DECEMBER 19, 1911] A Fascicle or Davao Figs 1239 
moments they would keep the wood on either side between their 
upper teeth and upper lip, giving the lip a swollen or punched up 
appearance. Usually, however, they take several chews a day, 
and the more rushing the work is the oftener they will want to 
take chews. 
The study of Davao figs disclosed a strong Pacific coast dis- 
tribution northward through eastern Luzon. This is corroborated 
by other groups as well. Examples of these are F. caudatifolia 
Warb., F. banahaensis Elm., F. inaequifolia Elm., F. lucbanensis 
Elm., F. altissima Blm. and F. cassidyana Elm. Such as the first 
ones mentioned are found more interiorly upon high mountains 
yet where they have the influence of the Pacific ocean. 
List of the species. 
Ficus confusa Elm. 
Field-note:—A tree climber; stem 1 to 2 inches thick, sub- 
erect, laxly rebranched and forming hanging masses from the 
tree trunks; bark smooth and yellowish gray on the twigs; wood 
moderately soft, yellowish, porous, a trifle fetid and bitter; leaves 
descending, nearly flat, tips slightly recurved, chartaceous, 
deeper green above; figs hard, smooth, yellowish green, with 
some milk spots, solitary or 3 or even 5-clustered in the leaf axils, 
0.33 inch in diameter, very similar in appearance to green coffee 
berries, the umbilicus reddish. | 
Represented by number 10501, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, May, 1909. 
Collected in humid woods at 4000 feet. In the Bagobo 
dialect it is called ‘‘Magulipid.” 
F. subulata Blm. is very similar. 
Ficus celebica Blm. 
Field-note:—Subepiphytic upon or about the basal portion 
of other trees; stem 3 inches thick, its branches numerous and 
laxly spreading; wood quite hard, white, odorless and tasteless, 
rather heavy; bark smooth, yellowish gray; leaves chartaceous, 
only the tips recurved, dull green above, paler beneath, its veins 
dull yellow, the margins usually somewhat recurved; figs clustered 
