Download intra-petiolar, sheathing the stem, opposite, petiolate. Inflorescence

BLUMEA
A
28
(1982)
145
150
-
revision of Badusa (Rubiaceae, Condamineae, Portlandiinae)
C.E.
Ridsdale
Summary
The
and
a
Badusa
genus
diinae:
it is
new
closely
found
Solomon
a
is
with
was
but
again
suspect
no
that
A.
so
Bull.
74
K.
Proc.
Schum.
Am.
in
older
(1930) 28; Lemee,
Manila
genera with
short
1
(1859) 308;
Nat.
(1929)
Pfl.
480.
—
4,
Flowers
the base.
Leaves
lobes imbricate,
usually shortly
united
anthers
basifixed,
shaped,
attached
at
Flowering
introrse.
to
septum
Style
at
and
clear
was
that
Krukoff Botanist
/.
4
the
to
and
identity
not
be traced
belongs
to
Badusa,
in
Benth.
A.
Stamens
exserted.
of
& Hook.
Disc
arms,
loculicidally.
/.,
Gen.
(1891) 54; Gillespie, Bishop
O.
Kuntze,
in Post &
PI.
2
Mus.
Kuntze,
Gray.
Stipules
shallowly
inter- and
inserted
intra-petiolar,
undulate to deltoid, inside
petiolate. Inflorescence
filaments long
junction
of Malesian
was
these
However,
to
at
an
axillary thyrse.
hypocrateriform, inside
the
base
of
the corolla,
exserted, included part pubescent;
small.
Ovary 2-locular,
ovules
acropetally
Seeds small,
placenta
imbricate.
slightly winged
or
Botany, Rijksherbarium, Leiden,
The Netherlands
Y-
Fruit
crested
end.
B. A.
from
Fiji through
New Guinea.
by Nees,
Corolla infundibular
quincuncial.
the base,
capsule splitting septicidally
one
opposite,
(4- or) 5-merous, pedicelled.
pubescent;
corymbifera
the stem, annular,
sheathing
plant
material
intrapetiolar cup-like stipules
Bathysograya
Terminal vegetative bud shortly trigonal.
the base and
species:
B.
Hook.
Fam.
trees.
at
unusual
Condamineae)
Gray (Tribe
& Prantl.
Diet.
Type
Portlan-
Palawan,
far been traced.
Small
at
an
the type material could
62.
—
from
literature.
near
(1903)
with colleters
*)
from Biak,
Lexic.
connate
Malesia
this genus.
far known from Tonga,
so
collected
Acad. Arts 4
Engl.
subtribe
is described
Macrocnemon parviflorum from the Moluccas also
type material has
Gray,
(1873) 42;
Condamineae
Subsequently it
Unfortunately
BADUSA A.
Badusa
to
collection
two
are
from
of Bikkia.
in the
the
biakensis.
pre-identified
one
Merrill.
ssp.
Cinchona
supposedly
in Madrid. Badusa and Bikkia
I
of
possibly reported
philippica
locality being questioned by
and
corymbifera
to
palawanensis
B.
species
of Badusa,
species
new
Cinchoneae
new
specimens
and Micronesia,
further material
Badusa
B.
materials
indeterminate
were
I.
Biak,
the
A
found which had been
under
specimens
from
to Morierina.
the
through
was
transferred
from
subspecies
Sorting
Palawan
is
related
a
at
C.
146
E. Ridsdale:
Badusa
KEY TO THE
la.
b.
2a.
Calyx
Corolla tube
long.
b.
with filiform lobes 5-6
Calyx margin undulate
over
10
or
mm
long. Calyx
Fig.
80766).
1.
3-4
mm;
lobes
mm
5-8
mm
long. Calyx
arbores mediocres.
sp.
less than
nov.
—
2 mm
2
narrowly triangular,
palawanensis.
—
a.
cm
habit
3.
long
Stipulae annulae, undulatae,
2-3
basi
dorso
cuneata,
glabrae.
nervis
B.
B.
