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13. MORI N DA Linnaeus 



Erect or climbing shrubs or small trees with terete or 4-angled branches. 

 Leaves opposite, the stipules connate, sheathing. Flowers white, in axillary 

 or terminal, solitary or panicled, dense heads. Calyx-tubes more or less 

 connate,- the limb short pr none. Corolla short or long, the lobes 4 to 7, 

 valvate. Ovary 2-celled, ovules 1 in each cell. Fruit large, formed of 

 the fleshy, enlarged, connate calyces, enclosing the cartilaginous or bony, 

 1-seeded pyrenes. (From "morus" and "indicus," from fancied resemblance 

 of the fruit to that of the mulberry.) 



Flowers without bracteoles 1. M- citrifoUa 



Flowers subtended by 1 to 1.5 cm long, leaf-like bracteoles which persist 

 in fruit ,-— 2. M. bracteata 



1. M. citrifolia L. Bancudo, Nino, Lino (Tag.). 



An erect, glabrous shrub or small tree 3 to 10 m high. Leaves broadly 

 elliptic to oblong, obtuse, acute, or slightly acuminate, 12 to 25 cm long. 

 Peduncles leaf -opposed, solitary, 1 to 3 cm long. Heads dense, ovoid or 

 globose, in flower 1 to 1.5 cm in diameter, enlarged in fruit, ovoid, fleshy, 

 white or greenish-white, and 3 to 6 cm long. Flowers not bracteolate, 

 the cajyx truncate, the corolla white, about 1 cm long, the limb 5-lobed, 

 1 cm in diameter. (Fl. Filip. pi. 52.) 



In thickets, occasional, fl. all the year; widely distributed in the Phil- 

 ippines. India through Malaya to Australia and Polynesia. 



2. M. bracteata Eoxb. Bancudo, Lino, Nino (Tag.). 



Very similar to the preceding, but often with smaller leaves, and always 

 with leaf-like bracts 1 to 1.5 cm long subtending the flowers and persistent 

 in fruit. 



Range of the preceding. 



14. PSYCHOTRIA Linnaeus 



Erect shrubs or small trees, rarely climbing. Leaves opposite, the 

 stipules intrapetiolar, often connate. Flowers small, usually numerous, in 

 terminal cymose panicles. Calyx-tube short, the limb often deci^upus. 

 Corolla-tube short, straight, the throat naked or hairy, 5-lobed, lobes rarely 

 4 or 6. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes, inserted on the throat; 

 filainents usually short. Ovary 2-celled; cells 1-ovuled. Fruits small, 

 globose, ovoid, or oblong, somewhat fleshy, with two, 1-seeded, plano-convex, 

 usually longitudinally ridged or sulcate pyrenes. (From the Greek vivify- 

 ing" on account of the supposed medical qualities of some spices.) 



Species more than 500 in all tropical qnd subtropical countries, 35 or 

 more in the Philippines. 

 1. P. lusonlen.ls (Cham.) F.-ViU. (P. taepo Rolfe). Tacpo or Tagpo 



(Tag )• 

 A glabrous, erect shrub 1.5 to 5 m high. Leaves smooth and shining, 

 oblong to elliptic-oblong, petioled, 8 to 20 cm long, base acute, apex acute 

 or slightly acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, at flowering time usually 

 dense, 2 to 3 cm long. Flowers congested, white. Corolla 4 to 4.5 mm 

 long 6-lobed, the throat villous. Fruits somewhat fleshy, obovoid, yellow 



