204 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [ Vou. I, Arr. 8 
ish white ciliate hairs; perianth 4-segmented, rigid and 
dark brown, acuminate, linear to lanceolate, glabrous except 
the finely ciliate margins; ovary ovoid, rugose, 12 mm. long, 
subcompressed, pointed at the apex, in the younger state 
tightly enclosed by the perianth; style 1 mm. long, thick- 
est at the base, glabrous, dark brown above the middle. 
Type specimen 7175, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. It is chiefly distinguishsd from 
typical specimens of middle Luzon by its larger less mem- 
branous leaves which are darker brown pubescent and more 
truly ovate in shape with cordate base and attenuately 
acuminate apex. 
VII. NEOMORPHE. 
Flowers unisexual; male and gall flowers in one set of 
receptacles; sterile female flowers with 2 stamens, the perianth 
inflated, of 3 to 4 membranous pieces; fertile female flowers 
smaller than the male or gall flowers; receptacles often very 
large, in fascicles from tubercles on the stem and larger 
branches; trees, rarely scandent, never epipytal. 
26. F. latsoni n. sp.—A large tall tree, with a bole 
17 m. long and 1 m. in diameter; branches thick, divaricately 
spreading; wood soft, white; bark not checked, conspicuously 
ferruginous, abundantly bleeding a milky white latex which 
soon turns gummy. Leaves confined to the ends of the 
thick and rigid twigs, unequal in size, coriaceous, lustrously 
shining on the upper surface, paler and duller green beneath, 
ovate or elliptie, 2 dm. long with the petiole, 1 dm. wide, 
abruptly contracted into an acute apex, base broadly subcor- 
date rounded or sometimes obtuse, margin mostly undulate 
or subentire, wholly glabrous; nerves 4 to 7 pairs, ascend- 
ing, conspicuous beneath; petiole glabrous, 3 to 9 cm. long in 
the medium sized leaves; bud scales about 10 mm. long, acute 
or acuminate, glabrous, brown. 
Receptacles in small clusters upon very short unbranched 
tubercles of the branches, obovoid, 12 to 20 mm. in diameter, 
its surface smooth and yellow, bearing a few whitish lenticels, 
base tapering and subtended by 3 small obtuse bracts, apex 
broad and with a rounded saucer shaped concavity, umbi- 
