194 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY Von. i, ART. S 
lateral 0.75 mm. long dark brown style which bears a 
small emarginate stigma. 
Collected in copses and light woods at sea level. Quite 
common and very fructiferous—on some trees the figs comp- 
letely covering the stems. From King’s plate and descrip- 
tion in the Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. 1; 78, 1887, plate 
96, it is nearly typical. although this species has hitherto 
been known only from the island of Halmaheira in western 
Celebes. Because of its fruits on tubercles of stems and 
larger branches this species should be classed under Covellia. 
Specimen 7336, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of Leyte, 
Leyte, January, 1906. 
12. F. benguetense leytense n. var.—A spreading 8 
m. high tree; bark smooth and grayish white. Leaves sub- 
coriaceous, lucid green on upper surface, duller and with a 
few strigose hairs along the nerves beneath, broadly oblan- 
ceolate, 14 em. long, 6 em. wide above the middle, acute 
at the apex, base obtuse or rounded and obscurely inequi- 
lateral; veins ascendingly curved, 7 to 9 pairs, reddish brown; 
petiole 1 to 2 cm. long, strigose or with age becoming 
glabrous; bud scales 1 cm. long, brown, acuminate, glabrous. 
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Receptacles chiefly in the leaf axils or in the axils of 
their scars, usually in pairs, smooth, hard, pyriform, 2.5 
em. long, 12 mm. in diameter above the middle, with a 
prominently raised umbilicus; peduncles about 5 mm. long, 
subglabrous, terminated by 3 acute and subglabrous bracts; 
fertile female flowers 3 to 4 mm. long; pedicel of the mature 
flower 2 mm. long, slender, obscurely jointed at a trifle 
below the middle, glabrous; perianth equalling the pedicel, 
tightly enclosing it below the middle, inflated above this, 
glabrous, brown, gamophyllous or obliquely truncate and 
obscurely  bilobed; ovary subcompressed, obovoid, glab- 
rous, less than 1.5 mm. long; style 1 mm. long or longer, 
glabrous and slender, sublateral, brown, recurved in age, the 
stigma slightly thicker and darker brown. 
Type specimen 7174, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province _ 
of Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. It chiefly differs from the | 
species in being a spreading tree whose true pyrifrom recep- 
tacles are either solitary or in pairs and more or less scat- | 
