544 Learvets or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. lI, Anr. 26 
tips, dark green above, yellowish so beneath, subfalcate, oblan- 
ceolately oblong, strongly inequilateral, tips slenderly acumi- 
nate, cuneate at the base, alternate, rather numerous toward 
the end of the branchlets, variable as to size, the larger 
blades 1 dm. long, 3 cm. wide just a trifle above the mid- 
dle, dark tawny when dry, glabrous above, soft dark yellow- 
ish brown pubescent beneath; petiole less than 5 mm. long, 
densely pubescent with yellowish brown hairs; nerves con- 
spicuous beneath, ascendingly curved, 5 to 7 or even as many 
as 9 lateral pairs, the fine reticulations quite evident beneath; 
bud scale 5 to 10 mm. long, acuminate, the outside covered 
with similarly colored hairs. 
Receptacles upon slender branched tubercles from 5 cm. ym 
to 5 dm. long and which arise from the roots or from 
the basal portion of the stems and lying upon the ground, 
dark green, with yellowish brown excrescences or lenticels, 
usually in small clusters of 3, subglobose, 12 mm. in diam- 
eter; peduncle 3 to 5 or even 8 mm. long, when young 
short brown pubescent; involucral bracts short, similarly pubes- 
cent, terminating the peduncle; the inner surface of the syco- 
nium provided with dark brown 1 mm. long bristles; flowers 
gall and male only; the staminate ones scattered in a circle 
immediately beneath the umbilical scales, 2 mm. long, obo- 
void, upon a 0.75 mm. long pedicel; the solitary stamen 
covered over with a brown glabrous gamopbyllus perianth; 
filament 0.5 mm. long, comparatively thick; anther nearly 
1 mm. long, nearly as broad, truncate at both ends; gall 
flowers 3 mm. long including the 1 mm. long smooth brown 
pedicel or the younger ones subsessile, obliquely ellipsoid, 
deep brown, 1.5 mm. in diameter, without a perianth; style 
subterminal, very short, bearing an obscurely lobed disk like 
stigma. 
Type specimen 10179, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, 
siga Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, May, 
One tree was found on a steep side of a densely wooded 
spur at 3500 feet. : ; 
Its affinities are with F. linearifolia Elm. but the leaves 
are much smaller and comparatively broader, and with much 
shorter branched tubercles. 
