NOVEMBER 15, 1907] A FASCICLE OF Tayapas Fies 
2. F. fastigiata Elm. Leaf. Philip. Bot. 1; 44, 1906. 
Represented by 7841, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. It usually inhabits rocky 
ridges or outcroppings of alpine districts of Luzon. F. va- 
lidicaudata Merr. is very near this species, but 967, H. N. 
Whitford, from Mount Banahao, Province of Tayabas, Luzon, 
is F. guyeri Elm. 
3. F. confusa Elm. Leaf. Philip Bot. 1; 47, 1906. 
Specimens 7425 and 7936, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Prov- 
ince of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1906 and 1907. Usually along 
water courses of light woods of the foothills at 800 meters 
and in thickets bordering rice fields at 200 meters lower 
down. Number 7936 was collected in the former place and 
has thinner slenderly caudate leaves. 
4. F. caudatifolia Warb. in Perkin's Phrag. Fl. Philip. 
194, 1905. F. eucaudata Elm. (in part) Leaf. Philip. Bot. 
1; 46, 1906.—Shrub, 3 to 8 m. high, its branches widely 
ramifying, slender, wiry, glabrous, smooth, gray or yellowish 
gray, the terminal young portion chocolate brown; wood 
soft, white. Leaves chartaceous, horizontally spreading, flat 
or slightly conduplicate on the upper surface and with re- 
curved tips, scattered along the twigs, dark lucid green 
above, duller and lighter green beneath, glabrous, the cau- 
date apex 2 to 3 em. long, base obtuse or subcuneate, the 
medium blade 16 cm. long and 5 cm. across the middle, 
edges mostly entire or frequently obscurely undulate, the 
larger ones ovately lanceolate to oblong, the smaller blades 
subelliptic; petiole 3 to 5 mm. long, comparatively thick, 
scurfy brown; bud scales triangularly acuminate, 3 mm. long, 
of a similar color, sometimes puberulent; straw colored veins 
very prominent beneath, the basal pair closely following 
the margin clear to the caudate point and connecting with 
the 3 or 4 lateral pairs, reticulations also prominent. 
Receptacles globose, solitary or several from the leaf axils or 
axils of fallen leaves, upon 1 to 1.5 em. long recurved scabrous 
peduncles, 1 cm. in diameter, harsh, yellowish red, with 
milky white lenticels, ultimately becoming smooth, soft and 
dark red; umbilicus only slightly raised; number 7516 ap- 
parently only with fertile female flowers; pedicel thick, spongy; 
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