1262 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vou. IV, Arr. 67 
Type specimens 10810 and 11129, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), Distriet of Davao, Mindanao, June and July re- 
spectively, 1909. 
Quite large trees discovered on a very steep gorge near the 
Baruring river at 3000 feet. The Bagobo calls number 11129 
“Ropit.” 
In the group with F. asperrima Roxb. and F. ampelas Burm. 
Ficus nota (Blco.) Merr. 
Field-note:—Tree, 30 feet high, with an 8 inches thick 
stem; stem crooked, branching from above the middle, forming 
an umbrella shaped crown; wood very soft, white, coarsely grained, 
odorless and tasteless; bark brown and obscurely checked, gray 
and smooth on the branches; leaves submembranous, flat, dull 
green on the upper side, paler beneath, the veins beneath yel- 
lowish green; figs upon slenderly branched and hanging tubercles, 
from the stem and larger branches, 1 inch across, green, brown 
lenticelled, nearly globose or obseurely obovoid, upon 1 inch 
long green and flexible peduncles. 
Repiesented by number 10967, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, June, 1909. 
Collected in damp woods near the Baracatan creek at 1500 
feet and at the upper limit of the cogon fields. ‘‘Basicong”’ 
is the native Bagobo name. 
A widely distributed species at least as far as the Philippines 
are concerned. It is closely allied to F. merrittii Merr., less 
closely to F. satterthwaitei Elm. 
Ficus disticha Bim. 
Field-note:—A numerously branched tree climber; stem 
1.5 inch thick, round; branches tough, quite rigid, their ultimate 
ends suberect; old bark lenticelled and grayish brown, young por- 
tion smooth and scurfy brown, freely bleeding with latex; wood 
porous, sappy white, odorless and tasteless; leaves rigidly 
coriaceous, lucid dark green above, yellowish tessellate beneath, 
upon ascending petioles, the blades flat but gradually re- 
curved; figs usually axillary or along the virgate twigs below the 
foliage or upon short leafless stalks, obovoid, 0.33 inch long. 
