NovEMBER 15, 1957] A FascICLE or Tayasas Fras 246 
13. F. malunuensis Warb. in Perkins Frag. Fl. Philip. 
196, 1905.—A round topped and widely spreading tree, 15 
m. high, with white moderately hard wood; bark thick, 
yellowish gray or mottled; ultimate branches crooked, rather 
thiek and gnarly, the younger apical portion pubescent but 
soon becoming suhglabrous. Leaves coriaceous, rotately spread- 
ing from the ends of the twigs, dark lucid green above, 
paler beneath, a trifle conduplicate on the upper side, gla- 
brous, margins entire or obscurely wavy toward the short 
bluntly acute apex, base rounded or with a very short sub- 
auriculately obtuse point or subcuneate in the smaller ones; 
the average blade 14 em. long and one half as wide across 
the middle; nerves prominent beneath, visible from the 
upper surface also, lateral nerves 5 to 7 on each side, the 
ends interarching, reticulations very faint; petiole stout, gla- 
brous, 2 to 3 cm. long, nearly 4 mm. thick, early falling, 
leaving large more or less raised scars; stipules 3 to 5 cm. 
long, papyraceous, brown, slenderly tapering from the base, 
glabrous; bud seales 1 cm. long, chartaceous, becoming gla- 
brous. 
Receptacles ascending, in the upper leaf axils, solitary 
or in pairs, subglobose, but usually a trifle thicker above 
the middle, 2 to 3 em. in diameter, yellowish green with 
numerous whitish spots, umbilicus small, more or less yel- 
lowish brown pubescent; peduncles 3 cm. long, stoat, soft 
brown pubescent, subpersistent, the distal end bearing 3 
bracts; the segments triangularly acute, densely pubescent, 
rigid, united at the base, about 5 mm. long; staminate flo- 
wers scattered above the middle of the syconium, about 4 
mm. long; pedicel 2.5 mm. long, rather thick and dark 
brown, the basal one half surrounded by a glabrous brown 
membranous sheath which usually terminates into 2 acum- 
inate segments; the true perianth similar in texture and 
color, 1.5 mm. long, subgamophyllus, enclosing the single 
stamen, ultimately separated into 2 to 3 very unequal seg- 
ments; filament maroon brown, 0.5 mm. long; anther about 
as long, subelliptic, ends roundly truncate; pistillate flowers 
upon a short pedicel surrounded by similar united bracts; 
ovary sessile, ellipsoid, 1.2 mm. long, 0.75 mm. thick, in- 
serted upon a thick dark brown lateral and basal caruncle; 
