.) ' 



Species about 50, tropical Asia, Africa, and Malaya, few in Australia, 

 about 14 in the Philippines. 



1. Leea manlllensis Walp. Caliantan (Tag.); Amamali (Vis.). 



A shrub or small tree 3 to 6 m high, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 

 50 to 80 cm long, 3- or 4-pinnately compound, the rachis and branches 

 somewhat jointed; leaflets elliptic-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, aeununate, 

 6 to 15 cm long, sharply serrate. Inflorescence large, red, of dichotomous 

 corymbose cymes, many-flowered, up to 50 cm in diameter. Flowers 5- 

 merous, about 3 mm long, few opening at a time, the pedicels and calyx 

 red, the petals pale-yellow. Fruit dark-red, depressed-globose, about 8 mm 

 in diameter. (PI. Filip. pi. 60, L. sambucina.) 



In thickets, Pasay, Guadalupe, etc., fl. Apr .-June; widely distributed in 

 the Philippines. Endemic. 



83. TILIACEAE (LINDEN OR ANILAO FAMILY) 



Herbs, erect or scandent shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate, simple, 

 entire, toothed, or lobed. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, the flowers 

 solitary, fascicled, umbellate, cymose, or panicled. Flowers regular, perfect. 

 Sepals 3 to 5, free, valvate. Petals as many as the sepals, rarely absent. 

 Stamens mostly numerous, springing from a dilated torus or disk. Ovary 

 superior, free, 2- to 10-celled. Fruit fleshy or dry, dehiscent or indehiscent, 

 1- to many-seeded. 



Genera about 36, species about 400, in most parts of the world, but chiefly 

 tropical, 11 genera and about 45 species in the Philippines. 



1. Shrubs or trees, sometimes climbing; fruit indehiscent. 

 2. Flowers fascicled, umbellate, or paniculate; fruit a fleshy or fibrous 



drupe „ 1. Grewia 



2. Flowers paniculate; fruit a 3- to 5-winged capsule....:....... 2. Columbia 



2. Flowers solitary or in pairs; fruit a fleshy, many-seeded berry. 



3. Muntingia 

 1. Suffrutescent herbs or undershrubs; fruit dry, dehiscent. 



2. Capsules prickly...„ „..„ _ 4. Triumfetta 



2. Capsules not prickly _ _ 5. Corehonu 



1. GREWIA Linnaeus 



Erect or scandent shrubs or trees, more or less stellate-pubescent. 

 Leaves toothed or entire, base 3-nerved or nerves often more numerous. 

 Flowers axillary, fascicled or umbelled, or sometimes in terminal panicles. 

 Sepals 5, free. Petals 6, glandular at the base, sometimes wanting. Sta- 

 mens many, on a raised torus. Ovary 2- to 4-celled. Drupe fleshy or 



