249 ns LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [ VoL. I, ART. 14 
16. F.apiocarpa Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. 5; 269 
and 289, 1863-9. Urostigma apiocarpa Mig. |. c. 440.—A 
subscandent shrub, or suberect and tree like, 4 m. high; 
wood tough and hard, covered with smooth light gray bark; 
branchlets thick, rigid. Leaves scattered, alternate, also 
rigid, flat, ovately oblong, dark shining green above, tas- 
sellate beneath or brownly spotted with dirty white reticu- 
late borders, glabrous, the average blade 16 cm. long and 
9 cm. wide just below the middle, margins entire, subin- 
volute, apex abruptly acuminate, base broadly rounded; mid- 
vein and lateral nerves prominent beneath, 4 to 6 pairs, 
submarginally united, the basal pair much ascending, the 
secondary ones frequently quite evident; petiole 3 to 5 em. 
long, stout, very thick, reddish brown when not covered 
with lighter brown scales, in drying separating from the 
stems; bud scale 1.5 em. long, subglabrous, sharply acuminate, 
convolute, dark brown. 
Receptacles usually solitary from the leaf axils, 3 to 4 
em. long, ellipsoid, equally rounded at both ends, hard, 
greenish and smooth, with a milky white very thick and 
gummy juice, umbilicus simply apiculate, upon a 1.5 cm. 
long pulverulent recurved peduncle; the 3 lobed bracts at 
the base united and enclosing the base of the peduncle» 
about 5 mm. long; gall flowers 5 mm. long; the pedicel slender, 
2 mm. long, glabrous, brown; the perianth of 3 brown linear 
or ligulate 3 mm. long segments, deciduous; smooth ovary 
2 mm. long, 1 mm. thick, ellipsoid, upon a slender 1 mm. 
long pedicel; style subterminal, 1 to 2 mm. long, slender; 
staminate flower nearly 4 mm. long, glabrous, the thick 
brown pedicel about 1 mm. long; filament very similar, 
easily detached, but not as long and usually crooked; per- 
ianth of 3 brown and brittle segments, linear, setaceously 
acuminate, 1.5 mm. long; anther at most 2 mm. long, 1.25 
mm. broad, curved, light yellow. 
Specimen 7445, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province of 
Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1906. Only one plant was discovered in 
damp woods near the base of Mount Banahao at 700 meters. 
Except for the shorter peduncles, fewer nerved leaves and : 
the shape of the receptacle it is typical of the species rep- 
orted to be common in the Malayan Peninsula and Archip- 
elago. Not previously reported írom the Philippines. 
