DECEMBER 19, 1911] A FascıcLe or Davao Fras 1265 
hanging upon 3 to 13 inches long tubercles along the stem and 
larger branches; tubercles flexible, branched; figs dull green, with 
small brown lenticels, subglobose excepting the elongated basal 
stalk, 1.5 to 2 inches in diameter, apex flat, with a sunken um- 
bilicus, between the middle and the apex undulately marked 
with concentric ridges and bracts, peduncle proper 1.5 inch 
long. 
Represented by number 10898, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, June, 1909. 
Scattered in light woods of moist fertile soil at 3000 feet 
altitude. ''Basicong" is the native Bagobo name. 
Ficus cuernosensis Elm. 
Field-note:—A small tree; stem 5 inches thick, 15 feet 
high, branched from above the middle; branches laxly spreading, 
twigs suberect; wood very soft, sappy white, odorless and 
tasteless; bark brown, smooth, mottled on the branches; leaves 
subchartaceous, descending, spreading, shallowly conduplicate 
on the upper darker green surface, tips abruptly recurved; figs 
subglobose, fully 0.5 inch thick, green and provided with minute 
brown lenticels which are surrounded by yellowish zones, mostly 
few clustered in the leaf axils; flowers red. 
Represented by number 10717, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, May, 1909. 
In damp fertile soil of dense forests at 3500 feet altitude, 
north of the Baruring river along the trail to Talon. The ver- 
nacular or Bagobo name is “‘Basicong.”’ 
Its leaves are similar to F. cuernosensis Elm. but its infru- 
tescence not quite so typical. 
Ficus cassidyana Elm. 
Field-note:—A shrub-like tree; stem 16 feet high or less, 
solitary or 2 or 3 from the base, branched from below the middle, 
3 to 5 inches thick; wood soft, pale white, light, odorless, with 
a slight sweet taste; bark smooth or only thinly checked, yellow- 
ish and more or less mottled with gray blotches; limbs slender, 
divarieately spreading, only sparingly rebranched, the rather 
slender ultimate ones curvingly erect; leaves membranous, 
