1320 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 69 
of their functions; flowers apparently only gall, although the 
male should be found ; syeonium densely hairy on the inner side; 
flowers 3 mm. long, upon a whitish 1.5 mm. long pedicel which 
is sparsely strigose, the base of which is surrounded by numer- 
ous long hairs; perianth nearly as long, hyaline with but faint 
brown margins, oblanceolate, glabrous, overarching the ovary; 
ovary ellipsoid, 1 mm. long, yellowish; style oblique, short, the 
lower one half yellowish brown, the curved apical portion dark 
red. 
Type specimen 12236, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. 
This species inhabits rich soil of light woods or in shruber- 
ries of a flat near the Patoo river at 750 feet. “Bili” is the ver- 
nacular name in the Visayan dialect. 
Its nearest match is F. pedunculosa Mig. but that species 
has large pubescent fruits and leaves of a rather different cut. 
Also related to F. irisana Elm. of the Sycidium section which in 
turn closely resembles F. asperior Miq. 
5. COVELLIA. 
Ficus satterthwaitei Elm. 
Field-note:—A small tree; stem 8 inches thick, 20 feet 
high, branched from below the middle; wood moderately soft, 
conspicuously ringed, pale white, odorless and nearly tasteless; 
bark grayish white mottled, smoothish, with latex; main branch- 
es widely spreading, the ultimate ones numerous and forming 
a dense flattish crown; twigs suberect; leaves thinly coriaceous, 
horizontal or ascending, nearly flat, much lighter green beneath, 
greatly varying in size; figs in dense clusters, upon few to sev- 
eral inches long stoutly branched tubercles along the stem, 
flattish, 1.5 inch across, yellowish below the middle, greenish 
above, provided with brown lenticels; flowers reddish brown; 
peduncle yellowish brown, 1.5 cm. long, bearing at the apex 3 
similarly colored bracts. 
Represented by number 12263, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
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