DECEMBER 19, 1911] A FascrcLE or Davao Figs 1245 
Ficus retusa Linn. 
Field-note:—A strangling epiphyte, arising from the lower- 
most limbs of a large tree; branches widely spreading, quite rigid; 
the ultimate ones numerous, erect or nearly so, flexible; wood 
whitish, rather tough, without odor or taste; bark smooth, grayish 
white mottled; leaves rigidly coriaceous, ascending, deep dull 
green on the upper nearly flat surface, much lighter or yellowish 
green on the nether side; figs in pairs from the leaf axils, the sub- 
tending bracts also yellowish green, less than 0.5 inch long, obo- 
voidly ellipsoid, hard and dull red. 
Represented by number 11314, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Upon a large Castanopsis tree, in humid forest at 4000 feet, 
just south of the Sibulan river near the trail to camp Baclayan. 
Called by the Bagobos “Marobutam.”’ 
Not F. indica Linn. because leaves strongly trinerved and 
apices rounded, occasionally retuse. Dr. King describes F. retusa 
Linn. as a tree, but that may be so in old plants under certain 
conditions. 
Ficus umbrina Elm. 
Field-note:—A strangling climber upon or about large tree 
trunks; stem freely branched and forming a network about its 
host or support; main branches 20 to 30 feet long, divarieate, 
freely branched beyond the middle; twigs hanging, dense or nu- 
merous, flexible or very tough; bark smooth, mottled; wood soft, 
fibrous, odorless and with a slight sweet taste; leaves coriaceous, 
usually conduplicate on the upper very deep green surface, espe- 
cially so toward the recurved apex, the blades descending, upon 
ascending greenish brown petioles; figs in pairs from the leaf 
axils, without proper peduncles, subtended by bracts or at least 
vestiges of bracteoles, somewhat irregularly rounded, hard, dark 
creamy or yellowish white and tinged with a little red, obovoid, 
the base much constrieted into a false stalk, sessile, apex sunken, 
the minute umbilical scales brownish red. 
Represented by number 11241, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, July, 1909. 
On a wooded ridge along the Baraeatan creek at 2250 feet. 
"Robuttum" is the Bagobo name. 
