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DECEMBER 29, 1911] A FascicLE or SrBUYAN Fics 1313 
2. UROSTIGMA. 
Ficus similis Merr. 
Field-note:—A middle sized erect tree; stem 45 feet high, 
1.5 foot thick, more or less branched far below the middle; 
branches numerously rebranched, divaricate, the ascending tips 
relatively short; wood whitish, with plain concentric rings, quite 
hard and brittle, odorless and tasteless; bark mostly brown, 
smoothish or lenticelled; leaves chartaceous, mainly horizontal, 
flat or nearly so, deep green above, much paler or yellowish 
green beneath, from ascending yellowish brown petioles; figs 
suberect, arising from the uppermost leaf axils, upon 0.33 inch 
long green peduncles, subglobose, green with white spots, 0.5 
to 0.75 inch across, flowers reddish. 
Represented by number 12265, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
In moist gravelly soil of the wooded banks of the Patoo 
river at 750 feet. 
So far chiefly known in the east Visayan region and along 
the east coast of Luzon as far north as Baler. 
Ficus infectoria caulocarpa (Miq.) King. 
Field-note:—A subscandent and strangling tree climber; 
stems numerously divided and densely interlaced, tightly sur- 
rounding its support, their ramifications grown together where 
intercepted; main branches widely spreading, numerously re- 
branched, the ultimate ones upwardy curved; wood sappy 
white, soft, without odor or taste, the fine concentric rings quite 
plain; bark grayish white, bluntly lenticelled, containing latex; 
leaves horizontal or descending, thinly coriaceous, somewhat 
paler green beneath, tips recurved and margins more or less 
wavy; petioles light or yellowish green as is also the midvein, 
brown at the base and at the top on the nether side; figs globose, 
green as the peduncles and minutely whitish spotted, with 
a dull brown umbilicus; bracts dark brown or at least so fringed 
or margined. 
Represented by number 12454, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
