328 ^ FLORA OP MANILA 



4. S. cuneata R. Br. Malabunot, Calucalumpangan (Tag.). 



A deciduous tree 4 to 15 m high, more or less rusty-pubescent, the 

 branchlets somewhat thickened. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branch- 

 lets oblong-obovate to broadly oblong-lanceolate, 10 to 35 cm long, rather 

 abruptly short-acuminate, base rather broad, rounded-cordate, pubescent on 

 the nerves, especially on the lower surface. Panicles in the upper axils, 

 rather narrow, usually ' about as long sis the leaves, reddish-brown or 

 purplish, hirsute. ' Flowers greenish-brown or reddish, ovoid to obovoid, 10 

 to 12 mm long, hirsute, calyx-lobes cohering by their apices, longer than 

 the tube. Follicles inflated, oblong to oblong-obovoid, 3 to 6 cm long, brown 

 anfl densely rusty-pubescent outside, red or purple within. Seeds 7 or less, 

 ellipsoid, 10 to 12 mm long. 



In thickets, Masambpng to Guadalupe and Pasay, fl. Nov., Feb.-Mar.; 

 widely distributed in the Philippines. Endemic. 



2. HERITIERA Aiton 



Trees with simple, coriacious, entire leaves which are pale and densely 

 scaly beneath. Flowers small, unisexual, in axillary panicles. Calyx 4- 

 to 6-toothed. Petals none. Anthers in a ring at the top of the column. 

 Ovaries 5 or 6, almost free, ovules solitary. Fruits indehiscent, woody, 

 keeled or winged. (In honor of C. L. I'Heritier, a French botanist.) 



A small genus of 7 or 8 species, tropical Africa and Asia through 

 Malaya to Australia, 1 or 2 in the Philippines. 



1. H. littoralis Dryand. Dungon-late (Tag.). 



A tree 5 to 15 m high or more. Leaves oblong-ovate to elliptic-ovate, 

 10 to 20 cm long, apex obtuse or acute, base usually rounded, the upper 

 surface glabrous and shining, the lower surface densely covered with small, 

 round, pale or silvery-white scales. Panicles pubescent, 7 to 15 cm long, 

 the flowers numerous, yellowish-green, bell-shaped, about 5 mm long, usually 

 5-toothed. Fruit hard and shining, smooth, 4 to 6 cm long, broadly boat- 

 shaped, keeled. (Fl. Filip. pi. SU-) 



Near the sea, Malabon, Malate, etc., rarely also cultivated, flowering 

 at intervals throughout the year; along the seashore throughout the Phil- 

 ippines, yielding the valuable timber known as dungon or dungon late. 

 Widely distributed along the tropical seashores of the Old World. 



3. THEOBROMA Linnaeus 



Trees with large, alternate, entire, oblong leaves. Flowers small, per- 

 fect, regular, solitary or fascicled on the trunk and branches, or axillary. 

 Calyx 5-fid, the sepals nearly free. Petals 5, concave and hooded below, 

 above inflexed and narrowed, produced into a flat or spathe-like limb. 

 Staminal-tube with 5, linear, acuminate, erect lobes; stamens 1 to 3 in 

 each sinus of the staminal tube. Ovary sessile, 5-celled, many-ovuled. 

 Fruit ovoid, large. 



Species about 20 in tropical America, 1 now cultivated in most tropical 

 countries. (Greek "god" and "food," literally "food of the gods.") 



*1. T. CACAO L. Cacao, Chocolate. 



A tree 3 to 5 m high. Leaves 15 to 40 cm long, acuminate, base rounded 

 oblong-obovate to oblong, base shortly 3-nerved. Flowers solitary or fas- 

 cicled on the trunk and branches, yellowish or nearly white, pedicelled, 

 about 1 cm in diameter, the erect lobes of the staminal column purplish. 



