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Receptacles normally 2, from the leaf axils, subtended 
by persistent bracts; peduncle 6 mm. long, erect when young, 
but finally reflexed between the stem and the leaf petiole; 
syconium shining smooth, purplish or wine color, bearing 
a few lighter colored lenticels, broadly rounded at the base, 
2.6 em. long, 1.5 em. thick, ellipsoid, not compressed nor 
twisted; the apex truncately conical, the upper one half 
of the fruit much thickened and hardened by coarse ir- 
regular vertical ridges which ultimately terminate into very 
thick and hard umbilical scales; flowers male and gall; 
staminate ones concealed by the inner umbilical scales; the 
perianth scales completely enveloping the 2 stamens, brown, 
oblong to subelliptic, obtuse, about 3 in number and much 
overlapping, 2 mm. long; anthers subsessile, oblong, 1.25 
mm. long, 0.75 mm. broad; gall flowers upon 1 mm. long 
stipe 4 mm. long, obovoid, nearly 2 mm, in diameter, 
brown, smooth, subtended by 3 to 5 unequal and irregularly 
shaped setose or acuminate 1 to 2 mm. long  perianth 
segments; style lateral. 0.5 mm. long, dark brown, shorter 
than the ovary; stigmatic portion nearly as long, thicker, 
lighter in color. 
Type specimen, 7342, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. When the Fascicle of East 
Leyte Figs was written the writer took for granted that 
7342 was F. pseudopalma Blco. but later observations in the 
field led me to believe there exists two species. For good 
reasons the Luzon plant can be accepted as typical of 
Blanco’s species. The Leyte species here segregated has 
stems and figs only one half as large; its fruits are not 
subcompressed nor twisted. Named in honor of the celebrated 
botanist, M. Blanco. 
URTICACEAE, 
Procris pseudostrigosa n. sp.—A laxly branched tree 
like shrub, 3 m. high; branches more or less flexible, brown, 
the ultimate ones full of sap. Leaves thin, chiefly at the 
ends of the twigs, flat, subopposed by rigid brown bracts, 
oblong to oblanceolate, margins entire, subinequilateral es- 
pecially toward the base, apex abruptly acute, base obtuse, 
14 cm long, 2.5 em. wide, strigosely marked but not 
