Common names: Manila palm. An elegant solitary, and slender palm to 6m tall. Trunk is to 25cm in diameter, marked with closed annual rings. Leaves are crowded in the terminal part of the trunk. The sheaths are green, imbricate, and surrounding the top of the trunk. Petiole is recurved, to 2m long, strongly arched. Leaflets are narrow-lanceolate, acute, to 70cm long and to 5cm wide. Flowers are borne below the leaves, in short spreading branches, whitish green. Fruits are bright red, elliptic-ovoid, and smooth. A popular ornamental palm widely cultivated throughout the country. A fast grower, readily propagated from seeds. Endemic. Genus is named after James Veitch, a famous English nursery man.
Vitex parviflora
Common names: Molave. Erect branching tree to 15 m tall. Leaflets are opposite, digitately 3-foliate and petioled. Leaflets are ovate to lanceolate. The panicles are somewhat pyramidal in shape and the individual flowers are blue and finely hairy outside, which are numerous, globose, and to 6cm in diameter. Indigenous to Java, Amboina, Timor, Philippines, and Celebes. Used to be widespread and common in secondary and primary forest in the Philippines but now becoming rare in its original habitat. Occasionally planted in roadsides and parks.