213 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I, Arr. 11 
about 2 cm. thick, rigid, hard, gray, smooth; rings 2 
to 3 em. apart. Leaves paler green beneath, also rigid, 
linear or narrowly lanceolate, 2 cm. wide, 3 dm. long, toward 
the base somewhat attenuate, apex gradually acuminate, 
margins involute, entire or apieulate near the base; stipule 
parchment like, 1 em. wide at the base, nearly 2 cm. long, 
with abrupt apex, clasping at the base. Infrutescence erect; 
3 to 5-clustered; main peduncle 3 em. long, 1 em. thick; second- 
ary peduncles triangular, 3 to 5 cm. long, 5 mm. thick, 
hispidly brown pubescent beneath the synearpia, thickened 
at both ends, erect; pistillate spadices immature, 15 mm. 
thick, 5 to 13 em. long, usually curved or subdivaricate, 
more frequently somewhat thickened at the apex, terete, 
hard; fruits 5 mm, long, the upper portion strongly angled, 
more or less subcompressed; stigmas 2 to 3, frequently divided. 
Represented by 9006 and 8039, A. D. E. Elmer, Luc- 
ban, Province of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. In woodlands 
of Mount Banahao from 600 to 800 meters. 
3. F. confusa n. sp.—Scandent, numerously branched 
from the base, forming tangled masses. Stems 8 mm. thick, 
green, very wiry, its rings 15 mm. apart, smooth, yellow- 
ish; branches divaricate, slender and sparingly rebranched, 
subdeflexed but usually with suberect tips. Leaves grace- 
fully recurved, thin, nearly equally shining green on both 
sides, rather numerous toward the ends of the twigs but 
those down lower much reduced and becoming bract 
like, at least 4 dm. long, 5 mm. wide, linear, the basal 
portion slightly attenuate and conduplicate, the apex grad- 
ually extended into a whip lash like point, the lower one 
third finely serrate along the margins; stipule 2 to 5 em. 
long, 5 mm. wide, parchment like, abruptly terminating 
into a small fimbriate lobe, imbricately clasping. Infrutes- 
cence erect, much exceeded by the ascending leaves, main 
peduncle short, 8 mm. thick; secondary peduncles 2 to 3 
em. long, triangular, 3 mm. thick, with a scabrous yellow- 
ish pubescence from the apex down to below the middle; 
pistillate spadices immature, 3 to 4 or even 5, subglobose 
or broadly elliptic, 2 to 3 em. long, a trifle narrower, 
crimson red when mature; drupes 7 mm. long, 3 mm. thick, 
the upper half free and angular, gradually tapering to the 
