356 ^ FLORA OF MANILA 



pedicelled, 5-merous, the calyx-lobes lanceolate, about 7 mm long. Petals 

 obovate, white, pale-yellow at the base, about 12 mm long. Capsule linear, 

 cylindric, 2 to 3 cm long, about 3 mm in diameter, base narrowed, some- 

 what longitudinally ridged. 



In muddy places, pools of stagnant water, slow streams etc., fl. most 

 of the year; widely distributed in the Philippines. All tropical countries. 



2. J. suffruticosa L. 



A stout, coarse, erect, glabrous or somewhat pubescent, more or less 

 branched, often suifrutescent herb 0.4 to 1.5 m high. Leaves lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 6 to 15 cm long. Flowers axillary, sessile or nearly so. Calyx 

 green. Petals 4, yellow, orbicular-obovate, about 1 cm long. Capsules 

 green or purplish, 3 to 5 cm long, 5 mm thick or less, 8-ribbed, the persistent 

 calyx-lobes; oblong-ovate, acute or acuminate, about 1 cm long. 



In open damp or wet lands, fl. all the year; throughout the Philippines. 

 In most tropical countries. 



3. J. LINIFOLIA Vahl. Silasila (Tag.). 



An erect, branched, glabrous annual, 20 to 60 cm high, with green 

 or purplish, 3- or 4-angled or winged stems, and spreading, 3-angled 

 branches. Leaves narrowly elliptic-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 base decurrent on the petiole, 4 to 10 cm long. Flowers axillary, solitary, 

 sessile, the calyx-tube slender, about 8 mm long, the calyx-lobes 4, green, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, nearly 4 mm long. Petals 4, narrowly oblong-elliptic, 

 as long as the sepals. Stamens 8. Stigma globose. Capsule green or 

 purplish, about 3 cm long, 1 to 2 mm in diameter, the seeds faintly or not 

 visible through the walls. 



In open wet places, old rice fields, etc., common, fl. all the year; through- 

 out the Philippines. A native tropical America, introduced and natural- 

 ized here and probably also in the Malay Archipelago. 



106. ARALIACEAE (GINSENG OR PaPUA FAMILY.) 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees sometimes climbing, smooth or prickly. Leaves 

 alternate, rarely subopposite, simple, entire or variously lobed, digitate, or 

 1- to 3-pinnate. Flowers small, regular, perfect or polygamo-dioeciousj 

 in umbels, racemes, or panicled heads, the pedicels continuous or jointed. 

 Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, the limb none, or truncate, or toothed 

 Petals 5, rarely more, valvate or imbricate, spreading, or coherent and 

 falling as a whole. Stamens as many as the petals, alternate with 

 them, inserted around the disk, rarely more numerous. Ovary inferior, 

 1- to 6-celled, rarely more; styles as many as the cells', free or united;' 

 ovules 1 in each cell. Fruit coriaceous or drupaceous, small, cells 1 to 5 

 or 6 or more, the endocarp usually ridged. 



Genera 54, species 650, in all parts of the world, chiefly tropical, 10 

 genera and 50 species in the Philippines. 



Leaves simple, pinnate, or pinnately decompound 1. Nothopanax 



Leaves palmately compound 2. Schefflera 



1. NOTHOPANAX Miquel "poju $ C( Ct5 



Glabrous unarmed shrubs with alternate, simple, pinnate, or pinnately 

 decompound leaves. Flowers small, polygamous, in panicled umbels, 6- 

 merous. Calyx-tube obconical, the limb with 5 minute teeth. Petals 5, 

 valvate, triangular-ovate, base broad. Stamens 5, inserted with the petals 



