LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. Hl. Manila, P. I., December 23, 1908. Art. 26. 
A FASCICLE OF SOUTH NEGROS FIGS 
BY 
A. D. E. ELMER. 
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The following thirty four species and one variety of 
figs were collected in the Cuernos mountains, province of 
Negros Oriental, from March to June of 1908. The base 
for my camp work was made in a small settlement official- 
ly called Luzuriaga (formerly Valencia), a distance of about 
four or five miles westward from the beautiful little sea- 
coast town of Dumaguete. In this collection of figs are five 
new species, only two, however, are here collected for the 
first time. One new variety is described and another varietal 
name is raised to specific rank. All except one seacoast 
species were collected within the altitudinal range from 1000 
feet to the summit of the highest peak, or a few hundred 
over 6000 feet. From this altitude one can look over the 
furtherinterior mountainous sections extending to the northwest, 
the Sulu sea lying stretched before the observer to the west, the 
waters around the southern point of the island and up toward 
Dumaguete which lies almost due east from this group of moun- 
tains. On clear days the Malindang mountains of northwestern 
Mindanao are plainly in sight. Looking west over the northern 
portion of Siquijor island one occasionally sees the three peaks - 
or voleanoeson Camiguin island. In the direction of Cebu the 
