DeckmBErR 23, 1908] A. FascicLER or Souta Nxanos Fies 587 
spreading from the upper portion of the stem, the ultimate ones 
rather few and lax; wood moderately brittle, yellowish white, 
with conspicuous concentric rings; bark also brittle, brown and 
lenticelled, reddish on. the inside. Leaves flat but gracefully 
recurved and spreading, rather stiff, dark lucid green above, 
yellowish green beneath, easily breaking. Figs usually in 
pairs from the leaf axils, upon rusty green and usually 
recurved peduncles, the surface hard, smooth and rusty green, 
covered with minute yellowish white lenticels, globose, with 
a very conspicuous nipple-like umbilicus (reminding one of 
acorns), apparently turning yellowish when fully ripe. 
Otherwise only known from mount Mariveles, Luzon, and 
mount Pulgar, Palawan. In damp woods at 4000 feet. 
Known to the natives as ''Pili-ihalas." 
Ficus nervosa Hey. in Roth’s Nov. Spec. Pl. 888... o 
Specimen 10261, A4. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Provinee of Negros Oriental,. Negros, June, 1908. 
Tall tree with a long straight bole; stem 20. m. or longer; 
9 to 12 dm. in diameter, strongly buttressed, covered with 
thick gray brittle bark; branches forming, an, elongated crown, 
rather dense and crookedly rebranched. Leaves | chartaceous, 
flat, smooth and dull olive green on the upper side, lighter 
green beneath; ends of. twigs, bud scales, and, petioles covered 
with soft yellowish brown hairs and bieonina nearly glabrous. 
Figs in pairs from the leaf axils, recurved upon the green 
peduncles which are subtended by 3 short green bracts with 
brown margins, less than 1.5 cm. thick, usually somewbat 
obovoid, shining green, with here and there lighter green 
spots; umbilicus flat, green, minute; synconium thick, whitish 
on the inner side; florets deep red. 
In a deep canyon of the  Bonyao river at 2000 feet. 
A Malayan and Indian species not previously reported 
from our Archipelago. This same form has also been collected 
in central Mindanao, middle Luzon, and on Mindoro. 
Ficus saxophila Blm. Bijd. 437, 1825. ios c0» 
Specimen 9644, A. D. E. Eimer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, March, 
1908. a NES e SEL Pi a MEE 
