1318 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 69 
Ficus terminalifolia Elm. n. sp. 
Shrub, 3 m. high; stem 5 cm. thick, branched from below 
the middle; branches slender, freely rebranched, lax and some- 
what drooping, the apical portion of the young twigs scabrid and 
brownish in the dry state, suberect ; wood soft, white, without odor 
or taste; bark smooth, white or grayish white. Leaves ascending, 
spreading, shining on the upper folded side, a trifle paler green 
beneath, drying greenish, glabrous, similarly scabrous on both 
sides, mostly opposite and crowded at the ends of the branchlets, 
broadly lanceolate to oblongish, entire, the blades varying 
from 4 to 10 cm. long, from 1.5 to 3.5 em. wide across the middle, 
acuminate, base obtusely rounded or merely obtuse, midvein 
yellowish, glabrous, quite prominent beneath; nerves in the 
larger leaves 7 to 9 on a side, ascending, the basal pair subparallel, 
tips arched and faintly united; reticulations coarse and relatively 
prominent; petiole finely scabrid, 1 em. long, turning brownish; 
bud bracts sharply acuminate, brown and subglabrous or cin- 
ereous, 5 mm. long. 
Respectacles clustered along the branchlets, green, flattish 
globose or obscurely ovoid, less than 1 em. across, scabrously 
pulverulent, ultimately turning smooth, soft and reddish; pe- 
duncle slender, 3 mm. long, bearing at the upper end united bracts; 
umbilicus conically flattened, the numerous tips of the inner 
protruding scales reddish, the inner scales hyaline and firmly 
ciliate; inner surface of.syconium hairy; flowers apparently ster- 
ile female or gall only, 2.5 mm. long; stipe 1 mm. long, sur- 
rounded by the perianth tube, strigose; sezments 1.5 mm. long, 
hyaline, oblanceolate or linear, finely ciliate on the margins at 
least, splitting clear to the base into 5 segments ; Ovary some- 
what compressed, shining, yellow, obovoidly ellipsoid, 1 mm. 
across; style lateral, white except the terminal dark reddish 
brown stigma, very finely ciliate. 
Type specimen 12115, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, March, 
1910. 
Discovered in fertile compact soil among shruberries bor- 
dering grassy glens at 500 feet altitude. Only a few shrubs 
were observed and it seems quite unlike its other Philippine 
