DECEMBER 19, 1911] A Fascicite or Davao Fires 1233 
In nearly all cases I could safely decide with Angat as knowing 
the alpine flora best. Here I am tempted to intersperse something 
else than subject matter. During my first few weeks of explora- 
tion work in company with the old man, I flattered myself in 
having obtained such a trained and useful native. Some few 
years before he was the chief companion of Dr. Copeland and 
Maj. Mearns, and out in the field he would diligently look up 
into the trees, and as I thought he was searching for flowering 
or fruiting plants among the trees. But I soon found out that 
he was hunting for honey-bee trees! 
. In the naming of our figs I find the Bagobos applied numer- 
1 ous different names, but occasional two or three related 
species they would give the same name. Besides these minor 
incidents they called the following species *Cataupi"; F. villosa 
Blm., F. areolata Elm. and F. cataupi Elm. The following are 
known to them as **Magulipi"; F. caudatifolia Warb., F. celebica 
Blm., F. flavo-cortica Elm., F. inaequifolia Elm., F. confusa Elm. 
and F. microsphaera Warb. And the following are known 
as “Basicong”; F. nota (Blco. Merr., F. variegata Blm., F. 
cassidyana Elm., F. satterthwaitei Elm., F. sordidissima Elm., F. 
peabodyi Elm., F. cuernosensis Elm. and F. manilensis 
Warb. 
An analysis of these species will reveal the fact that to all 
the liana or lofty tree climbers they apply the name ‘“‘Cataupi.” 
All the sprawling, shrubby or subscandent species with 
small axillary fruits are called ‘“‘Magulipi.”” And most of the 
low trees with moderately large fruits upon ligneous branch- 
ed tubercles from stem and larger branches they know as 
“Basicong” except the last species mentioned. Curiously 
enough, these three larger groups named by them and the 
species they include, are the exact species which belong re- 
spectively to the sections Synoecia, Palaeomorphe and Covellia 
of Dr. King’s monograph of the Indo-Malayan Species of 
Ficus. This fact has led me to believe that there are ex- 
ternal characters of our Philippine species by which they can 
be naturally classified. First, I wish to produce the sections 
used by King. 
Group I.—Pseudo-hermaphrodite; male flower with one 
stamen and a rudimentary pistil; hermaphrodite flowers 
