DECEMBER 19, 1911] A FascicLE or Davao Fics 1241 
In wet, deeply shaded places along the Baruring river 
at 3000 feet altitude. ''Magulipid" is the vernacular name 
given it by the Bagobos. 
Dr. Copeland collected it three times in this locality and 
all of his specimens are exactly like mine. Forestry Bureau 
number 9323 from port Banga, district of Zamboanga, comes 
nearer the description. Not known from other localities. 
Ficus caudatifolia Warb. 
Field-note for 11239:—A straggling climber; stem 6 inches 
thick, reaching 25 feet in length, branched all along; branchlets 
divaricately spreading, ultimately numerously and laxly re- 
branched, its twigs reclining or subpendant; bark smooth, mot- 
tled; wood rather tough, odorless, whitish, with a faint sweet 
taste; leaves chartaceous, descending, flat but with apices re- 
curved, smooth and sublucid above, slightly rough beneath; 
figs axillary, solitary or in pairs, pendulous from the whitish 
slender peduncles, when immature greenish white and with nu- 
merous milk spots, flatly globose, 0.5 inch thick, harsh, occa- 
sionally beset with vestiges of bracts as are also the peduncles 
especially so at the base, red and smoother when ripe. 
Represented by numbers 11239 and 10486, Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), Mindanao, May and July, 1909. 
Gathered in good soil of humid forests at 3500 feet. A 
wouldbe strangler but without the cleaving power. A very 
characteristic species scattered throughout the eastern or Pacific 
coast portion of our archipelago. Number 11239 the Bagobos 
call *Magamomos" and number 10486 they call ‘“Magulepit.” 
Ficus flavo-cortica Elm. n. sp. 
A low spreading tree; trunk 15 m. high, nearly 5 dm. thick, 
terete; main branches toward the top, widely spreading and 
rather numerously rebranched, the ultimate ones lax and more 
or less drooping; old bark brown, on the branches grayish mot- 
tled; wood light, whitish, strongly ringed, without odor or 
taste; twigs refous pubescent especially dense toward the tips; 
bark beneath flavus. Leaves sessile or upon very short brown 
pubescent petioles, chartaceous, flat, horizontally spreading or 
