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racemose or cymose. Flowers white, very fragrant. Calyx-teeth 8 to 10, 

 very slender, 5 to 8 mm long, mostly longer than the tube. Corolla-tube 

 slender, 1 to 1.5 cm long, the limb usually double, 1.5 to 2 cm in diameter. 

 (Fl. Filip. pi. 6.) 



Frequent in cultivation, but not spontaneous, fl. all the year. A native 

 of India, now much cultivated in all tropical countries. 



4. J. MULTIFLOEUM (Burm.) Roth. Sampaguita de China (Sp.-Fil.) ; 

 Lagitic (Tag.). 



An erect or somewhat climbing shrub 2 to 5 m high, more or less pubescent. 

 Leaves ovate, 4 to 9 cm long, base cordate, apex acuminate. Cymes ter- 

 minal, crowded, densely many-flowered, 7 to 10 cm in diameter. Flowers 

 white, fragrant. Calyx pubescent, the lobes linear, 5 to 6 mm long. Co- 

 rolla-tube about 1.5 Cm long, the lobes 7 to 9, spreading, oblong, 1.5 to 

 1.8 long. 



Cultivated for ornamental purposes, fl. most of the year. A native of 

 India,' introduced in the Philippines and cultivated only. 



113. SALVADORACEAE (Salvadoea Family) 



Scandent or rambling shrubs with opposite entire leaves and slender 

 axillary spines. Flowers small, dioecious, axillary, sessile, or in small 

 axillary or terminal panicles, clusters, or umbels. Calyx free, campanulate, 

 4-fid or irregularly 2- to 4-lobed. Petals 4, oblong, imbricate. Stamens 

 4, alternate with the petals, hypogynous. Ovary superior, 2-celled; stigma 

 nearly sessile, large, 2-fld. Ovules 2 or 1 in each cell. Fruit a small 

 globose or ovoid, 3- to 1-seeded berry. 



Genera 3, species 6 or 7, tropical and subtropical Asia, Africa, and 

 Malaya, a single genus and species in the Philippines. 



AZIMA Lamarck 



Characters of the Family as given above. 



Species 2 or 3, tropical Asia to Malaya and South Africa, in the Phil- 

 ippines. 



1. A. sarmentosa (Bl.) Benth. 



A scandent or rambling, glabrous shrUb 2 to 4 m in length, rank-smelling 

 when crushed, the branches slender, terete, green. Leaves shining, ovate 

 to elliptic-ovate, entire, acute, apiculate, 5 to 8 cm long, short-petioled, the 

 spines usually 2 or 4 at each node, slender, sharp, 5 to 10 mm long. 

 Panicles terminal and axillary, 4 to 15 cm long, the bracts small. Flowers 

 greenish, about 3 mm long. Fruit fleshy green or nearly white, sub- 

 globose, about 6 mm in diameter, with from 1 to 3 seeds. 



In hedges and thickets, Malabon, Pasay, Maypajo, etc., fl. Feb.-Mar.; 

 in the Philippines of local occurrence, and possibly an introduced plant only, 

 but if so, naturalized. India to Burma, and Malaya. 



114, LOGANIACEAE (Strychnine or Igasud Family) 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, sometimes climbing, with opposite, simple, entire 

 or slightly toothed leaves, the stipules various or none. Flowers regular, 

 in simple or compound, terminal or axillary cymes, sometimes subspicate, 

 or even solitary. Calyx 4- or 5-lobed, inferior. Corolla 4- or 5-lobed, 

 small or large. Stamens 4 or 5, inserted on the corolla-tube, alternate 



