217 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I, Arr. 11 
numerous toward the ends, leathery, paler green beneath, 
flat, heavy, usually hanging, oblong, 2 dm. long, 5 cm. wide, 
apex acute, base attenuate, the margins finely serrate es- 
pecially toward the base, striate; stipules 2 to 3 em. long, 
thin, brown, adnate and clasping the stalk toward its base, 
1 em. wide above the middle, apex rounded, its nerves 
arching above the middle. Main peduncle usually recurved, 
10 to 15 em. long, 8 mm. thick; secondary peduncle trian- 
gular, 3 to 4 cm. long, 5 mm. thick; pistillate spadices 
immature, globose, 3 to 5-clustered, 4 em. in diameter; 
fruits 12 mm. long, columnar, 4 mm. thick just below the 
middle, the upper two thirds gradually tapering and an- 
gular; rim of apex hard, truncate, bearing 5 to 7 stigmas. 
Type specimen 9010, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. It is very luxuriant in woods 
overhanging river banks especially near rapids. Named 
after Mr. E. D. Merrill. 
9. F. globosa Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. Vol. 2; No. 4, 
Sec. C, 260, 1907.—Stems sparingly branched from near the 
base, tightly cleaving to a small tree trunk, climbing up 
5 to 8m., 1 em. in diameter, smooth, hard and brown 
or when old becoming gray; rings at most 1 em. apart; 
branches divaricate, sparingly rebranched, subpendulous, 1 
to 3 m.long, forming bushes toward the top. Leaves main- 
ly upon the growing shoots, rather dense and arranged 
in 3 rows (2 lateral rows and an upper middle one), usu- 
ally subdeflexed, 2 to 3 em. apart, 4 to 6 cm. long, 1 
to 2 em. wide, oblong or narrowly ovate to elliptie, with 
abruptly contracted and twisted bases, acute and sub- 
falcately twisted apices, subcoriaceous, striate, the margins 
and midnerve beneath finely serrate, those leaves between 
the annular growths of the branches much smaller and even 
_ bract like; stipule 5 to 10 mm. long, the blunt apex ciliate, 
becoming marcescent, about 3 mm. wide. Infrutescence ter- 
minal, upon 1 em. long main peduncle which is about 4 
mm. in diameter; syncarpia immature, 2 to 3, upon 1 to 
2 cm. long and slender secondary peduncles; receptacles 1 
em. long and 5 mm. thick, oblong; stigmas 3 to 5; mature 
fruits not seen. 
