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thick compressed or slightly angular pedicel; segments usually 
3, tightly arching over the ovary, subequal in length, only 
5 mm. long, acute and subcoriaceous; ovary 5 mm. long, 
ovoid or subglobose, deeply set upon the pedicel and not 
exceeding the segments; style subterminal, stiff, dark brown, 
25 mm. long; stigma similarly colored, enlarged. 
Type number 8004 collected at Twin Peaks is quite dis- 
tinet, and has no close resemblance to any of the valid 
species of this section in King’s monograph. 
Il. UROSTIGMA. 
Male, fertile female, and gall flowers in the same recep- 
tacle; stamen 1, rarely 2; stigma elongate, usually acute; 
receptacles in the axils of the leaves or of the scars of fallen 
leaves, usually tribracteate at the base; leaves alternate, entire, 
coriaceous or subcoriaceous, rarely membranous; usually trees 
or powerful climbers; epiphytal at least in early life. 
6. F. benjamina Linn. Mant. 129, 1707. This species 
is planted throughout the Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago, 
and is reported to be native on Timar, Sumatra and the 
Celebes. Cuming first collected it in these Islands from the 
province of Ilocos-Norte. My number 8005 was found in the 
Bued river gorge near Twin Peaks. It is a widely but rigidly 
spreading tree, 10 m. high, and presents a pleasing appearance 
with its mature blood red fruits. 
7. F. glabella Bim.  Bijd. 452, 1825-6. Specimen number 
8006 is probably a form of this species, but the young 
leaves are entirely glabrous, and the coriaceous receptacles 
chiefly from the leaf axils, bearing a raised umbilicus, beautifully 
mottled with purplish dots which ultimately seem to stain 
the entire receptacle; basal bracts conspicuous, quite thin, 
broad and 3-lobed. Only a single tree was observed on a 
more or less exposed hill between Baguio and La Trinidad. 
Its distribution outside the Philippines is given from the 
Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago, Hong-Kong, the Andamans 
and Burmah, and in the tropical forests of the eastern Himalaya 
and Khasi Hills. It has previously been reported from these 
Islands from the Province of Ilocos-Norte in the northwestern 
part of Luzon. 