Folia
2-2.5
mm
palauensis
corymbifera
b. flowers
x
4;
c.
fruit
(a.
elliptica 7-10
lateralibus
longi. Inflorescentia lateralia, axes
x
palawanensis
Fig. 1.
utrinque glabra, apice acuminata,
pubescentia; petioli (1.5—)
Badusa
B.
long
2.
tube
cm, chartacea
domatia
1.
Palawan
Palau
Corolla
Frutices vel
2-3
long.
SPECIES
with triangular lobes less than 4
Badusa palawanensis Ridsd.,
1.
mm
(Rubiaceae)
7-10
floriferae
PNH
x
paribus,
solitariae.
93357; b,
c.
PNH
BLUMEA
Flores
5-meri.
Corolla
lobis
5x2
oblongis
Shrub 2
Leaves
mm.
3
high,
m
axils. Petiole
normal and reduced
Flowers
only
lobes
inside
glabrous,
crowned by
1
5-6
lobes
pubescent;
persistent calyx
and
5x2
oblong,
Note.
2.
348;
46
x
Decoction
(1935)
415.
Small
5-15
tree
3-5.5(-6.5)
acute; lateral
of
used
roots
domatia in the
densely hairy
lateral shoots, these
on
from upper
1
bearing
2 nodes.
or
glabrous. Calyx glabrous;
mm,
Capsule
mm.
tube
6
mm,
6
oblong,
tube
outside
long,
mm
(PNH 80766, 91357).
to
malaria.
cure
14150
m
these sometimes
bearing
reduced leaves
glabrous. Capsule
9
long.
mm
up
—
45
(1931)
Micron.
(Enum.
photo L).
-
PI.)
Syntypes:
12-15
10-12
mm
2-3
x
long.
mm
long. Leaves elliptic (-oblong), 6-13
and below
2
often
mm
cm
densely
long
apex acute; base
domatia
villose
with 2-3
lobes
long;
long;
mm
twisted
or
exserted,
5-6
narrowly triangular,
outside
rolled.
stigma
in
major nodes,
Flowers 5-merous. Pedicel
cm.
mm
tube 10-12
mm,
12-14
Style
x
3-4
glabrous;
with
20
to
up
5
to
Calyx
hypocrateriform;
pubescent; lobes linear,
anthers
mm
pairs, usually drying pallid,
6-7
Corolla
long.
3-5
above
long. Inflorescence axillary,
long. Hypanthium
Univ.
(n.v.).
8-11
nerves
(?t
1910
s.n. anno
high. Stipules deltoid,
cm
mm
Kraemer
somewhat coriaceous,
cm,
(1930) 299; Kanehira, Bot. Mag. Tokyo
Bot. Jahrb. 63
(1933) 353, fig. 183; J. Dept. Agric. Kyushu Imp.
axils. Petiole 1-3
exserted,
with
glabrous.
summit of limestone hill.
Lectotype:
—
14098,
2-2.5
undulate,
remnants.
palauensis Valeton, Engl.
Fl. Micronesica
Ledermann
mm
longis.
pubescens,
palauensis Valeton
Badusa
Badusa
Rocky
mm
leviter
glabrous; apex acuminate;
long. Corolla infundibular;
Distribution. Palawan, Lipuon Peak
Ecology.
below
branching
2
Hypanthium
mm
5-6
filiformis,
long, shallowly
mm
pairs, inconspicuous,
leaves, rather compacted
filiform,
lobis
(L).
long. Inflorescence terminal
mm
147
longo, extus glabra intus
chartaceous, above and
7-10
1982
1,
longus,
mm
mm
80766
PNH
s:
known in bud, 5-merous.
long;
mm
tubo 6
Stipules annular,
cm,
nerves
evoluta,
u
y p
diam.
2-3
(1.5-)
T
2-3
x
bene
No.
28,
1.5
longum. Calyx
mm
—
cm
7-10
elliptic,
base cuneate; lateral
1.5
2
Hypanthium
infundibularis, nondum
VOL.
glabrous,
Stamens
obovoid.
inside
14—16
Disc
mm
small,
long.
