524 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. II, Arr. 26 
and neutral flowers in another set. 3 
8. Synoecia. | 
BBB. Flowers unisexual; male and gall flowers in one 
set of receptacles, fertile femule flowers only in 
another set. 
C. Flowers monandrous. 
D. Unbranched palmlike shrubs. 
4. Pseudopalma. 
DD. Branched shrubs or trees. 
E. Receptacies axillary. 
5. Sycidium. 
EE.Receptacles mostly in fascicles from 
stem and branches. 
: : 6. Covellia. 
CC. Flowers di- rarely tri-androus. 
D. Receptacles mostly axillary. 
7. Eusyce. 
DD. Receptacles mostly in fascicles from stem 
and branches. 
8. Neomorphe. 
1. PALAEOMORPHE. 
Ficus pisifera Wall. Cat... 4504, 1828. 
Specimen 9491, A: D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 
1908. 
A sprawling shrub or subscandent in habit, tightly cleav- 
ing to its support. Figs small, in clusters of the leaf axils, 
turning yellowish and ultimately becoming soft and very 
dark wine red. F. celebica Mig. is very much like this 
species and what the distinctive characters are is not clear 
to me. ''Pilig" is the vernacular name. 
Ficus caudatifolia Warb. in Perkin’s Frag. Fl. Philip. 
194, 1905. 
Specimen 10104, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, May, 1908. 
Typical, rarein our locality in damp woods at 4000 feet. 
Much branched and scandent upon large tree trunks as high 
