450 A. FLORA OP MANILA 



cm long, few-flowered, the bracts and bracteoles small, acuminate. Corolla 

 white, the tube slender, about 2 cm long. Fruit globose, fleshy, red, 8 to 

 10 mm in diameter. 



In dry thickets, Masambong, fl. July-Sept.; widely distributed in the 

 Philippines. Endemic. 



8. HYPOBATHERUNl Blume 



Erect shrubs or small trees with distichous, lanceolate, glabrous or 

 pubescent leaves which are narrowed at both ends. Flowers small, fas- 

 cicled or cymose in the leaf-axils, bracteolate. Calyx-tube short, turbinate, 

 the limb 4- or 6-lobed, persistent. Corolla-tube cylindric, the throat beard- 

 ed, the lobes 4 or 5, rounded, villous inside. Stamens 4 or 5, alternate 

 with the lobes of the corolla. Ovary 2-celled; style short; stigmas 2, 

 villous, oblong or linear-oblong; ovules 4 to 8 in each cell. Fruit ellipsoid 

 or subglobose, baccate, few-seeded, long-peduncled. 



Species 3 or 4, India to Malaya, 1 in the Philippines. 



1. H. glomeratum (Bartl.) K. Sch. Calagre (Tag.). 



An erect dioecious shrub 2 to 3 m high, more or less pubescent or nearly 

 glabrous, the branches long, the leaves distichous. Leaves oblong-ovate to 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 9 to 15 cm long. Flowers fascicled, many in 

 each axil, white, the glomerules sessile or shortly peduncled, or the perfect 

 flowers peduncled. Calyx pubescent inside about 7 mm in diameter, the 

 lobes 4 or 5, spreading, obtuse. Corolla about 4 mm long, campanulate, 

 the lobes rounded. Fruit ovoid, fleshy, pubescent, about 1.5 cm long, 

 long-peduncled. (Fl. Filip. pi. 56, Memijia odorata.) 



In thickets, occasional, Malabon, Pandacan, etc., fl. Sept.-Jan., widely 

 distributed in Luzon. Endemic. 



9. GUETTARDA Linnaeus 



Trees with opposite, usually ample leaves, the stipules intra-petiolar, 

 deciduous. Flowers secund, polygamous, on the branches of axillary, pe- 

 duncled, cymes. Calyx-tube short, the limb toothed, usually deciduous. 

 Corolla-tube long, cylindric, the throat naked, the lobes 4 to 9, imbricate, 

 oblong. Anthers within the tube, linear. Ovary 4- to 9-celled, cells 1- 

 ovuled. Fruit a globose drupe, the endocarp woody, 4- to 9-celled and 

 grooved, perforated at the top opposite the cells. (In honor of E. Guettard.) 



Species about 50, all in tropical America except the foUovring: 



1. Q. •peciosa L. Bagaolan, Tabon-tabon (Tag.). 



A tree 3 to 8 m high, the branchlets rather stout, often with large 

 petiolar-scars. Leaves obovate, thin, softly pubescent on the lower surface, 

 12 to 26 cm long, the tip abruptly apiculate or acuminate, the base rounded 

 or subcordate, the lateral nerves prominent, about 10 pairs. Cymes shorter 

 than the leaves, the flowers fragrant, somewhat crowded on the short 

 branches. Corolla white or cream-colored, silky-pubescent externally, about 

 8 cm long, usually 5- or 6-merous. Drupe globose or depressed-globose, 2 

 to 3 cm in diameter, consisting chiefly of the woody endocarp, cells 4 to 

 9, usually 6 or 6. 



Along the seashore, Pasay, fl. most of the year; throughout the Philip- 

 pines along the. seashore. Tropical shores of both hemispheres. 



