Cerbera manghas L.

12896. Serbera odoll*® Gaertn, Small erect tree
on wooded gravelly creek banks at 260 feet altitude; stem
terete, 5 inches thick, 20 feet high or lees, branched from
below the middle; wood very soft, light, slightly odorous,
white, tasteless; bark ater, thinly checked and flaking
in plates, with on abundance of latex; main branches ascend-
ingly spreading, freely rebranched, the ultimate ones as-
cendingly curved; leaves crowded, toward the tops, rotately
spreading, ascending, coriaceous, shallowly folded upon the
upper darker green surface, the sides usually wavy toward
the abruptly recurved apex; inflorescence erect, all the
stalks green, the reflexed calyx glaucous green; corolla tube
greenish, the segments white, the throat incarnatus; ovary
and stigma dark green, style whitish; anthers yellow as well
as their appendaged adnate filaments; the hairs creamy white
and held above the anthers by the corolla throat processes;
flowers erect and scarcely fragrant. Puerto Princess,
M»reh, 1911
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Cerbera manghas L.
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PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PLANTS
DISTRIBUTED BY A. D. E. ELMER
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PUERTO PRINCESA (MT. PULGAR), PROVINCE OF PALAWAN
ISLAND OF PALAWAN. MARCH, 1911
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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