1250 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY (Vor. IV, Arr. 67 
Type specimens 10877 and 10708, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Mindanao, May to Jun», 1909. 
The first cited number was collected in very moist rich soil 
of a densely forested flat at 3750 feet or at the base of mount 
Calelan; the last number cited in similar places near the Baruring 
river along the trail to Talon. In this latter sitio are a number 
of immense trees with perfectly straight and round boles, 5 feet 
through and 75 to 100 feet long. Both of them were named for 
me by the Bagobos as ‘‘Tapasan.”’ 
My number 10264 from Negros is the same and was on 
page 537 of this publication reported under F. nervosa Hey. 
Ficus cordatifolia Elm. n. sp. 
Tree, with a 15 m. high and 6 dm. thick stem; trunk not 
straight, terete, buttressed at the base; wood moderately soft 
odorless, with a slight sweet taste, its concentric rings fine; bark 
grayish white, smooth; branches chiefly at the top, forming a 
flattish crown, crookedly rebranched, the twigs 1.5 em. thick and 
ascendingly tipped. Leaves glabrous, coriaceous, turning bright 
brown while curing, alternatingly clustered toward the ends of 
the twigs, horizontally spreading, somewhat recurved and con- 
duplicate on the upper richly lucid green surface, a trifle yellow- 
ish green beneath, cordately ovate to oblong or subelliptic, entire, 
the average blade 2 dm. long by 1.5 em. wide below the middle, 
apex gradually rounded, base broadly but not deeply cordate; 
midvein stout, more apparent from the nether side, smooth and 
shining yellowish green, straw brown when dry; lateral nerves 
7 to 9 on each side, a secondary primary pair arising from near 
the base, the others oblique, also prominent on both sides, their 
tips united by arches less conspicuous, articulations fine and rela- 
tively bold on both surfaces; petiole green, glabrous, ascending, 
stout, 2 to 7.5 cm. long; bud bracts densely covered with cinereous 
hairs, imbricate, 1 em. long, acuminate. 
Receptacles pendulous, usually in pairs from the lower leaf 
axils, perfectly globose, smooth and subglaucescently green, nearly 
2.5 em. in diameter; peduncle also smooth, yellowish green, 
slender, 2 to 3 em. long, with a fringe of bract vestiges 5 mm, 
long below the receptacle; umbilicus small, raised, guarded by the 
soft tips of the inner protruding scales; flowers apparently gall 
