259 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I, Arr. 14 
1904. F. hispida odorata. Bico: Fl. Filip. ed. 1; 686, 183: 
ed. 2; 476, 1845: ed. 3; 89, 1879. 
Specimen 9368, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province of 
Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. This species was not found 
to be endemic in the woods of our region. The fact that it 
is quite common in the town of Lucban and that it serves 
an economie purpose leads me to believe that it has been 
introduced. Just before festive times its foliage is exten- 
sively collected for cleaning purposes. No fruits were found. 
31. F. propinqua Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. 29; 9, 1905.— 
A tall and straggling climber, forming tangled bushes upon 
trees in forests at 800 meters of Mount Banahao; stems 
and branches crookedly branched, rigid and more or less 
twisted; tough and hard wood covered with gray and brown 
mottled bark. Leaves also rigid, smooth, shining green on 
upper surface, recurved especially toward the tips. Figs as- 
cending, in axils of the leaves or in the axils of fallen 
leaves, 1 to 3-clustered, orange red, but becoming soft and 
turning to a dark wine coior when ready to drop. 
Specimens 7437 and 9369, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, 
Province of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1906 and 1907 respec- 
tively. 
38. F. gigantifolia Merr, in Govt. Lab. Publ. 29; 9, 
1905.—Small tree, 7 m. high, with very soft white wood; 
bark smoothish, conspicuously mottled; branches long, widely 
spreading, sparingly rebranched; the ends of the twigs smooth, 
soft and suberect, 8 mm. thiek. Leaves alternate, few, chiefly 
at the ends of thetwigs, horizontally spreading or descending, 
flat, coriaceous, lucid deep green above, much paler beneath, 
glabrous, early falling, leaving large subrotund scars beneath 
the consipicuous rings of the twigs, drying brown, medium 
sized blades 3 dm. long, 2 dm. wide, ovately rotund, edges 
entire, bases broadly rotund or shallowly cordate, bluntly 
obtuse at the apex; petiole 3 to 4 em. long, thick, smooth, 
glabrous; primary nerves 9 to 13 pairs, divaricate from the 
midvein, ascendingly curved above the middle, their ends 
strongly interarching, reticulations and secondary nerves quite 
evident; bud scales glabrous, strongly conduplicate, 12 mm. 
wide at the base, gradually tapering to a setaceous point. 
