1252 | LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vou. IV, Art. 67 
Receptacles peduncled, solitary in the leaf axils, ellipsoid, 
hard and blotched with brown, apparently turning soft and 
purplish when fully ripe, 5 em. long, at least 3 em. across the 
middle, smooth; peduncle very short and thick, terete, subtended 
by short and rigid bracts or none; umbilicus nipple shaped, the 
opening small and circular, the inner bracts subhyaline or brown, 
broadly oblong; flowers male and gall only, all intermixed; 
staminate ones monandrous, subtended by linear 2 mm. long 
brown colored bracts or scales pedicel whitish, twisted and looped, 
5 mm. longer or 1 to 2 mm. long irregardless of the attachment 
of the perianth; perianth brown, not rigid, subgamophyllous 
or splitting up into 3 segments nearly 1.5 mm. in length, attached 
1 or 2mm. beneath the anther; anther curved dorsally, 1.5 mm. 
long, nearly as broad, ends truncate except the shallow notches, 
pale yellow; pedicel of gall flower brown, 2 mm. long, nearly 
ebracteolate or the bracts reduced to a short tube encircling 
the pedicel, glabrous; gall ovary reddish brown, short ellipsoid 
or ellipsoid, nearly 2 mm. long, strict, 1 mm. long, sublateral, 
terminated by a small darker brown stigma. 
Type specimen 11822, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, September, 1909. 
On a sharp densely forested ridge trail leading out of the 
very wet or humid Mainit creek bottom toward Baclayan at 
4500 feet. To this species the Bagobos unmistakably apply 
their own vernacular name *'Cataupi." 
Distinctly allied toF. apiocarpa M iq. 
Ficus areolata Elm. n. sp. 
A liana-like climber; old stems 7.5 em. thick, somewhat 
flattened ; branches quite numerous at the top, rigid; wood white, 
rather solid and tough, with a large pith; bark on stem gray 
and brown mottled, tough and easily peeling along the branchlets, 
the young glabrous portion dull brown in the dry state, more or 
less sprinkled with minute lenticels. Leaves alternatingly scat- 
tered along the branchlets, coriaceous or subchartaceous, glab- 
rous, dull green above, lighter and tessellate beneath but when 
` dry dark brown or dull copper color, usually descending, entire 
but the margins revolute even so in the dry state, oblong to 
elliptish, the average blade 12 cm. long by one half as wide across 
