1258 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. IV, Arr. 67 
bracts; the inner scales strongly deflexed, spathulate, 2 mm. long, 
smooth as is also the inner side of the syconium; flowers male 
and gall only; male flowers few, concealed beneath the bracts, 
3 mm. long, monandrous, glabrous; its pedicel wand-like, 2 mm. 
long, provided with 3 to 5 bracts, the upper 2 or 3 enclosing the 
anther prior to anthesis, oblanceolate, all brown and glabrous; 
anther 2-celled, upon a short stipe, the 2 cells widely separated, 
longitudinally dehiscent, 1 mm. across, emarginate at apex, 
bilobed at base, slightly broader than long; gall flowers evenly 
scattered over the balance of the syconium, 3 mm. long, upon 
2 mm. long stipes, many remain undeveloped, subglobose or 
obovoid, smooth, brown, 1 mm, in diameter, ridged along one 
side, bearing a short lateral pistil on the opposite side; style very 
short, bearing a slightly oblique flattened darker brown stigma. 
Type specimen 10786, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
It was discovered in dense forests of a steep fertile slope 
at 4500 feet of mount Calelan. My Bagobo companion called 
it "Kalat-tayia." 
This species belongs in the alliance with F. lucbanensis Elm. 
and others, but most closely to a specimen marked F. curranii 
Merr. from the Benguet mountains. The stipules in ours are 
much slenderer, twigs lax not at all furfuraceous, peduncles 
shorter and with smaller fruits. 
Ficus adamsii Elm. n. sp. 
Lofty tree; stem terete, 1.5 m. thick, 25 m. high or higher, 
its main limbs arising from below the middle; branches numerously 
rebranched ; wood coarsely grained, odorless and nearly tasteless, 
not hard yet quite brittle, whitish; bark 2.5 em. thick, yellowish 
gray, covered with excrescences, that on the branchlets smooth 
or in the young state minutely pubescent, its hypodermis light 
yellow, otherwise brownish, with a thin or watery latex. Leaves 
descending, folded upon the upper semilucid surface, alternatingly 
arranged toward the tips of the twigs, much lighter green beneath, 
sunken, drying blackish brown, deciduous, leaving nearly cir- 
cular scars, entire, subcoriaceous, gradually terminating into 
the slightly recurved acute to acuminate apex, below the middle 
gradually narrowed or cuneate, at the very base blunt, oblong 
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