DECEMBER 19, 1911] A FascictE oF Davao Fics 124¢ 
Ficus altissima Blm. 
Represented by number 11971, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, October, 1909. 
Tall tree, collected in deep forests along the coast toward 
Digos. 
A good match of Blume’s species. Typical specimens are 
rarely collected and so far known only on the southeastern Pa- 
cific coast portion of the Philippines. 
Ficus indica Linn. Urostigma tsjela Mig. in Lond. Journ. 
VI; 580. 
Field-note:—A 60 feet high tree with a 3.5 feet thick stem; 
main branches from above the middle, widely spreading, ulti- 
mately numerously rebranched, the twigs quite lax; wood white, 
coarsely grained, soft, odorless and tasteless; bark mottled, 
lenticelled, containing latex; leaves ascending or horizontal to 
descending, coriaceous, flat, with recurved tips, deep green and 
somewhat shining on the upper side, much lighter green beneath; 
figs solitary or in pairs from the leaf axils, dark brick red, with 
greenish yellow spots. 
Represented by number 11612, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, September, 1909. 
Gathered in fertile soil of woods at 3500 feet of mount Ca- 
lelan. The Bagobos call it ‘“‘Marobutim.” 
Ficus hallieri Merr. 
Field-note:— Tall tree; stem 4 feet thick, 75 feet high, at 
the middle divided into main ascending branches; wood white, 
soft, conspicuously ringed, odorless and tasteless; bark smooth, 
elegantly mottled; branches ultimately numerously rebranched 
and widely scattered; leaves descending, smooth on both sides, 
dark green on the upper conduplicate surface, with recurved 
tips, much paler beneath, the main nerves yellowish green, with 
brown sides; figs usually in pairs from the leaf axils, upon a 0.75 
inch long triangularly thick peduncle which in the early state is 
strictly ascending and subtended by brown deciduous bracts, 
yellowish green and with numerous milk spots of irregular sizes, 
subtended by 3 similarly colored bracts, subglobose, 1 inch in 
diameter, the nearly closed umbilicus somewhat raised. 
