196 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE DoTANY { Vou. l, Arr. 8 
F. semicordata Miq., which to our knowledge does not 
extend to the Philippines. Named in honor of Mr. and 
Mrs. J. L. Fiske, teachers in Leyte. 
14. F. guyeri n. sp, —A 3 m. high shrub, with slender 
lax branches; wood rather hard; bark thin, brown, smooth. 
Leaves membranous, usually descending, frequently a trifle 
inequilateral, subsessile or upon 3 mm. long pulverulous 
peduncles, base obtuse, apex slenderly caudate, lanceolate, 
5 to 12 cm. long, 1 to 3 cm. wide, shining green above, 
paler beneath, edges entire; veins 3 from the base in addition 
to the 3 to 5 primary pairs; bud scales 5 mm. long, narrow 
and slenderly acuminate. 
Receptacles solitary or in pairs from the leaf axils 
upon slender 1 to 2 cm. long glabrous peduncles which are 
subpendulous, glabrous, reddish when mature, tbe younger 
ones usually provided with a few bracts, globose, 6 mm. in 
diameter, the umbilicus only slightly raised; syconium becom- 
ing soft and bristly ciliate on the interior; male flowers 
monandrous, beneath the umbilical scales, 2 mm. long: 
pedicel less than 0.75 mm. long, glabrous; stamen oblong 
to elliptic, less than 0.5 mm. long, truncate at the apex, 
emarginate or lobed at the base; perianth united at the 
base, glabrous, hyaline, white but turning brown with age, 
mostly with 5 linear or oblanceolate segments which exceed 
and enclose the anther prior to anthesis; gall flowers 
3 mm. long; pedicel 1.5 mm. long, also glabrous, slender; 
ovary subglobose, smooth, hard, 0.75 mm. in diameter, with 
a 0.5 mm. long sublateral dark brown style; perianth united 
about the pedicel, its 4 or 5 segments oblanceolate and 
exceeding the ovary with the style. 
Type specimen 71727, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. Judging from fruit and leaves 
alone it is very similar to F. fastigiata Elm., but that species 
grows in open alpine rocky places while the species here 
proposed as distinct inhabits the woods of the foothills. 
This difference in habitat may ‘account for F. guyeri Elm. 
having slenderer branches, larger and more membranous 
leaves. Besides these well marked field characters there are 
also floral differences and the hairy inner surface of the 
