1314 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 69 
Collected in wet compact soil of woods near a limestone 
seacoast. '"'Nonok" is the Visayan name, yet that name is also 
applied to a strangling species of Fagraea. 
Ficus indica Linn. 
Field-note for 12386:—Apparently a young cleaver or stran- * 
gling climber, upon a medium sized tree; stem 3 inches thick ) 
or thicker, 30 feet long, occasionally branched, terete, a few 
times winding about its host or support; bark smooth, yellowish 
gray, with little latex; soft wood sappy white, odorless and 
tasteless; branches divaricate, long, freely rebranched and hori- 
zontally spreading over the creek space; twigs lax, suberect; 
leaves coriaceous, horizontal, duller and darker green above, 
flat except the recurved apex; figs subglobose, dull orange red, 
umbilicus much deeper red, the bracts yellowish green, small, 
in sessile pairs from the leaf axils. 
Represented by numbers 12386 and 12291, Elmer, Magal- 
lanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
Here as well as in other localities, this species is usually 
met on the wooded banks of creeks and rivers bordering the 
open airy space of the creek or river flat. The local Visayan 
name is **Nanok-bina-baya." 
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Ficus tinctoria Forst. 
Field-note:—A  subprostrate shrub or sprawling among 
thickets; stem several inches thick, solitary or sometimes 2 or 3- 
clustered, terete, branched from near the base, 10 to 15 feet 
high or long; main branches widely spreading, rather long, the 
ultimate suberect or relatively short and quite rigid; wood 
dingy white, odorless, distinctly sweet, quite tough; bark very 
strong and easily stripped, very smooth, conspicuously whitish; | 
leaves ascending, rigidly chartaceous, nearly fiat, somewhat 
recurved, shining green above, paler or yellowish green beneath; 
figs when mature light yellow, globose, 0.5 inch thick, soft, upon 
0.33 inch long erect stalks. 
Represented by number 12557, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
Collected in turf soil near the coast. It is a seacoast plant 
