DECEMBER 19, 1911] A FascrcLE or Davao Fics 1251 
and male; male confined to the regions of the umbilical scales, 
| 3.5 mm. long, monandrous usually although one flower contained 
1 2 anthers, completely enveloped by a reddish brown gamophyl- 
| lous perianth; gall flowers 1 mm. longer, with a longer and curv- 
ed stipe, the perianth 5-segmented clear to below the ovary ; ovary 
yellowish brown, shining, ellipsoid, 1.5 mm. long; style arising 
from the side, 1 to 2 mm. long including the stigma. 
Type specimen 10997, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, June, 1909. 
Discovered in dry soil of woods along the ridge of the Baraca- 
tan ereek at 1500 feet and bordering the upper limits of the cogon 
areas. The native or Bagobo name is ''Magalangit." 
The leaves are like those of F. cordatula Merr. and F. sericea 
C. B. Rob. from this same general region, and are strikingly similar 
to F. gigantijolia Merr. and F. malunuensis Warb. of a more 
northern range. Only critically distinguished from the latter by 
the shorter leaves whose bases are not rotund to subtruncate, 
i lateral nerves always less than 9 on each side; peduncles also 
i shorter, bearing receptacles not broadly elliptie and which are 
1 never puberulous. 
Ficus cataupi Elm. n. sp. 
A lofty tree climber; branches ashy gray mottled, flexible, 
erookedly rebranched and forming a more or less interlaced mass 
along the upper side of large limbs; twigs numerous, short, virgate, 
wrinkled in the dry state, reddish brown and puberulent to short 
pubescent on the young tips. Leaves ample, alternate, rigidly 
chartaceous, acute tips recurved, mainly horizontally disposed, 
glabrous above, subglabrous beneath, pale or yellowish green 
and tessellately marked or punctured, variable in size, the entire 
margins involute, base rounded but occasionally obtuse, broadly 
lanceolate to ovately oblong, the larger blades 7.5 em. long and 
3.5 em. wide below the middle; midvein prominently raised 
beneath, only sparsely strigose; the 5 to 7 lateral nerves on each 
side divaricate, ascendingly curved toward their ends which are 
interarchingly united, less pronounced, the fine reticulations 
obscure; petiole less than 1 em. long, stout, ascending, at first 
strigose, ultimately brown and subglabrate; bud bract linearly 
acuminate, finally becoming subglabrous, 5 to 7.5 mm. long. 
