DeceMBER 10, 1906] A FascicLE or East Lryte Fias 205 
ical scales conspicuously raised; peduncles 1.5 to 3 em. 
long, slender, glabrous and brown; male and gall flowers 
only; male flowers in between the umbilical scales, dian- 
drous, upon a thick 1 mm. long pedicel, surrounded by 
a thin brown colored subgamophyllous perianth which slight- 
ly exceeds the flowers; filaments 0.5 mm. long, glabrous; 
anthers ova] or broadly elliptic, nearly 1 mm. long, gall 
flowers upon tumid 0.5 mm. long peduncles; ovary hard, 
obovoid, 1 mm. in diameter and 1.5 mm. long, subsessile, 
brown and smooth, subtended by a 8 to 5 lacerate or in 
the younger state subentire perianth; style yellowish white, 
0.5 mm. long, mealy in appearance, arising from one side 
of the gall ovary, 0.75 mm. in diameter, short clavate and 
with a pronounced sunken apex; the stigma with its style 
does not increase in length while the ovary does. 
Type specimen 7178, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. This is the most stately erect 
fig tree thus far known in the Archipelago, and is met here 
and there in the wooded ravines of the foothills from 
northern Luzon to Mindanao. In the field it can always be 
recognized by its characteristic color of the bark and the 
abundance of latex it contains. In recent collections it has 
been determined as F. variegata Bim. from which it differs 
in having on an average longer petioles and shorter ped- 
uncles; receptacles smaller, not globose nor compressed at 
the apex, and not red with white streaks and dots. It is 
without much doubt F. laevigata  Blco., but this name is 
preoccupied. Named for Mr. E. E. Latson, a teacher in Leyte. 
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