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which at the base is usually subtended by minute bracts; 
flowers pseudo-hermophrodite and gall only; the former 
rather few and confined beneath the umbilical scales, upon 
& 0.5 mm. thick pedicel, subtended by 3 narrow rather 
irregularly shaped 2 mm. long perianth segments; the pistil 
short stipitate at the base, smooth, straw color, obovoid, 
with a short, dark brown, infundibular, subterminal style; 
anther upon a thick similarly brown colored filament, 0.5 
mm. long, basifixed, cordate, triangularly ovate, about 0.75 
mm. long; gall flowers upon a 1 mm. long pedicel; its 
perianth light straw color and finely woolly, 1.5 mm. long, 
narrow, rather soft in texture; insect ovary glazed, somewhat 
compressed, elliptic or obovate from a side view, 1 mm. long; 
its style nearly terminal, 0.5 mm. long, with a dark brown 
slightly thickened apex. 
Type specimen 9362, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. Only two or three trees 
. were noticed near rapids of the Batocan River towards the 
Batocan Falls. It somewhat resembles F. subulata Blm. which 
is reported by King to occur in the Philippines. Herbarium 
specimens are strikingly similar to F. confusa Elm. which 
is always a straggling shrub. 
IL UROSTIGMA. 
7. F. indica Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2; pt. 2, 1514 (in part) 
1762-3. 
Specimens 7529 and 7708, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, 
Province of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1906 and 1907 respectively- 
. 8. F. indica gelderi (Miq.) King in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. 
Cale. 1; 39, 1887. F. gelderi Mig. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. 
3; 216 and 287, 1863-9. 
Represented by 7723 and 8022, A. D. E. Elmer, Prov- 
ince of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. This variety has lar- 
ger elongated fruits than the more typical forms. 
9. F. similis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1, Suppl. 1; 
47, 1906. 
Specimen 7716, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province of 
Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. Type specimen, Forestry Bureau 
number 3013, collected by Mr. R. Meyer along the Lamao River, 
