NovEMBER 15, 1907] A FascICLE or TavanBas FIGs 260 
Receptacles immature, shining green, normally from the 
leaf axils, sessile, subglobose, subtended by 3 acuminate bracts. 
Represented by 9360, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. It was found on dry 
gravelly ridges near the Mahapon River in the vicinity of 
Sampaloc. Our material is typical and aside from type 
specimen from the Island of Burias, it is the only true 
F. gigantifolia Merr. known. 
VII. NEOMORPHE. 
39. F. latsoni Elm. Leaf. Philip. Bot. 1; 204, 1906. 
Specimen 7432, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province of 
Tayabas, Luzon, May,1906. Quite rare. 
40. F. integrifolia Elm. Leaf. Philip. Bot. 1; 61, 1906. 
Specimen 7920, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province of 
Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. In woods of low damp ground. 
Its range extends from Bataan Province and throughout 
middle northern Luzon. It is more abundant, however, in 
the mountainous districts of the northern provinces and 
apparently ‘is quite variable as to size, texture of its foliage, 
and has either glabrous or slightly pubescent leaves and 
receptacles. 
4l. F, glomerata Roxb. Cerom. Pl. 2; No. 123, 1795 
to 1819.— Tall widely spreading tree, 20 m. high, with short 
1.5 m. thick stems which soon divide into large main 
branches; wood soft, whitish; bark thick, reddish except the 
rather smooth grayish white or mottled outer surface; ul- 
timate branches slender, lax, divaricately branched, the 
younger portions glabrous. Leaves submembranous, drying 
brown, smooth, dark green on the upper surface, quite a 
little paler beneath, nearly flat, very variable in size, al- 
ternatingly scattered along the young twigs, ovately lan- 
ceolate to narrowly oblong, apex acute to subacuminate, base 
broadly rounded, margins entire, glabrous, the larger blades 
15 em. long and 5 em. wide; lateral veins 8 to 11 pairs, 
brown, conspicuous beneath, retieulations faint and minute; 
petiole glabrous, 1 to 4 em. long, slender; bud scales brown, 
1 em. long, sharply acuminate, the middle outer portion 
short canescent. 
