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slightly pubescent when young, finally becoming glabrous and 
when exposed to the sun turn to a purplish red; its base 
abruptly contracted into a pedunculate stalk, 1 to 3 mm. long and 
subtended by 3 broadly obtuse cinereous bracts which frequently 
are unequally inserted; peduncle proper short brown pubescent, 
1.5 em. long; our receptacles contain only male and gall 
flowers; staminate flowers few, immediately beneath the 
umbilical scales, 2 mm. long, subsessile, the 2 or 3 stamens 
enveloped by entire obovate brown membranous segments; 
filaments dark, cartilaginous, united at the base; anthers 
caudate, broad, 0.75 mm. in length; gall flowers closely set, 
4 mm. long, stoutly pedicellate, subtended by a similar per- 
ianth whose 3 or 4 segments finally become lacerate; ovary 
ellipsoid, or obovoid; style lateral, short but rigid; stigma 
terminal, disc like, pale yellow, with the infundibuliform 
apex easily separating from the style. 
Type specimen number 8026 was collected near Baguio 
toward the barrio of La Trinidad. Number 8036 from Sablan 
is the identical species with immature flowers. It is a good 
distinct species, although it resembles F. sycomoroides Mig. 
Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3; 230, 1836-9 which has hitherto 
been reported only from Amboina, its place of discovery. 
The latter species, however, has ovate elliptic leaves with 
rounded bases; receptacle turbinate, 1 cm. in diameter, marked 
by 8 vertical rides about the umbilicus and set upon 1 em. 
long pedicels. 