Distribution. Micronesia: Palau.
Ecology.
Note.
A
manuscripts
Kanehira
photograph
at
notes
and
that
the Rijksherbarium
Jahrb. 63 (1930)
Also
288-233).
the
plant
of
rocks.
found among Veleton's
recently
were
which included
sketches
coral
on
grows
sketches
some
notes
some
for 'Fl.
Mikronesien' (Bot.
of Randia,
species
Oldenlandia,
Amaracarpus, and Tarenna have been found.
3.
Badusa
Cinchona
corymbifera (Forst. f.)
corymbifera
(1781) 144; Forst./.,
Nat. Hist.
Selskab.
361; Linn., Syst.
Forst.
Fl.
Nov.
/.,
Inst. Austr.
Kpbenhavn
Veg.
ed.
15
1
A.
Gray
Act.
Soc.
Prodr.
Sci.
Uppsala
3
(1786) 15; Vitm.,
(1790) 22; Symb.
Bot.
2
(1780) 176; Linn., Sp.
Sum.
PI. 1
(1791) 37; Gmel., Syst.
(Murray) (1797) 222; Lambert,
Descr.
PI.
(1789) 461; Vahl,
Nat.
Genus Cinchona
1
Suppl.
Skrift.
(1792)
(1797) 14,
C. E.
148
ForstHerb.
25, fig. 5;
Austr.
Ridsdale:
Method.
Lamarck, Encycl.
1
part
Bot.
Nom.
G.
358;
Bot.
9.
(1811) 6,
ed.
ed.
A
Home,
Hist.
(1840)
1
2,
1,1 (1821) 331;
Gen.
Don,
1
6,
Cinchonae
in
year
Gillespie, Bishop
Yuncker, Bishop
3
623.
Badusa
Fiji (1881) 257;
Mus. Bull.
Mus.
Bull.
A.
corymbifera
Drake
del
220
Bot.
111.
Castillo,
Forests Brit. Solom.
I.
Fl.
Bull.
Is.
5
Thunberg)
(1830)
Nom.
Ins.
Prodr.
Acad. Arts
Mar.
4
Pacific
(1859) 308;
(1890) 1853;
(1940) 418;
Bot. Club 67
(1964) 187, fig. 67;
168.
C.
(1819) 20; Steudel,
4
Torrey
(1966)
(1805) 197;
(1836) 175; Steudel,
Am.
Proc.
Gray,
1
(praside
(1826) 227; DC.,
Fl. Suds.
(1959) 246; Parham, PI. Fiji
to
Bot. Cinch,
Chinae
Bemerk.
Sum.
(1798) 959; Vitm., Suppl.
Schultes, Syst. Veg.
(1930) 28, fig. 37; Fosberg,
74
264, fig. 78; Whitmore, Guide
&
Bergen, Monograph.
(1834) 482; Endlicher,
—
2
1,
Dissert.
Roem.
corymbifera
Von
PI.
sp.
(1804) 36, 73; Pers., Synop.
(1806) 36; Forsberg,
Exostemma
—
(Rubiaceae)
(1797) 7, 16; Willd.,
(1802) 263; Rohde, Monogr.
PI.
Badusa
rev.
ed.
(1972)
Type: Forster, Tonga
—
(n.v.).
Badusa
Guill.,
occidentalis
Arn.
J.
Arb.
13
KEY TO
Corolla lobes 5-8
la.
mm
(1932)
3.
Type:
—
(n.v.).
dentate.
shallowly
to
Solomon I
b.
393
THE SUBSPECIES
lobes undulate
long. Calyx
Guillaumin
Tonga, Fiji
subsp.
Corolla lobes
12
over
long. Calyx lobes deltoid. Biak
mm
to
corymbifera
subsp.
biakensis
subsp. corymbifera
3a.
