PLAXTH FROM BATANKS A.NI) P.ALU'YAXES ISLANDS. 403 



tomosantibus ; receptaeiilis axillaribus, solitariis vel hinis, pedunculatis, 

 subgiobosis, rubris, giabris, 1 ad 1.3 cm diauietro, basi 3-bracteolatis ; 

 pedimculis 1 ad 3 cm longis, pubescentibus. 



A ^irostrate shrub spreading over the ground and rocks. Branches 

 terete, glabrous, reddish-gray, the branchlets rather thick, reddisli-l^rown, 

 somewhat ferruginous-hirsute. Leaves suborljicular to elliptical, 5 to 

 13 cm long, 4.5 to 8 cm wide, subcoriaceous, brownish when diy, entire, 

 smooth, slightly shining above, base and apex broadly rounded, the 

 former, in young leaves, slightly subpeltate and very obscurely cordate, 

 glabrous, or with very few hairs along the midrib beneath; nerves about 

 6 on each side of the midril), prominent, distant, spreading, anastomosing 

 into an arched marginal nerve, the reticulations rather close, distinct; 

 petioles 0.5 to 3 cm long, ferruginous-pubescent. Eeceptacles axillary, 

 solitary or in pairs, male and gall flowers in one set, fertile female flowers 

 only in other sets, sul^globose, glaln'ous, dark-red when mature, 1 to 1.3 

 cm in diameter, the peduncles 1 to 3 cm long, pubescent, the apex, just 

 below the receptacle, with three small bracts. Staminate flowers pedi- 

 celled, the perianth segments 4, dark-purplish, 1 mm long, the pedicel 

 with a single l)racteole similar to the perianth segments; stamens usually 

 3, rarely 3, or even 4, the anthers 1.3 mm long. Clall flov/ers in the 

 same receptacle, the perianth and bracteole as in the male flowers, the 

 ovary ovoid, 1.3 mm long. Fertile female flowers in separate receptacles, 

 the perianth small, the ovaiw ovoid, 1.5 mm in diameter, the interior 

 wall of the receptacle with numerous triangular-ovate, dark-purple scales. 



Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3573 Fenix (type), 3232 Mcarns. Babuyan, 

 3895 Fenix. N. v., Tapd. 



A species well characterized l)y its smooth elli))tical or siiborbicular leaves, 

 distant nerves and pedicelled receptacles. 



F. nota (Blanco) IMerr. 

 C'amiguix, .'/Ol'i Fenix. 



One of the nios^ common and widely distributed species of the genus in the 

 Piiilippines; endemic. 



F. ph ilippinensis Miq. 



Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 360.5, 3783 Fenix ; .3783 Mearns. N. v., Xiisu. 



A widely distributed endemic species of doubtful status. 



Tlie validity of this species is doubtful. King reducing it to F. deeaisneana 

 ^liq.. while Hemsley is of the opinion that it is identical with F. (jihbosa Bl. 

 (/''. insiilaris ]\liq.) Elmer lias recently described it again as F. eonftisa. 



F. ulmifolia Lam. Encycl. 2 (1790) 499. 



/•'. sinuosa Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 7 (1848) 232. 



(AMKiiix, .'lOlO Fenix. Babuyax. 39 If) Fenix. Batan, Santo Domingo de 

 Basco, .^579 Fenix. N. v., Yai/si. 



The earliest description of this form is that of Lamarck, F. ulmifolia Lam. 



being based on Philippine material. The species was considered as a doubtful one 



by Miquel. F. sinuo.sa ^liq., based on Cuming 1921, and var. integrifolia ^liq,, 



based on Cuming 192'/. both from the Philippines, are manifestly one species, and 



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