1270 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 67 
Ficus variegata Blm. 
Field-note:—4A large 60 feet high tree; trunk not straight, 
subterete, 3 feet thick, buttressed ; limbs widely spreading, forming 
an umbrella shaped crown; wood quite soft and fibrous, whitish 
on the outside, reddish toward the center, odorless and tasteless; 
bark brown, lenticelled, thick, flowing with latex when cut; 
leaves spreading, nearly flat, lucid dark green on the upper side, 
much paler beneath, coriaceous, veins yellowish green; infru- 
tescence upon 1 to 5 inches long thick rigid woody and only 
sparingly branched tubercles; figs hard, smooth, obovoid, 2 | 
inches thick, green with reddish streaks especially toward the ! 
sunken apex; peduncles green, pendulous, 3 inches long, at the 
distal end crowned with a ring of obscure bracts. l 
Represented by number 10707, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), i 
Mindanao, May, 1909. 
Collected in woods at 3500 feet on the trail following the d 
Baruring river toward Talon. The native or Bagobo name is 1 
“Basigong.”’ | 
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Ficus latsoni Elm. : 
Field-note:—Tree, rather of a large size; stem more or less 
crooked, branched mainly toward the top, round, 2 feet thick, 
50 feet high, buttressed at the base; wood soft, light, pale white 
and with reddish streaks, odorless and tasteless; bark densely 
lenticelled, otherwise smoothish, of a characteristic cinnamon 
" brown; branches crookedly rebranched, the main ones widely 
separating, reddish brown, the twigs suberect; leaves coriaceous, 
ascendingly spreading, dark green on the upper conduplicate 
side, much paler beneath, the main veins yellowish or rather 
whitish green; figs clustered and hanging from short unbranched 
tubercles along the larger as a well as along the smaller branches, 
obovoid, apex deeply sunken, smooth, green, less than 0.5 inch 
in diameter, upon dark green and pendant peduncles. 
Represented by number 10991, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, June, 1909. 
Gathered from steep wooded slopes of the Baracatan creek 
at 1500 feet. The natives or Bagobos call it *Banacol." 