Tree
7
to
up
m
high,
d.b.h. up
to
8
bark
outer
cm;
glabrous,
5-15
base
x
inside with colleters
3-7(-9)
acute
to
at
the base. Leaves
attenuate; lateral
long. Inflorescence
axillary,
bracts
merous
flowers sometimes present in
Hypanthium
3-5
reduced leaves up
x
oblong, 5-8
exserted,
crowned
stigma
clavate.
by persistent
mm
Disc
calyx
small,
and
mm
long,
glabrous,
Petiole 1-3
exserted;
Capsule
Corolla
lobes
8-10
ovate-
5-7
long. Style
mm
and
septicidally
4-
long.
outside
cupular,
pubescent;
mm
cm
(come
mm
glandular.
cylindrical,
dehiscing
remnants,
(3—)5—15
apex
anthers 4-5
(-oblong),
acuminate;
these sometimes
somewhat
inside
to
5-merous
usually
Pedicel
shallowly dentate,
glabrous.
disc
Flowers
cm.
0.5-1.5
to
mm
acute
major nodes,
inflorescence).
outside
long,
Stamens 8-10
mm.
1.5
x
same
lobes undulate
tube 5-7
1.5-3
5
to
long, outside
obovate
to
apex
mm
pairs, usually drying pallid.
long, with 3
cm
long, glabrous. Calyx
mm
glabrous, inside pubescent;
hypocrateriform;
6-8
nerves
(2-)5-20
bearing
or
(elliptic-) oblong
chartaceous; above and below glabrous;
cm,
inner bark
light brown, fissured;
soft, yellowish white; wood hard, yellowish brown. Stipules deltoid, 3-5
mm
long,
slightly
loculicidally.
Distribution. Tonga;
Fiji:
Ovalau,
Viti
Levu;
New
Hebrides;
Aneityum,
Espiritu Santo; Solomon I: Guadalcanal, Nggela, Malaita, New Georgia.
Ecology.
notes
growing
beach
3b.
Commonly
plant growing
on
on
reported
limestone in
from
secondary
coral limestone in Solomon I.
beach and
ridge
forest.
and Chew Wee-Lek RSNH 312
Tonga
but here also
reported
on
plutonic
Gillespie
notes
plant
rocks
near
{BSIP 12302).
subsp.
biakensis
Ridsd., subsp.
Differt ab
subsp. corymbifera
Tree 20
m;
bole
6
m,
fissures,
slightly peeling,
Stipules
deltoid, 3-4
mm
18
nov.
corollae lobis
cm
diam.;
majoribus
outer
inner bark whitish
long, apiculate.
13
bark
yellow;
Leaves
mm
longis.
greyish
—
T
y p
u
brown with
heartwood
s:
BW2365
many shallow
pallid yellowish
elliptic (-oblong),
(L).
7-16
x
brown.
3-6
cm.
BLUMEA
cymes, 10-25
Inflorescences axillary
4
up to
4
x
cm.
Flowers 5-merous.
6-7
mm
long. Corolla tube
mm
long. Capsule 5-8
VOL.
mm;
1,
149
1982
long, with 3 major nodes bearing reduced leaves
cm
2-3
Hypanthium
lobes
No.
28,
13
mm
long.
mm.
Calyx
14
Stamens
1.5
lobes deltoid,0.5
mm;
exserted; anthers
mm
4-5
long.
mm
Distribution. New Guinea: Biak, Arjombokar.
Ecology.
Note.
In
B.
between
forest
Secondary
form of the
the
and
corymbifera
limestone.
on
and
calyx
B.
corolla this
is rather intermediate
subspecies
palauensis.
DUBIOUS SPECIES
1.
Macrocnemon
M.
2
Curae Post
88.
(1841)
[Hort.
Roxb.
parviflorum
Syst. Veg.
parviflorum Roxb.
Beng. (1814) 85,
G.
(1827) 73;
Type: Roxburg
—
nud.],
nom.
Gen. Hist.
Don,
3
Fl.
Ind.
1,
ed.
2
(1824) 144; Spreng.,
Nom.
(1834) 512; Steudel,
Bot.
Shrubby, leaves short-petiolate, lanceolate, entire, smooth. Stipules annular,
Peduncles
Badusa
Cinchona
Badusa
Note.
that
the
4
(1797) 15,
Roem.
