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LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 69 
B. Male, gall and fertile female flowers on the same 
receptacles. 
2. Urostigma. 
BB. Flowers unisexual; male and gall flowers in one 
set of receptacles; fertile female flowers only in 
another set. 
C. Flowers monandrous. 
D. Usually unbranched palm-like shrubs. 
3. Pseudopalma. 
DD. Branched vines, shrubs or trees. 
E. Receptacles axillary. 
4. Sycidium. 
EE. Receptacles mostly in fascicles from 
stem and branches. 
5. Covellia. 
CC. Flowers di-rarely triandrous. 
D. Receptacles mostly axillary. 
6. Eusyce. 
DD. Receptacles mostly in fascieles from stem 
and branches. 
7. Neomorphe. 
I. PALAEOMORPHE. 
Ficus pisifera Wall. 
Field-note:—A weak strangling epiphyte, about 30 feet 
from the ground; stems several or few from the same root cluster, 
branched from near the base, 2 to 3 inches thick; wood odorless, 
tasteless, moderately hard, with fine yet evident concentric rings, 
yellowish white; bark smooth, yellowish and gray mottled; 
branches laxly spreading, the twigs suberect; leaves scattering, 
not numerous, horizontal, chartaceous, deep lucid green above, 
much paler beneath, tips recurved; figs dull purple, chiefly along 
the stem and branches, occasionally clustered in the leaf axils. 
Represented by number 12232, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
Inhabiting woody borders of cool airy places along the 
Patoo river at 750 feet, in moist gravelly soil of the river banks. 
Usually it grows nearer the ground. "This the Sibuyan Visayan 
calls “Nonok.” 
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