LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. I. Manila, P. I., December 10, I9O6. Art. 8. 
A FASCICLE OF EAST LEYTE FIGS 
BY 
A. D. E. ELMER. 
DART, T 
I. PALAEOMORPHE. 
Male flowers with 1 stamen and a rudimentary pistil 
occupying the same receptacles as the gall flowers; fertile 
female flowers alone in another set of receptacles; perianth 
of fertile females usually gamophyllous, 4 to 5-cleft, rarely 
of separate pieces; small trees, erect or subscandent shrubs. 
1. F. pisifera Wall. Cat. 4504, 1828.—A small tree 
like shrub, 4 m. high; branches widely spreading, with a 
peculiar yellowish smooth bark; the subglobose figs are sub- 
sessile or only very short pedunculate, about the size of a 
cranberry, yellowish red when mature, in small clusters in 
the axils of the fallen leaves. 
Here in the Philippines it has been confused with F. 
celebica Miq. from which it differs externally in its less 
pubescent, not acuminate and more coriaceous leaves. The 
writer collected it several times in different provinces and 
always found it in the woods along water courses especially 
on cliffs or upon shelving rocks. Specimen 7372, A. D. E. 
Elmer, Palo, Province of Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. 
2. F. confusa Elm. Leaf. Philip. Bot. 1; 47, 1906.—A 
tough and numerously branched shrub, straggling or often sub- 
