404 A FLORA OP MANILA 



1. V. parviflora Juss. (V. Uttoralis Dene.). Molauin, Molave (Tag.). 



A tree with v«ry hard wood, reaching a height of from 8 to 15 m, 

 glabrous or nearly so, or the inflorescence puberulent. Leaflets 3, petioled, 

 ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, 7 to 18 cm long, shining, quite glabrous. 

 Inflorescence terminal, paniculate, ample, up to 20 cm long, usually some- 

 what pyramidal, many-flowered. Flowers blue, 6 to 8 mm long, the corolla 

 pubescent outside. Fruit globose or subglobose, 5 to 6 mm in diameter. 

 (Fl. Filip. pL 227, V. cUtissima.) 



In dry thickets Masambong, fl. May-Oct.; common and widely distributed 

 in the Philippines. Timor. 



2. V. negundo L. Lagundi (Tag.). 



An erect branched shrub 2 to 5 m high. Leaves usually 5-foliolatie, 

 rarely with 3 leaflets only, the middle leaflets larger than the others and 

 distinctly petioled; leaflets lanceolate, acuminate, entire, 4 to 10 cm long, 

 pubescent beneath. Panicles terminal, many-flowered, pubescent, 10 to 20 

 cm long, additional axillary ones often present. Flowers blue, 6 to 7 mm 

 long, the calyx pubescent. Fniit globose, about 4 mm in diameter. (PI. 

 Filip. PI. 228, V. bicolor.) 



In thickets etc., occasional, fl. all the year; common and widely distrib- 

 uted in the Philippines, Tropical Asia and Malaya. , 



3. V. trifolia L. Lagundi (Tag.). 



A shrub 1 to 3 or 4 m high with simple and 3-foliolate leaves, sometimes 

 prostrate or ascending. Leaflets all 3-foliolate, or some simple, or in the 

 prostrate form (var. ovata) all simple, sessile, oblong, oblong-elliptic, acute, 

 4 to 7 cm long, 1.5 to 4 cm wide, glabrous and shining on the upper surface, 

 beneath gray-puberulent. Panicles terminal, oblong, 5 to 10 cm long, 

 often leafy at the base. Corolla pubescent, lavender to blue,' the tube 

 about 8 mm long, the larger central lobe of the lower lip with a white 

 blotch at the base, the limb 12 mm in greatest diameter. Fruit globose, 

 4 to 5 mm in diameter. (Fl. Filip. pi. 226.) 



In thickets along the Pasay beach, fl. most of the year; widely dis- 

 tributed in the' Philipijines along the seashore. India to Japan through 

 Malaya to Australia. 



11. PREMNA Linnaeus 



Erect trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing, usually with a somewhat 

 rank or aromatic odor when crushed. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. 

 Cymes corymbose or panicled, usually pubescent, ample, terminal and axil- 

 lary, the bracts small. Flowers small, usually white or greenish, num- 

 erous, often polygamous. Calyx small, cup-shaped, subequal or obscurely 

 2-lipped, nearly entire, or 4- or 5-toothed. Corolla tubular, short, the 

 throat hairy, the limb 2-lipped or 5- or 4-lobed. Stamens 4, in 2 pairs. 

 Ovary 2- or 4-celled, cells 1-ovuled. Fruit a small fleshy drupe, the 

 endocarp hard, bony. (Greek ''stump" allusion to the short stems of some 

 species.) 



Species about 50, tropics of the Old World, 15 or more in the Philippines. 



1. Erect shrubs or small trees. 

 2. Leaves large, 10 to 20 cm long, uniformly and densely soft-pubescent 



on the lower surface 1. P. odorata 



2. Leaves of medium size, glabrous,. or pubescent only on and near the 

 nerves. 



