190 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. I, Art. 8 
III. SYNOECIA. 
Flowers unisexual or neuter; male flowers with 1 stamen; 
male and gall flowers in one set of receptacles, fertile fe- 
male and neuter flowers in another set, or the latter absent; 
climbers with large colored receptacles, the leaves tasselate 
beneath. 
5. F. johnsoni n. sp.—A sprawling numerously branched 
shrub or subscandent in habit; wood rather wiry; bark 
yellowish gray, more or less verrucose, the young bark shin- 
ing smooth and pale yellow. Leaves scattered along the 
branchlets, shining green above, less so beneath, coriaceous, 
turning reddish brown when cured, 1 dm. long including 
the petiole and 4 cm. wide across the middle, but quite 
variable in size, apex acuminate, base obtuse or rounded, 
oblong to narrowly elliptie or frequently obscurely ovate to 
obovate, above glabrous, sparsely strigose beneath, margins 
entire; veins prominent beneath, subglabrous and reddish, the 
primary 5 to 7 pairs ascending and united at their apices; 
petiole 1 to 2 cm. long, wholly glabrous, yellowish brown; 
bud scales sharply acuminate, 12 mm. long, olivaceous 
pubescent. 
Receptacle 1 or 2 from leaf axils, pendulous upon stout 
2 to 3 em. long glabrous penduneles, smooth surface dull 
yellow when mature, ovoid or obscurely elliptie, 3 to 4 cm. 
long by 2.5 cm. in diameter below the middle, its base 
abruptly constrieted into a short stalk and subtended by 
3 rather thin and nearly glabrous acute bracts, its apex 
hard and conically tapering, the umbilicus surmounted by 
3 closely set very thickly rounded scales which are nearly 
black and extremely hard; synconium rather thick and fleshy, 
with stamens and gall flowers; stamens in a few se- 
riate circles below the umbilical scales, monandrous, sub- 
tended by 2 to 3 linear lanceolate 2.5 mm. long subequal 
bracts; pedicel 4 mm. long, usually curved, united to the 
perianth which at the apex is broadly bilobed; these glab- 
rous lobes tightly surround the anther before anthesis; the 
true filament less than 0.5 mm. long, brown, tumid; anther 
broadly elliptic, much curved ventrally, 1.5 mm. long, dark 
brown on the back; gall flowers subtended by similar bracts, 
