LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. IV. Manila, P. I., December 19, 1911. Art. 67. ju 
A FASCICLE OF DAVAO FIGS 
By 
A. D. E. Elmer 
In this fascicle forty four species of Ficus are enumerated, 
fourteen of which are in the following pages proposed as new. 
" There are two species belonging to the seetion Synoecia, two 
"d species of Neomorphe, four of Eusyce, six of Palaeomorphe, seven 
Covellia, eleven Sycidium and twelve species of Urostigma. Most 
of this material was collected in the woods and forests having an 
altitudinal range from 1500 to 4000 feet. Only two species, 
F. altissima Blm. from near Digos and F. palawanensis Merr. 
from near Daron were collected in the coastal plain. Compar- 
atively few were taken at 1500 feet elevation or along the upper 
limits of the cogon regions, while by far the most of them were 
gathered between 2500 feet and 3500 feet altitude. This only ' 
partly indicates the limits of my exploration, and no doubt there - 
are other species remaining in the plains about the plantations 
and in the wooded depressions along the water courses leading 
through the cogon formation up to 1500 feet altitude. Neither 
on mount Apo nor on mount Calelan have I noticed any species 
above 5000 feet. In middle northern Luzon they inhabit higher 
elevations. I failed to colleet along the coast sueh common 
species as F. heterocarpa Miq., F. ampelas Burm., F. pseudo- 
palma Blco., F. tinctoria Wall. and F.mindanaensis Warb. Again, 
Dr. Otto Warburg as well as Mr. R. S. Williams collected in this 
same general region some species which I did not secure. If, 
therefore, a careful search for figs would be made near the coastal 
