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syconium and along the peduncles; our specimen contains 
only gall and pseudo-hermaphrodite flowers; staminate flowers 
few, between the inner umbilical scales, clavate, 1.5 mm. 
long, subsessile, completely enveloped by the 5 obovate 
entire membranously margined pieces of the perianth; stamen 
1, always associated with a very rudimentary pistil; filament 
thread like, very short; anther as broad as long, 5 mm. long; 
gall flowers short stipitate, ovoid to obovoid, surrounded by 
4 brown entire oblanceolate segments which are 1.5 mm. in 
length; style subterminal, 0.75 mm. long, bearing a small capi- 
tate stigma. 
Type specimen number 8002 was discovered along a dry 
creek bed a few miles west of Baguio near the barrio of 
Irisan. Number 8013 determined as F. obscura Blm. Bijd. 
474, 1825-6 and classed under the section of Sycidium has 
a strong resemblance and may prove to be the fertile female 
specimen of this species. But the leaves of that species are 
scabrous on both sides, long acuminate, and its receptacles 
are subsessile. 
4. F. eucaudata n. sp. An erect shrub, 4 m. high, with 
lax spreading branches; bark on younger twigs smooth, gray- 
ish yellow. Leaves oblong lanceolate to oblanceolate, sub- 
coriaceous, varying in size, 10 cm. long by 3 cm. wide, 
smooth and shining on both sides, edges entire, with acute 
bases, rather abruptly extended into the 2 em. long caudate 
apex; veins very prominent beneath, straw colored, 3 from 
the base excluding the additional 3 to 5 primary pairs 
which in the typical specimen are conspicuously united below 
the margin; secondary ones irregular, also prominent; petioles 
3 to 5 mm. in length, scaly brown. 
Receptacles when fully mature red, solitary or in pairs 
from the leaf axils, globose, sparsely hispid, 1 cm. in dia- 
meter, abruptly contracted into a slender densely scabrous 1 
em. long pendulous peduncle like base which is subtended 
by 3 small bracteoles; fertile female flowers alone in our 
receptacles, 8 mm. in length, subtended by 3 or 4 hyaline 
perianth segments which are linear lanceolate and occasion- 
ally bearing a few soft hairs; achenes brownish yellow, very 
conspicuous, elongated ovoid, 1.5 mm. or slightly longer, 1 
