394 A FLORA OP MANILA 



2. EHRETIA Linnaeus 



Erect shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, entire or toothed. Inflores- 

 cence of terminal or axillary corymbs or panicles, or flowers solitary and 

 axillary. Flowers small, white, 5-merous. Calyx^S-partite. Corolla-tube 

 cylindric or short, 5-lobed, lobes spreading or reflexed. Stamens 5, inserted 

 on the corolla-tube. Ovary 2-celled, cells >2-ovuled; style terminal, cleft 

 or 2-cleft. Fruit a small, 4- to 1-seeded drupe. (In honor of D. G. Ehret, 

 a Bavarian botanist.) 



Species 50, mostly in tropics of the Old World, 4 in the Philippines. 



Leaves ample, 8. to 18 cm long; styles single, bifid; a tree. 



1. E. navesii 

 Leaves small, 1 to 6 cm long, in alternate fascicles; styles usually 2, un- 

 divided; a small shrub 2. E. microphylla . 



1. E. navesll Vid. 



A tree 4 to 10 m high, the inflorescence and leaves, when young, some- 

 what pubescent beneath, becoming glabrous or nearly so. Leaves oblong- 

 ovate, elliptic-ovate, or ovate, entire, 8 to 18 cm long, acuminate, base usually 

 rounded. Corymbs terminal and axillary, peduncled, 5 to 10 cm long, few- 

 to many-flowered. Flowers white, about 8 mm long. Style simple, bifid. 

 Fruit ovoid, somewhat fleshy, about 5 mm loiig, (Fl. Filip. pi. 70, E. 

 virgata.) 



In thickets, Masambong to Guadalupe, occasional, fl. May-June; widely 

 distributed in the Philippines. 'Endemic. 



2. E. microphylla Lam. (E. huxifolia Roxb.). Cha, Chaa-bundoc (Tag.). 

 An erect, much branched shrub 1 to 4 m high. Leaves in alternate fas- 

 cicles, obovate to oblong-obovate, scabrous, 1 to 6 cm long, entire or some- 

 what toothed or lobed near the apex, base narrowed, subsessile or shortly 

 petioled. Flowers axillary, solitary, or 2 to 4 on a common peduncle, the 

 inflorescence shorter than the leaves, somewhat hairy. Calyx-lobes green, 

 somewhat hairy, linear, 5 to 6 mm long. Corolla white, 5 mm long, the 

 lobes oblong, obtuse. Fruit drupaceous, globose, somewhat fleshy, yellow, 

 4 to 5 mm in diameter, the stone globose, 4-seeded. (Fl. Filip. pi, 72, E. 

 heterophylla.) 



In dry thickets and open places opppsite Guadalupe, near Fort McKinley, 

 etc,, fl. all the year; widely distributed in the Philippines. India to For- 

 mosa and Malaya. 



3. TOURNEFORTIA Linnaeus 



Erect trees or shrubs or climbing vines. Leaves alternate, entire. In- 

 florescence terminal, forked, scorpoid. Flowers many, small, sessile or 

 subsessile, densely arranged, white or greenish. Sepals 5 or 4. Corolla- 

 tube cylindric, the 5 or 4 small lobes spreading. Stamens 5 or 4, included 

 in the corolla-tube. Ovary 4-celled; style terminal, short; ovules 1 in each 

 cell. Fruit small, ovoid, somewhat drupe-like, not distinctly separating 

 into 2 or 4, 2- or 1-seeded pyrenes. (In honor of J. D. de Toumefort, a 

 French botanist.) 



Species about 100 of wide tropical distribution, 3 in the Philippines. 



1. T. sarmentosa Lam. 



A scandent, somewhat woody vine of indefinite length, somewhat pubes- 

 cent. Leaves oblong, gi-een, shining, somewhat harsh, 8 to 15 cm long, 



