1316 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vou. IV, Arr. 69 
Type specimen 12407, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 
1910. 
Discovered in sandy soil of light woods near limestone out- 
croppings extending into Nipa swamps toward the barrio called 
Ipi. Rare! 
Apparently nearest related to F. chyrsolepis M iq. 
3. PSEUDOPALMA. 
Ficus pseudopalma Bico. F. palmijolia Usteri Beitr. 127. 
Represented by number 12557, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
Collected in thickets of grass lands at 50 feet altitude. Very 
common from the seacoast up into the hills of northern Sibuyan 
and is the typieal coarse species. 
4. SYCIDIUM. 
Ficus hauili Blco. 
Field-note:—An erect or ascending shrub; stem 4 inches 
thick, 10 feet high, branched from below the middle; bark smooth, 
grayish white; branches spreading, quite numerously rebranched, 
tough; petioles seurfy brown, ascendingly curved; blades limp, 
deep green and usually folded upon the upper side, paler green 
beneath, the main nerves whitish; figs solitary or in axillary 
pairs, flattish globose, 0.75 inch across, more or less ridged es- 
pecially toward the apex, densely covered with brownish white 
lenticels, hard, deep green toward the sunken umbilicus, whitish 
toward the base, upon stout triangular stalks less than 0.5 inch 
in length. 
Represented by number 12450, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
Throughout light woods near the seacoast and in thickets 
bordering small meadows. The natives on Sibuyan call it 
*'Labuog." 
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