94 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 67 
syconium thick, hard, dark green especially toward the shallow- 
ly ridged apex and sprinkled with minute white spots; flowers 
creamy white. 
Represented by number 10522, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, May, 1909. 
Inhabiting thickets of fertile soil on the eastern slope of 
Angat’s knoll at 4250 feet. ‘‘Latayi’” is the Bagobo name. 
Possibly F. didymophylla Warb. should be reduced to Father 
Blanco's name, at least it belongs to the same section. 
Ficus lucbanensis Elm. 
Field-note:—Shrub 12 feet high; branches widely spread- 
ing, lax, the green terminal portions of the twigs ascending; 
bark smooth, mottled; wood soft, odorless and tasteless, yellow- 
ish white; leaves horizontally spreading, slightly recurved toward 
the tip, thinly coriaceous, deep dark green above, much lighter 
beneath, the main nerves yellowish white; figs clustered upon 
short tubercles, from the leaf axils or from the axils of fallen 
leaves, subglobose, 0.5 inch in diameter when mature, dark green, 
covered with small yellowish brown lenticels. 
Represented by number 11800, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo). 
Mindanao, September, 1909. 
Inhabiting rich humus covered soil of dense forests at 4000 
feet of mount Calelan. The Bagobo vernacular name is “Alian.” 
Quite typieal and in this state readily distinguished from 
F. hauili Blco., both in the field and herbarium. Not certainly 
known from other localities. 
Ficus banahaensis Elm. 
Field-note for 10905:—Small tree; stem 6 inches thick, 18 
feet high, only sparingly branched above the middle and divari- 
eately spreading; wood light, soft, odorless and without taste; 
bark grayish or mottled, brown on the branches; twigs 0.5 inch 
thick, their tips suberect ; leaves terminally clustered, ascendingly 
spreading from the brown suberect and subterete petioles, flat 
with only the tips recurved, subcoriaceous, much paler green 
beneath, the larger veins on the nether side yellowish green; 
figs clustered immediately beneath the foliage, obovoidly glob- 
