DECEMBER 19, 1911] A FascrctE or Davao Fies 1257 
the involucre, globosely flattened, 0.75 inch across, dark green, 
with minute pale white lenticels, finely pubescent. 
Represented by number 11081, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, July, 1909. 
Collected in good soil of woods skirting small streams at 1500 
feet altitude. The native or Bagobo name is ‘‘Sangi.” 
The leaves of this material have shorter tips and on the 
whole our specimens are much less hairy. It has also been 
collected in the lake Lanao region of this same island. Its re- 
lationship is clearly with F. benguetensis Merr. and the two 
varieties. 
Ficus laxiramea Elm. n. sp. 
A lax shrub; stem 3 to 5 m. high, 4 cm. thick; branchlets 
slender, not very numerous, tips glabrous and ascendingly curved; 
wood nearly white, moderately soft, odorless and without taste; 
bark smooth, greenish mottled. Leaves alternatingly scattered 
toward the ends of the fine branchlets, descending, glabrous, 
drying greenish, flat, much lighter green beneath even so in 
the dry state, the acute apex recurved, the basal one half more 
distinctly inequilateral, submembranous, gradually tapering 
from the middle to the cuneate base, margins entire, quite varia- 
ble in size, the average blade 1 dm. long by 3 cm. wide above 
the middle, broadly oblanceolate or sometimes narrowly oblong; 
midvein reddish brown in the dry state, whitish when fresh, 
smooth and glabrous, flat beneath, slightly grooved above; the 
9 to 11 lateral pairs of nerves less evident, divarieate but tips 
ascendingly curved and faintly united, reticulations very fine 
and obscure; petiole slender, 1 em. long, glabrous; bud bract 
thin| membranous, reddish brown when dry, glabrous, cau- 
dately acuminate, curved, 2.5 cm. long. 
Receptacles solitary or in pairs from the leaf axils, suberect, 
1.25 em. long, obovoid, glabrous, gradually tapering from the 
base to the more or less irregularly ridged subtruncate apex, 
whitish toward the base and dark green toward the apex, sprinkled 
with minute white spots; umbilieus not pronounced, bordered 
by a circular rim, covered by short and broad bracts; pe- 
dunele green, less than 1 em. in length, smooth, at the distal end 
or just beneath the receptacle provided with 3 very small glabrous 
