Decemper 23, 1908] A FasctcLE or Sours Nuaros Fias 517 
Ficus paloensis Elm. n. comb. F. ruficaulis paloense 
Elm. Leaf. Philip. Bot. 1; 203, 1906. 
Specimen 9831, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, April, 1908. 
Old tree, 10 m. high; stems 5 dm. thick, soon branching 
into main branches; ultimate branches few, thick, reclin- 
ing and with suberect tips, often quite long; crown broad- 
ly umbrella shaped. Leaves strongly conduplicate on 
the upper surface which is lucid green, subcoriaceous or 
rather chartaceous; wood white, moderately soft, odorless; 
bark grayish white mottled, reddish brown on the twigs. 
Figs solitary or in pairs from the lower leaf axils, pendu- 
lous, obovoid, broadly elliptic to fusiform or pyriform, dull 
lemon yellow when fully mature, the larger ones 5 cm. 
long and similarly tapering toward both ends, with conical 
umbilicus, upon short thick green peduncles. 
In light woods of the dry ridges at 2500 feet. Easily 
recognized in the field from F. ruficaulis Merr. by the much 
larger and differently shaped fruits and also by leaf char- 
acters. 
Ficus puncticulata Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3, Sect. 
C; 181, 1908. xs 
Specimen 9689, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, April, 1908. 
A lofty tree climber on ridges at 3500 feet; stems flex- 
ible, 3 em. thick, frequently flattened and obscurely grooved 
on the sides; bark: brown and gray mottled, minutely lenti- 
celled. Leaves chartaceous, dull green, paler beneath, erect 
from the brown comparatively thick petioles, but otherwise 
strongly recurved. Figs dirty yellowish or greenish yellow, _ 
subglobose, both ends similarly flattened, densely covered | 
with minute lighter yellow colored lenticels; umbilicus mi- - 
nute, sunken, annular. "''Pili- na-balagon" | is the Visayan 
name and means a climbing fig. 
Our specimen differs from F. scandens Rorb. by the glab- E 
rous subsessile fruits. How they compare with F. hederacea — — 
and F, fruticosa of the same author is not yet clear, but 
from King’s discussion it is apparent that the latter has a - 
different habit, and, being depicted as diandrous, belongsto 
