NovzwBrER 15, 1907] A FascicLg or TavaPas Firas 
Inirutescence upon slender woody branched tubercles, 8 
to 18 dm. long, the branches subpendulous, brown, glabrous, 
upon the lower portion of the stem; receptacles chiefly at 
the ends of the branchlets, in alternating clusters of 1 to 
3, subglobose, smooth or brown puberulous in the young 
State, averaging 2 cm. in diameter, usually spotted with 
yellowish white lenticels, erect when young, pendulous, soft 
and whitish when mature, the slightly raised umbilicus broad 
and truncate, sessile or more commonly with a distinct 
pedicel when young; peduncle about 2 cm. long, brown 
puberulous or subglabrous, flattened, tribracteate at the apex; 
flowers only gall and male in the same receptacle; the 
staminate clustered beneath the umbilical scales, 2 mm. 
long; the base subtended by a subgamophyllous perianth; the 
outer 2 to 3 perianth segments becoming free, oblong to obovate, 
membranous, brown, the inner segment closely enfolding 
the solitary stamen; filament 0.75 mm. long, glabrous; 
anther as long and nearly as broad, truncate or emarginate 
at both ends; young gall flowers sessile, compressed; the 
mature ones upon a thick 1.5 mm. long pedicel; the smooth 
ovary ellipsoid to subovoid, 1.5 mm. long, 1.25 mm. in 
diameter, smooth, dark brown, bearing a very blunt apiculate 
subterminal style, evidently without perianth, but the inner 
surface of the syconium is provided with brown ciliate hairs. 
Type specimen 7428, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1906; also 7604 and 9364, by the 
same collector and from the same locality. In low damp 
wooded ground or along streams in deep  ravines at the 
base of Mount Banahao at 750 meters. Quite a number of 
trees were seen in this region only. It has some affinities 
to F. barnesii Merr. 
VI. EUSYCE. 
35. F. ruficaulis Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. 17; 13, 1904. 
Specimens 7477 and 9373, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, 
Provinee of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1906 and 1907 respec- 
tively. Our material is typical and was collected in 
woods at 700 meters. 
36. F. odorata (Blco.) Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. 17; 15, 
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