&
Schultes, Syst.
s.n.
Merrill
area
and,
prope
the
as
this
plant
mentioned was
locality
PI. Vase.
in Santa
Manila
excluded
Chinae
Bot.
(1834) 482; Steudel, Nom.
Rev.
329; Rohde, Monogr.
t.
Dissert. Bot. Cinch,
Bergen, Monograph.
philippica Vidal,
Nees
Type:
from the
3
philippica
Von
(1821) 331;
Gen. Hist.
Ic.
(1805) 196; Forsberg,
Bot. 1
Exostemma
1
been
always
American genus
in
ed.
me
are
in
as
allied
young
to
of
Badusa has
a
Y-shaped placenta
edge, comparable
acropetally
En.
traced
known
this
it
standpoint
G.
Don,
3
(1923)
106.
576.
—
Madrid).
had
of
range
1,
ed.
App. (1880)
Philip.
in
9.
Bot.
(1830) 360;
Novis.
F.-Vill.,
nothing approaching
4
(1811) 6,
been
recollected
Badusa, suggested
should be
questioned.
POSITION
Cinchoneae where it has been
considered
nature
of
the
that
Badusa
seeds. Further,
to
the
compared
is
a
very
to
few genera of
base
the
of
the
atypical
the
corolla;
(1979) reports
the
Unfortunately
same
I
aestivation
have
not
in
quincuncial.
all
been able
the genera
to
examine
Bikkia.
shaped in section) and bears
one
106;
1
Nom.
corolla lobes; when the corolla is 5-merous, it is
Portlandia which she studied.
buds
Prodr.
Laguna (not
However,
(1804) 36, 71; Pers.,
Thunberg) part
Exostemma, Hintonia, and Schmidotia. Badusa has
Coutarea,
that Aiello
note
C.
anthers with filaments attached
It
to
Cinchonae
(1819) 20; Steudel,
5
2,1 (1840)
de la
always
in the
the
interesting
the
have
imbricate aestivation of
is
Veg.
outside the then
error.
particularly
Cinchoneae have basifixed
to
I
(praside
Filip. (1888) 150; Merr.,
Cruz
species
was
placed
Exostemma.
member of this tribe,
those known
truncate.
Moluccas.
native of
(1826) 226; DC.,
SYSTEMATIC
Badusa has
A
Vidal
philippica (Cav.)
philippica Cav.,
Synop.
2,
further collections known from the Moluccas
No
Note.
2.
Corolla «cetabuliform.
axillary, many-flowered.
ed.
(not traced).
s.n.
imbricate,
to
attached
more or
to
the septum in the central
that illustrated for Bikkia (Grisea)
comparable
portion (here
less horizontal, scarcely winged seeds attached
perhaps
to
Cigarella
and
by
Halle. The ovules
Ceuthocarpus
(Aiello,
T-
at
are
J.
C.
150
Am.
Arb. 60,1979:
'wing'.
or
Cigarella
Cinchoneae; presence
where
appear
In
it
to
most
Ridsdale:
38-126), slightly
Aiello excludes
consider that the
E.
correct
or
mucronate at
of
raphides
closely approaches
the
subtribe
free and which
was
not
into the short
develops
a
place
in
mentioned.
Hedyotideae
Despite
this
I
of Badusa is in the Condamineae subtribe Portlandiinae
the
New
be few differences between these
aestivation
(Rubiaceae)
from Condamineae suggesting
absence
position
Badusa
Caledonian genus Morierina; indeed there
two
genera, except the size of the floral parts.
Portlandiinae differs
from the
remainder of
the
Con-
damineae; Coutarea, Exostemma, Hintonia, and Schmidotia differ from this subtribe only
in the orientation of the seeds and their mode of attachment. However, the remainder of
the Cinchoneae
observations).
recognition
at
is
also
Further
heterogeneous
study
tribal level.
might
in
well
this
respect
indicate
(Ridsdale & Friskus,
that
the Portlandiinae
unpublished
are
worthy
of