DECEMBER 19, 1911] A FascicLE or Davao Fires 1259 
to broadly lanceolate to oblanceolate, the blades 15 em. long, 
5 em. wide across the middle, frequently smaller; midvein prom- 
ment, nearly black when dry, also glabrous; lateral nerves 11 
to 14 pairs, slightly ascending, much less prominent, straight 
and nearly parallel, the subbasal pair still less prominent and 
much ascending, tips united in high arches, reticulations obsolete; 
petiole subglabrous, 3 to 5 em. long or even longer, with a minute 
groove on the upper side; bud bract eaducous, 1 em. long, rigid, 
nearly glabrous, sharply pointed. 
Receptacles ascending, mostly in pairs of the leaf axils, 
8 to 12 mm. long, subglobose, green, with yellowish lenticels, 
smooth, wrinkled in the dry state; umbilicus smooth, slightly 
in a ring shape, the inner bracts rather broad, transversely placed ; 
peduncle less than 1 em. long, puberulous, slightly thickened 
and without bracts toward the distal end but usually glandular 
or verrucose; flowers male and gall only; the male monandrous, 
scattered throughout the syconium, 2 mm. long; pedicels 1 mm. 
long, nearly as broad, smooth although somewhat angular; 
perianth splitting into 4 segments, quite rigid, dark brown, linear 
spatulate to lanceolate, arising from near the top of the stout 
pedicel; anther subsessile, 1.25 mm. long, quite broad and truncate 
at both ends, the rigid connection very dark brown; gall flowers 
more numerous, similarly spreading, sessile, the subtending 
perianth segments much more narrower and setaceously pointed, 
usually curved; its ovary ovoid, 1.25 mm. long, with age be- 
coming ellipsoid; style terminal, as long as the ovary, of the 
same yellowish brown color, slightly thickened toward the base, 
terminally attached; stigma blackish brown, rather narrow, 
usually tipped. 
Type specimen 11177, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, July, 1909. 
In dense woods of fertile soil along the Sibulan river 
at 2500 feet altitude. The Bagobos call it *Ocob." Named 
after the man who first recognized the utility of this 
genus. 
Ficus multiramea Elm. n. sp. 
A slender erect tree; stem 12 m. high, 3 dm. thick, its main 
branches from above the middle; branches numerously and 
