TILIACBAE 313 



fibrous, entire or 2- to 4-Iobed. (In honor of Dr. N. Grew, an English 

 physician and botanist.) 



Species 70 or more, tropics of the Old World, about 20 in the Philippines, 

 one in our area. 



1. G. multiftora Juss. Danglin (Tag.). 



A shrub or small tree 3 to 8 m high, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 

 oblong-ovate to elliptic-ovate, 4 to 14 cm long, 2.5 to 5 cm wide, often 

 somewhat inequilateral, base usually rounded, 3-nerved, apex; acuminate, 

 margins crenate-serrate. Inflorescence of small, axillary, solitary umbels, 

 the peduncles longer then the petioles, each with from 2 to 7 flowers. 

 Buds globose or ovoid. Flowers about 1 cm in diameter, greenish-yellow. 

 Sepals pubescent outside, much longer than the petals. Fruit obovoid, 

 about Q mm long. 



In thickets, San Juan, Guadalupe, etc., fl. Sept.-Dec; throughout the 

 Philippines. India to Africa, and Malaya. 



2. COLUMBIA Persoon 



Trees or shrubs with simple, usually oblique leaves. Flowers in terminal 

 panicles. Sepals 6, distinct. Petals 6, glandular at the base. Stamens 

 many, free, inserted on a raised torus. Ovary 3- to 5-celled, the cells 2- 

 tb 4-ovuled; style subulate, entire. Capsule rounded to obovoid, 3- to 6- 

 winged, ultimately splitting into 3 to 6 1-seeded, indehiscent cocci. (In 

 honor of Christopher Columbus, discoverer of America.) 



Species about 18, tropical Asia and Malaya, about 10 in the Philippines. 



1. C. aerratlfolla (Cav.) Pers. Anilao (Tag.). 



A shrub or small t^ee 3 to 10 m high, the branches and inflorescence 

 hirsute. Leaves oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 10 to 20 cm 

 long, base very oblique, margins coarsely or finely serrate, the upper sur- 

 face becoming nearly glabrous, the lower surface pale, rather densely 

 pubescent and hirsute. Panicles terminal and in the upper axils, many- 

 flowered, 10 to 30 cm long. Flowers clustered, 6 to 7 mm long. Sepal^ 

 pubescent. Petals pink and yellowish or reddish. Capsules about 1 cm 

 long, broader than long, 8- or 4-winged. (Fl. Filip. pi. 272, C. anilao.) 



In thioJcets near San Francisco del Monte, fl. May-July; widely distrib- 

 uted in the Philippines. Endemic. 



3. MUNTINGIA Linnaeus' 



A stellate-pubescent tree with alternate, toothed, inequilateral, distichous 

 leaves. Flowers white, solitary or in pairs, their pedicels inserted just 

 above the leaf -axils. Sepals 6, lanceolate, valvate. Petals entire, obovate. 

 Stamens indefinite, free, inserted on an annular subperigynous disk. Ovary 

 6- to 7-ce'.lled, ovoid, surrounded by a dense ring of white hairs. Stigma sub- 

 sessile, thick, sulcate-lobed. Fruit a fleshy,^lobose, many-seeded berry. (In 

 honor ol' A. Munting, a Dutch botanist.) 



A single species in Mexico and South America. 



1. M. (MiLABURA L. Datiles, Ratiles (Tag., eorruption of Sp. datil=da.te.) 

 A treie 9 to 10 m high, viscid-pubescent with stellate hairs, the branches 

 spreading. Leaves alternate, distichous, oblong-ovate to broadly oblong- 

 lanceolate, 8 to 13 cm long, acuminate, toothed, base inequilateral, one side 



''' Flact^d in the Elaeoea/rpaeeae in the "NatUrlichen Pflanzenf amilien." 



