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1266 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vou. IV, Arr. 67 
nearly horizontally spreading, the larger ones 1.5 feet longer 
and 1 foot wide, pale or yellowish green especially so along the 
nerves beneath; infrutescence upon branches, densely bracteate, 
6 inches long, flexible, tubercles along the stem; peduncles 1 
to 2 inches long, terete, green; figs flatly obovoid, 3 inches across, 
very dark green, covered with grayish brown hairs and minute 
light brown colored lenticels. 
Represented by number 11225, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, July, 1909. 
In woods mixed with bamboo tree clumps on a sharp ridge 
leading to mount Burebid at 2750 feet. Called by the Bagobos 
“Basicong.” 
Besides my type from Leyte it is not known. Several plants 
were noticed along this same ridge and later in the season figs 
were seen 4 to 5 inches across. 
Ficus sibulanensis Elm. n. sp. 
A large tree; trunk 20 m. high, 1.25 m. thick, terete; main 
branches arising from the middle, ascending, ultimately nu- 
merously branched; wood odorless and tasteless, quite soft and 
light, sappy white, with conspicuous concentric rings; bark quite 
smooth, grayish white mottled, brown on the slender flexible 
twigs; young portion of twigs covered with yellowish brown 
oppressed hairs but soon becoming glabrous and dull brown. 
Leaves alternatingly scattered along the branchlets, coriaceous, 
horizontal or descending, deep green, shallowly conduplicate, 
glabrous and sublucid on the upper surface, much lighter green 
and soft pubescent on the nether side, entire, elliptic, apex blunt- 
ly obtuse, base roundly obtuse to subcuneate, the normal 
blades 17.5 em. long and nearly 10 em. wide across the middle 
or a trifle above it but frequently much smaller; midvein very 
conspicuous beneath, the 7 to 9 divaricate lateral pairs anas- 
tomosingly interarching at their ends, the subbasal pair ascending 
and parallel to the margin, the secondary nerves evident but 
reticulations obscure, all densely covered with short soft hairs; 
petiole, 1.5 em. long, at first densely canescent but soon becom- 
ing glabrate, deeply grooved along the upper side, when old rus- 
set scurfy brown; bracts 3 cm. long, slenderly acuminate, 
densely canescent. 
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