430 A. FLORA OP MANILA 



* 1. K. AFBICANA (Lam.) Benth. 



A wide-spreading deciduous tree about 10 m high with odd-pinnate leaves, 

 the flowers paniculate, on very long pendulous peduncles. Leaves alternate. 

 Leaflets ovate to elliptic-ovate, 8 to 16 cm long, acute or obtuse, opposite. 

 Peduncles very long. Calyx 2.5 to 3 cm long, unequally 5-toothed or lobed. 

 Corolla about 10 cm long, the tube rather slender, the limb broadly bell- 

 shaped, somewhat curved, 5-lobed. Fruit large, oblong or oblong-cylindric, 

 indehiscent. 



A. single tree in the old Botanic Garden, fl. May-July. A native of west 

 tropical Africa, now cultivated in some other tropical countries. 



7. CRESCENTIA Linnaeus 



Small or medium sized glabrous trees, with alternate, simple or 3-folio- 

 late leaves, solitary or fascicled at the nodes. Flowers on the trunk or axil- 

 lary, solitary or fascicled. Calyx • closed in bud, in flower broadly 2- to 

 6-lobed. Corolla-tube broad, bell-shaped, in front with i transverse fold, 

 ventricose. Stamens 4, in 2 pairs. Ovary sessile, 1-celled, placentae 2. 

 Fruit large, globose, indehiscent, the pericarp fleshy, becoming hardened. 

 Seeds many, imbedded in the pulp, wingless. (In honor of P. de Crescenzi, 

 an early Italian botanist.) 



Species about 5 in Mexico and Central America, 2 introduced in thd 

 Philippines. 



Leaves simple; flowers on the branches 1, C. cujete 



Leaves 3-foliolate; flowers on the trunk .:. 2. C.'alata 



* 1. C. CUJETE L. Calabash Tree. 



A glabrous, much-branched tree j4 to 5 m high. Leaves alternate, often 

 fascicled at the nodes, oblanceolate, obtuse, or shortly acuminate, base 

 gradually narrowed, subsessile, 5 to 17 cm long, the upper surface glossy. 

 Flowers axillary, solitary or in pairs, pedicelled, about 6 cm long, with a 

 somewhat foetid odor. Calyx about 2 cm long, split into 2 lobes. Corolla 

 pale-greenish with faint purplish lines, inflated, slightly curved, horizon- 

 tally plicate on the lower side, the lobes 6, equal, acuminate, toothed. Fruit 

 globose, green or purplish, 15 to 18 cm in diameter. 



Occasionally cultivated, Singalon, fl. all the year. A species of very 

 recent introduction, a native of tropical America. 



* 2. C. ALATA HBK.\ (C. alata Blanco). Hoya cruz (Sp.-FiL). 



A small tree 3 to 6 m high. Leaves in fascicles at the nodes of the 

 branches, 3-foliolate, the petioles broadly winged, oblanceolate, about 1 cm 

 wide, gradually narrowed to the slender base, the leaflets oblong-ovate, re- 

 tuse, base narrowed, acute, sessile, 3 to 7 cm long, the middle one often 

 lon>?er than the two lateral ones. Flowers solitary, borne on the trunk, 

 brownish, rank-scented, sessile or shortly pedicelled. Calyx split into two 

 lobes, about 1.5 cm longer. Corolla somewhat campanulate, about 6 cm 

 long, with 5 short lobes, the tube horizontally plicate on one side. Fruit 

 hard, globose, about 5 cm in diameter. (Fl. Filip. pi. SZT.) 



Rarely cultivated, fl. Mar .-Apr.; now only occasionaUy cultivated in the 

 Philippines. Introduced from Mexico at an early date. 



