542 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [ VoL. ll, Art. 26 
Ficus benguetensis negrosensis Elm. n. var. 
Tree, 8 m. high or less, with straight 2 dm. thick 
stems; wood whitish, very soft, covered with brown more 
or less lentieelled bark; branches divaricate, quite slender. 
Leaves alternate along the terminal portion of the branchlets, 
submembranous, flat, horizontally spreading, oblong, nearly 
2 dm. long, 8 em. wide across the middle, apex gradually 
acute, entire, or obscurely undulate toward the apex, 
glabrous on both sides, beneath finely sprinkled with white 
dots, base rounded or obtuse; petiole 2 to 8 cm. long, at 
first like the younger portion of the twigs yellowish brown 
pubescent but soon wearing glabrous; nerves drying brown, 
ascendingly curved, 5 to 7 lateral pairs, the tips more or less 
distinctly united, prominent beneath, cross bars comparatively 
prominent, reticulations obscure; bud scale 2 cm. long, acu- 
minate, short yellowish pubescent on the back, outer margins 
and ventral side glabrous. 
Receptacles subsessile, solitary or in pairs from the leaf 
axils, reddish and shining when mature except the lenticels, 
occasionally bracteate, usually obovoid in shape, 1.5 cm. long, 
subsessile, subtended by 8 rather rigid involucral bracts, 
very rugose in the dry state; umbilicus quite prominent; 
flowers only fertile female; pedicel 1.5 mm. long; gamophyllus 
perianth equalling the pedicel, obliquely truncate; ovary 
obovoid, 1 mm. thick; style subterminal, 1.5 mm. long at 
most, glabrous or provided with a few short scattering hairs 
toward the stigma. 
Type specimen 9730, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, April, 1908. 
Erect tree in the shallow wooded crater of the summit. 
Differs from typical speeimens in the larger membranous 
leaves, much longer petioles; figs subsessile, solitary or in 
pairs from the leaf axils, very rugose when dry. This con- 
dition of the dry fruits is the same as in F. cuernosensis 
Elm., and the florets are very similar also. There is still 
another small leaved form with long pedunculate fruits in 
the high mountains of middle northern Luzon. (See Fores- 
try Bureau record 5007, collected by H. M. Curran, on mount 
Tonglon, province of Benguet; and 5744, collected by W. Klemme, 
. district of Lepanto. Judging by leaves alone it is very dif- 
