DECEMBER 10, 1906] A FascicLE or East Leyte Fies 199 
by the base of the receptacle rounded, not contracted into 
a peduncle like stalk. Specimen 7339, A. D. E. Elmer, 
Palo, Province of Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. 
19. F. satterthwaitei n, sp.—Tall 12 m. high tree with 
a trunk 4 dm. thick; branches divaricate or toward the top 
ascending; young bark grayish brown, smooth. Leaves chiefly 
toward the ends of the twigs but not clustered, dark green 
above, paler beneath, subcoriaceous, glabrous on both sides 
or the nerves beneath with a few strigose hairs, elliptic to 
oblong, usually equally sided, 2 dm. long and 8 em. wide across 
the middle but frequently much larger or smaller, the apex 
short acute, base obtuse or rounded, rarely acute, margins 
entire or obscurely crenately toothed; nerves ascending, 
prominent beneath, dark brown, about 9 pairs, secondary 
nerves fine and transverse; petiole stout, subglabrous, 2 to 
3 em. long; bud scales glabrous, brown, 15 mm. long, 
acuminate. 
Receptacles in dense large clusters upon short branched 
tubercles of the stem and larger branches, upon 15 mm, 
long nearly glabrous peduncles, glabrous, obovoidly com- 
pressed, 15 mm. high, 25 mm. in diameter, its base rounded 
and subtended by 3 rather thick short acute bracts, apex 
usually concave with prominent ridges, umbilicus somewhat 
raised but its scales not protruding, yellowish white when 
mature, its surface more or less dotted with lenticels; fertile 
female flowers 9 mm. long, glabrous, upon slender glabrous 
almost 2 mm. long pedicels, younger ones subesessile; base 
of the pedicel dark brown and tumid, provided with the 
gamophyllous perianth; ovary dark brown, ovoid to obovoid 
or ellipsoid, bearing a terminal style; perianth 2 mm. long, 
glabrous, the upper half inflated, its rim oblique and irreg- 
ularly toothed; style glabrous, slender, reddish brown, 1.5 
mm. long, usually curved, bearing a thickened lighter color- 
ed .stigma; ovary brownish, rugulose, apex of most of the 
flowers tapering. ; 
Type specimen 7181, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. This species of figs is quite 
rare in this locality and inhabits the woods of the fertile 
valley of the Bafgon River. It is relates to F. fistulosa 
