DecemBer 19, 1911] A FascicLE or Davao Fics 1249 
Possibly it should better be considered a variety of F. pala- 
wanensis Merr. but fruits are entirely too large. 
Ficus apoensis Elm. n. sp. 
An exceedingly large straight tree; trunk 20 or more m, high, 
to 1.5 m, thick, branched above the middle, with small buttresses; 
main branchlets slender, divaricate, lax, their tips yellowish brown; 
wood light and soft, with conspicuous concentric rings, yellowish 
white, without. odor or taste; bark blackish brown and smooth; 
young twigs glabrous. Leaves chartaceous, descending, only 
slightly conduplicate and recurved toward the apex, lucid, green 
above, yellowish green beneath, alternatingly scattered along the 
branchlets, glabrous, exceedingly variable in size, entire, apex 
narrowly acuminate, the smaller ones lanceolate, the larger blades 
elongated oblong, 3 dm. long by 7.5 em. wide across the mildle, 
base obtuse or in the smaller ones subcuneate, drying deep brown 
especially on the under side; midvein stout, boldly raised, its sides 
with appressed deciduous hairs, deeply grooved on the upper side; 
lateral pairs 10 to 15, ascending, also prominent, subparallel, 
strongly and conspicuously ribbed together, the subbasal pair 
much more ascending and running along the margins, reticulation 
quite evident; petiole glabrous, very strong, 2 cm. long, channell- 
ed along the upper side; buds 1 em. long, glabrous, finely acu- 
minate, usually curved to one side. 
Receptacles axillary, solitary or in pairs, globose, hard, dull 
green, covered with minute yellowish spots, 1.5 cm. in diameter; 
peduncle yellowish green, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, glabrous, ebracteate, 
umbilicus minute, scarcely raised, guarded by very small imbri- 
cated bracts, the inner ones oblong and pendant; flowers male 
and gall only or with a few sterile ones mixed in between; male 
. beneath the inner umbilical scales, monandrous, glabrous, dark 
brown, 4 mm. long; pedicel 2.5 cm. long, rather stout, curved, 
bearing at the distal end 4 lanceolate segments which are united 
below the middle and surround the real but slender pedicel; 
stamen 0.75 mm. long, fully as wide, upona short stalk, light 
yellow, encased by a sheath or secondary perianth; gall flowers 
scattered, similar to the male; gall ovary straw brown, smooth, 
obovoid, 1.25 mm. long; style lateral, oblique, only one half as long, 
reddish brown especially toward the scarcely enlarged stigma. 
