NovEMBER 15, 1907] A FascicLE or TavaBas Fics 252 
nearly as prominent, all hispidly puberulous; petiole 5 mm. 
long, hispid, terete, 2 mm. thick. 
Receptacles short pedunculate, 1 to 3-clustered in the 
leaf axils, globose, hard and scabrous, ultimately becoming 
soft, smooth and purplish; flowers only male and gall in 
the same receptacle; staminate flowers 4 mm. long, circling 
beneath the umbilical scales, upon thick spongy 1 mm. 
long pedicel; its perianth hyaline, at most 3 mm. in length, 
of about 5 unequal segments enclosing the single stamen; 
filament 0.5 mm. long, with a 1 mm. long much reduced 
pistil diverging from its base; anther 1.25 mm. long, about 1 
mm. wide, truncate at both ends or narrowertowards the 
apex; gall flowers mostly empty, upon glabrous 5 mm, 
long and 2 mm. thick spongy pedicels or the younger 
ones subsessile; the perianth segments free, linear ligulate 
or oblanceolate, very hyaline, 3 mm. long; ovary sessile, 
nearly 2 mm. long, a trifle less in diameter, ellipsoid, smooth, 
yellowish brown, much exceeded by the perianth segments; 
style sublateral, erect, 1 mm. in length, subclavate. 
Specimen 7447, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. The vestige of a rudi- 
mentary pistil in the staminate flowers of our specimens 
indicates a relation to the section Palaeomorphe. Along 
streamlets and irrigation ditches of rather open places. It 
is not identical with the previous species nor is it the same 
as my number 7179 from the Island of Leyte. 
26. F. banahaensis n. sp.—Tree, 15 m. high, with a 
4 dm. thick trunk; wood white, soft; branches rather nu- 
merous, forming a round topped crown; bark brown or gray- 
ish mottled, roughened with numerous lenticels; the young 
terminal portion of the twigs brown, glabrous, quite soft 
and watery. Leaves terminally clustered, alternating and 
closely crowded, oblong to subelliptie, obtusely rounded at 
both ends, apex abruptly acuminate and usually recurved, 
margins entire or obscurely wavy toward the apex, medium 
sized blades 13 cm. long, 5 cm. wide across the middle, fat, 
submembranous, glabrous, yellowish green beneath at least 
in the dry state, occasionally a trifle inequilateral; nerves 
conspicuous beneath, 3 to 5 pairs, the basal pair much as- 
