SZ 
4+- 
Type specimen, number 8010, was discovered in ravines 
and along the river at Sablan intermixed with other broad 
leaved trees. Here were a number of stately trees which 
were not observed in other localities. Nearest to F. indica 
Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2; 1514, 1762-3, but leaves not tuber- 
culate; mature receptacles not hard, always pedunculate; 
involucral bracts small; ripe fertile achenes not viscid nor 
tuberculate. 
HI. SYNOECIA. 
Flowers unisexual or neuter; male flowers with 1 stamen; 
male and gall flowers in one set of receptacles, fertile female 
and neuter flowers in another set, or the latter absent; 
climbers with large colored receptacles, the leaves tasselate 
beneath. 
12. F. megacarpa Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 17; 14, 1904. 
This species was first collected by P. T. Barnes at Lamao, 
Province of Bataan, Luzon. The leaves of the type 
specimens are coriaceous, ovate to elliptical ovate, only 
slightly inequilateral. Those of my specimen number 8011 
collected in the forests of Sablan are membranous, strongly 
inequilateral and from ovate to obovate lanceolate. These 
leaf differences are probably due to age. The fruits of my 
specimen are also more of the globose shape, dark purple 
when ripe and contain a very thick elastic substance. It 
is apparently not common and only occassionally met in 
woods of the hills and the intervening ravines. The young 
growing parts are profusely branched and tightly cleaving 
to trunks of trees. After having climbed a considerable 
distance the older stems become detached from the trunks 
and appear as guy ropes. From this liana the large heavy 
figs hang from short 6 cm. thick stalks. 
IV. SYCIDIUM. 
Flowers unisexual; male and gall flowers in one distinct 
set of receptacles; fertile female flowers in a distinct set of 
receptacles; male flower with 1 stamen, though sometimes 
with 2. Leaves alternate; receptacles small, axillary, more 
or less scabrous, a few have receptacles in fascicles from the 
stem; shrubs, small trees or climbers; rarely epiphytal. 
