253 — LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. I, ART. 14 
cending, anastamosingly united at their ends, reticulations 
brown, also conspicuous; petiole straight, glabrous, rather 
slender, from 1 to 5 cm. in length; bud scales 1 cm. long, 
subglabrous, sharply and triangularly acuminate. 
Receptacles chiefly in pairs from the axils of fallen 
leaves, subglobose to obovoid or more or less irregular in 
shape, at least 1 cm. in diameter, yellowish red when ripe, 
with lighter yellow spots; annulus of the ambilicus quite 
conspicuous; peduncles 5 mm. long, subglabrous, terminated 
by 3 obtusely rounded dark brown glabrous bracts; flowers 
fertile female and neuter apparently; the neutral flowers or 
the dwarfed fertile female flowers confined immediately ben- 
eath the umbilical scales, considerably shorter than the scales 
circling around the upper side and the pistillate flowers 
forming the lower border, quite numerous and closely set, 
2 mm. long, with a 0.5 mm. long pedicel; the perianth seg- 
ments glabrous, brown, usually 5 in number, the outer ones 
1.5 mm. long, the inner ones smaller, apparently all free, 
oblong, strongly imbricated and more or less clavate or 
columnar in appearance; fertile female flowers both subses- 
sile and slenderly stipitate, the longer stipes 2 mm. long; 
perianth brown, very unequal in length, glabrous, the longer 
ones 2 mm. long, the basal portion at first united but finally 
becoming free; the ovary compressed, subrugose, light straw 
color, the marginal ridge confluent and attenuate at the 
base, nearly 2 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, broadly rounded 
at the apex; style lateral, ascendingly curved, terminated 
by a darker colored stigma; syconium densely hairy at least 
in the region of the neutral flowers. 
Type specimen 7895, A4. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907; also 7479, from the same 
locality. Of this rare species only two trees were discovered 
in rather dry woods on Mount Banahao at 825 meters, 
Both trees bore an abundance of fruit, so much that the 
twigs immediately beneath the foliage were entirely concealed. 
Without staminate flowers there still remains some doubt 
as to the proper section. Apparently it is nearest related 
to F. blepharostoma Warb. of the Sycidiwm section. Our 
specimen has longer petioles, leaves not  ovately oblong, 
without subeordate bases, the margins not remotely dentate, 
