PLANTS FROM BATANES AND BABUYANES ISLANDS. 403 
tomosantibus ; receptaculis axillaribus, solitariis vel binis, pedunculatis, 
subglobosis, rubris, glabris, 1 ad 1.3 cm diametro, basi 3-bracteolatis ; 
pedunfculis 1 ad 2 cm longis, pubescentibus. 
A prostrate shrub spreading over the ground and rocks. Branches 
terete, glabrous, reddish-gray, the branchlets rather thick, reddish-brown, 
somewhat ferruginous-hirsute. Leaves suborbicular to elliptical, 5 to 
12 cm long, 4.5 to 8 cm wide, subcoriaceous, brownish when dry, 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 midrib, prominent, distant, spreading, anastomosing 
into an arched marginal nerve, the reticulations rather close, distinct; 
petioles 0.5 to 2 cm long, ferruginous-pubescent. Receptacles axillary, 
solitary or in pairs, male and gall flowers in one set, fertile female flowers 
only in other sets, subglobose, glabrous, dark-red when mature, 1 to 1.3 
cm in diameter, the peduncles 1 to 2 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 bracteole similar to the perianth segments; stamens usually 
2, rarely 3, or even 4, the anthers 1 .2 mm long. Gall flowers in the 
same receptacle, the perianth and bracteole as in the male flowers, the 
ovary ovoid, 1.2 mm long. Fertile female flowers in separate receptacles, 
the perianth small, the ovary 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 M earns. Babuyan, 
3895 Fenix. N. v., Tapd. 
A species well characterized by its smooth elliptical or suborbicular leaves, 
distant nerves and pedicelled receptacles. 
F. not a (Blanco) Merr. 
Camiguin, JiOI 'i Fenix. 
One of the most common and widely distributed species of the genus in the 
Philippines; endemic. 
F. ph il ippinensis Miq. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3605, 3783 Fenix j 3783 Mea/rns. N. v., Nusu. 
A widely distributed endemic species of doubtful status. 
The validity of this species is doubtful, King reducing it to F. decaisneana 
Miq., while Hemsley is of the opinion that it is identical with F. gihhosa Bl. 
( F . insularis Miq.) Elmer has recently described it again as F. confusa. 
F. ulmifolia Lam. Encycl. 2 (1790) 499. 
F. sinuosa Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 7 (1848) 232. 
Camiguin, IiOIO Fenix. Babuyan, 3919 Fenix. Batan, Santo Domingo de 
Basco, 3579 Fenix. N. v., Yaysi. 
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. sinuosa Miq., based on Cuming 1921, and var. integi-ifolia Miq., 
based on Cuming 1921/., both from the Philippines, are manifestly one species, and 
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