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Mount Mariveles, Province of Bataan, Luzon. Sr. S. Garcia 
collected several specimens of it in 1902 at Baler, Province 
of Principe, Luzon. Dr. H. Hallier secured it also from San 
Ramon, Province of Zamboanga, Mindanao, in 1904. 
10. F. longipedunculata (Merr.) Eim. Leaf. Philip. 
Bot. 1; 50, 1906. F. chrysolepis longipedunculata Merr. in Govt. 
Lab. Publ. 29; 11, 1905. 
Specimens 9365 and 7739, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Prov- 
ince of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. Large spreading trees 
in woodlands at 700 meters. So far it has previously only 
been collected in subalpine regions of Benguet and Bataan 
provinces of Luzon. 
11. F. caulocarpa Miq. Urostigma caulocarpum Mig. in 
Lond, Journ. Bot. 6; 568, 1848. F. caulocarpa Mig. in Ann. 
Mus. Lugd. Bat. 3; 235 and 297, 1863-9.—Small tree, 6 m. high, 
with white soft wood; bark smooth, grayish white, when old 
checked, dotted with transverse lenticels; ultimate branches 
rigid, crookedly rebranched, but not numerous. Leaves always 
clustered toward the ends of the twigs, ascending, shining, smooth, 
coriaceous, strongly conduplicate on the upper side and with 
recurved tips, oblong, equally rounded at both ends, at the 
apex abruptly terminated into a stout point, margins entire, 
the average blade 12 cm. long and 5 em. wide across the 
middle; petioles glabrous, stout, 3 to 6 cm. long, strict, 
green except the thickened brown basal portion; nerves 7 
to 9 pairs, straight, more conspicuous beneath, oblique, the 
basal pair much ascending, faintly interarching 3 mm. from 
the margin, reticulations obscure, the midnerve stout and 
very prominent beneath; bud scales triangularly acuminate, 
1 em. long; stipules caducous, very numerous when leaves 
are young, unequal, the larger ones 1 dm. long and 1.5 
cm. wide, linear, soft, very membranous, ferruginous brown. 
Receptacles in small clusters along the branchiets or 
occasionally in the lower leaf axils, glabrous, globose or 
obscurely obovoid and with a conspicuous dark brown . 
umbilicus, pale creamy white when mature, less than 5 mm. 
in diameter, becoming granular when dry, upon a glabrous 
brown 3 mm. long peduncle; bracts brown, glabrous, persis- 
tent, spreading, the obtuse segments 1 mm. long, edges thin. 
