1256 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 67 
Represented by number 11852, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, September, 1909. 
Inhabiting good humus covered soil of light woods on a 
steep slope along the Sibulan river at 4000 feet. Nowhere 
common in the Philippines and usually on bluffs along water 
courses at middle elevation. ‘‘Ropit’’ is the Bagobo name. 
Merrill's type has opposite leaves. F. irregularis Mig. 
has alternate leaves. Our material has both opposite and al- 
ternate leaves. However, all our Philippine specimens have 
much larger fruits than Miquel’s little known yet very distinct 
Celebes species. 
Ficus guyeri Elm. 
Field-note:—Shrub-like tree, 15 feet high; main branches 
arising from below the middle, ascending, ultimately numerously 
rebranched; twigs very slender, brown, usually with ascending 
tips; wood rather soft, odorless and tasteless, whitish; bark smooth, 
brightly mottled; leaves chartaceous, horizontal or ascending, 
with recurved tailed apices, deep green and somewhat shining 
on the upper side, much lighter beneath; figs descending, usually 
single from the leaf axils, globose, 0.33 inch in diameter, yellow, 
with red conspicuously raised umbilical scales, ultimately soft 
and deep red all over, upon yellowish green pedicels. 
Represented by number 11775, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, September, 1909. 
In moist soil among rocks of shaded woods along the Sib- 
ulan river bottom at 2500 feet altitude and near the spray of 
that magnificent falls. ‘‘Diagaring” is the Bagobo name. 
It can easily be confused with F. ampelas Burm. 
Ficus carpenteriana Elm. 
Field-note:—Small shrub-like tree, 20 feet high and 6 inches 
thick; stem branching from the middle or below it, erookedly 
rebranched; wood whitish, soft, without odor or taste, the con- 
centric rings conspicuous; bark smooth, mottled; leaves hori- 
zontally spreading, flat or only recurved toward the apex, char- 
taceous, very deep green above, much lighter beneath; figa 
clustered in the leaf axils, subtended by green bracts besides 
