DECEMBER 10, 1906] A FascicLE or East Leyte Fras 195 
tered along the branchlets. Typical F. benguetense Merr. also 
occurs in this same locality. 
13. F. fiskei n. sp.—Shrubby, 3 to 5 m. high, usually 
branched from below the middle; wood quite hard and 
tough; bark brown, younger bark yellowish, set with fine 
spinulose hairs which arise from minute cones. Leaves as- 
cending, frequently distichously arranged, very unequal, from 
5 em. to 3 dm. long and from 4 to 12 cm. wide across 
the middle, dry and quite brittle, inequilateral, base unequally 
subcordate, apex acute or acuminate, upper surface usually 
shining pale green and sparsely scabrous, beneath hispid, 
especially along the nerves, oblong; margins involute, 
undulate, apieulate or toward the apex grossly dentate, veins 
and retieulations very prominent beneath, yellowish green 
or straw color, 4 besides the midrib radiating from the 
base, about 6 primary pairs intermixed with secondary ones, 
the arching ends anastomosing; petiole uniformly short, 
stout, hispid, about 8 mm. long, narrowly acuminate, sub- 
glabrous. 
Receptacles solitary or only in small clusters, very vari- 
able in size, from 5 to 15 mm. in diameter, subglobose, 
puberulent scabrous, yellowish red when mature, subsessile 
or upon 1 em. long peduncles, either in the leaf axils or 
in the axils of their scars, upon the branches and stems 
and even upon the exposed roots, our specimens only with 
gall and male flowers; stamens monandrous, 2.5 mm. long; 
pedicel 1.5 mm. long, slender, glabrous, often with a stip- 
ular appendage from the base; filament proper sparsely ciliate 
at the base and provided with a rudimentary pistil; anther 
1 mm. long, elliptic oblong; perianth of 3 distinct hyaline 
segments which are smooth, oblanceolate and 2 mm. in length; 
gall flower 3 mm. long; pedicel 1 mm. long; ovary globose, 
nearly 1.5 mm. in diameter, smooth and shining; style brown, 
glabrous, sublateral, 0.75 mm. long, clavate. 
Type specimen 7324, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province 
of Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906; also sterile specimen 7185, 
from the same locality. It is quite common in shrubberies of 
low dry hills and in sparse woods in which the latter number 
with the large leaves was collected. Apparently it is related to 
