192 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE Botany [Vor. I, Arr. 8 
erulous. Leaves dry, brittle and subcoriaceous, scattered, 
dark green on upper side, paler beneath, scabrous on both 
surfaces, slightly inequilateral toward the base, 3 cm. wide, 
10 em. long, oblong, apex acute, base attenuate, margins 
entire; lateral nerves 5 to 7 pairs including the prominent 
basal pair; bud scales 6 mm. long, narrowly acuminate, sca- 
brous; petiole also scabrous, 7 mm. long. Receptacles from 1 to 
3 in the axils of leaves or in the axils of fallen leaves, 
globose, scabrous, 5 to 8 mm. in diameter, upon short tri- 
bracteate peduncles, soft and yellow when mature. Flowers 
male and gall only. 
The much larger coarsely toothed leaves of F. asperior 
Miq. distinguishes it at once from our species. Specimen 
7178, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of Leyte, Leyte, 
January, 1906. 
9. F. quercifolia humilis (Roxb.) King Ann. Roy. 
Bot. Gard. Cale. 1; 78, 1887.—Shrub 3 m. high. Leaves dry, 
brittle, very rough, used by the Visayans for polishing 
purposes. Figs scabrous, axillary, yellowish, or when soft 
purplish. 
Doubtfully referred here since it is very variable and 
consequently many specific names have been proposed for 
different forms. Specimen 7179, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Prov- 
ince of Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. 
10. F. manilense Warb. in Frag. Fl. Philip. 3; 199, 
1905. F. rudis arborea Elm. Leaf. Philip. Bot. 1; 54, 1906.— 
An S8 m. high widely spreading tree; older bark finely 
checked, that on the branchlets gray. Leaves chiefly along 
the ends of the twigs, chartaceous, obovate to obovate oblong, 
apex abruptly short acuminate or slenderly cuspidate, dark 
green above, paler beneath, base rotund or narrowly semi- 
cordate or simply auriculate, edges entire or finely dentate 
and more or less involute, pubescent on the prominent 
nerves beneath. Receptacles hispidulous when young, ulti- 
mately glabrate, in small clusters of the fallen leaf axils 
along the slender branches below the leaves, 7 mm. in 
diameter, nearly globose with a compressed apex, wine color 
when fully mature, soft and juicy, quite palatable. Only 
one tree observed on a wooded dry hillside at 150 meters. 
