DECEMBER 10, 1906] A FascrcLE or East LEYTE Fies 
Type specimen 7169, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. This rare species has some 
affinities with F. obpyramidata King but can be distinguished 
externally by its much larger receptacles which are not 
puberulent nor verrucose and are without vertical ridges. 
Named in honor of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Cassidy, teachers 
in Leyte. 
VI. EUSYCE. 
Flowers unisexual, male and gall flowers in one set of 
receptacles, fertile female flowers usually in a distinct set 
of receptacles; male flowers with 2 stamens, rarely 1 or 3; 
receptacles small or often quite larger, axillary; scandent 
or erect shrubs or small trees, rarely epiphytal; the leaves 
alternate, softly hairy or glabrous, not scabrous, nor hispid. 
21. F. odorata (Blco.) Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 17; 15, 
1904. F. hispida odorata Bico. Fl. Filip. ed. 1; 688, 1837. 
—Our specimen is a 4 m. high shrub. Leaves arranged in 
distichous rows along the slender half drooping branches. 
Figs pubescent and yellowish red when mature, in leaf 
axils or in the axils of fallen leaves. 
Specimens from the forest of middle Luzon are tall 
trees, more membranous and with slightly different shaped 
leaves. The natives use the rough leaves for scouring purposes. 
Specimen 7172, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of Leyte, 
Leyte, January, 1906. 
22. F. villosa Bim. Bijd. 441, 1825-6.—A much branched 
scandent shrub, with tough wood and brown bark; young 
twigs pubescent; leaves chartaceous, long, brown pubescent 
especially beneath, ovate to ovate oblong, 20 cm. long 
including the 2 to 3 cm. long petiole, 7 cm. wide, base 
broadly rounded, apex gradually tapering to an acute or 
acuminate point; nerves ascending, very prominent beneath, 
the 7 to 9 pairs united of the ends; stipule subpersistent, 
2 to 3 em. long, dry and brown, glabrous on the outside, 
strigose along the median vein of the ventral side, apex 
finely acuminate; bud scales 6 mm. long, sharply pointed, 
covered with numerous long brown hairs. 
