DECEMBER 29, 1911] A FascicLE or Sipvyan Figs 1321 
Collected in red soil with a gravelly subsoil along the wooded 
banks of the Patoo river at 750 feet. This the local Visayan 
calls ‘‘Talobog.”’ 
Not typical, the leaves are too short for their width. 
Ld 
" Ficus repandifolia Elm. 
Field-note for 12249:—Erect, middle sized tree; stem 6 
inches thick, 20 feet high, branched above the middle; wood 
soft, sappy white, with fine concentric rings, slightly sour, odor- 
less; bark smooth, grayish white mottled; main branches widely 
f spreading, freely rebranched above the middle, twigs ascending 
| and relatively short; leaves leathery, ascending, flat or only the 
tips recurved, deep velvety green above, much paler or yellowish 
green beneath; figs chiefly clustered upon short thick ligneous 
tubercles scattered along the main branches, 0.75 inch long, 
subglobose but with a more or less flattened apex and a con- 
stricted base, 0.5 inch across, green with very minute creamy 
white spots, quite hard; the flowers are pink or flesh red; the 
t seeds are brown. 
» Represented by numbers 12249, 12523 and 12413, Elmer, 
Magallanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Sibuyan, April to May, 1910. 
In moist gravelly soil of wooded banks along the creeks 
and larger rivers as well as along forested ridges at 750 to 1000 
feet. Very common in our region. ''Talobog" is the Visayan 
name given to this number; “Cama-hiwan” to number 12523 
and ‘‘Uloy-catoy”’ to 12413. 
i^ Ficus heteropoda Miq. F. decussata Warb. in Perkins’ 
Frag. Fl. Philip. 198, 1905. F. anomala Merr. in Philip. Journ. 
Sci. I, Suppl. III; 183, 1906. 
Field-note:—A rather short erect tree; stem 6 inches thick, 
nearly 15 feet high, widely branched from the middle; wood 
> pale white, rather soft, without odor or taste, its concentric rings 
prominent; main branches nearly horizontal, the branchlets 
suberect; bark smoothish, grayish white; leaves horizontal or 
: descending, chartaceous, rough, folded upon the upper side, 
f* apex recurved, paler green beneath, diverse in size; figs upon 
short tubercles from the stem, flattish globose, 0.5 to 0.75 inch 
