1322 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vorn. IV, Arr. 69 
across, ultimately turning yellow and becoming soft, smooth 
and deep wine red; umbilical scales deep red even in the green 
fruits, flowers also reddish. 
Represented by number 12403, Elmer, Magallanes, (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
In dry grass lands of open more or less thicketed 
pat/ fats?500 feet elevation. Nowhere common in the Philip- 
pines yet widely distributed. The natives call it also ''Talo- 
bog." : 
Dr. Warburg writes of his F. blepharostoma as differing from 
F. heteropoda Miq. in the alternate leaves and axillary recepta- 
cles. Of his F. decussata he says that it has the habit of F. his- 
pida Miq. Yet ihe facts are exactly reversed. Namely, F. 
blepharostoma Warb. is allied to F. hispida Miq., while F. de- 
cussata Warb. is quite the same as F. heteropoda Miq. under the 
section of Covellia. 
6. EUSYCE. 
Ficus paloensis Elm. 
Field-note:—A small erect tree; stem 7 inches thick, 20 
feet high; branching mainly at the top, forming a flattish crown, 
widely spreading, the ultimate ones suberect; wood whitish, 
odorless, slightly sweet, very pulpy or soft; bark smooth, grayish 
white mottled, that on the branchlets brownish, full of latex; 
leaves horizontal, shallowly folded and slightly recurved, deeper 
green above, submembranous; figs usually in pairs from the 
leaf axils or in the axil of their scars, 0.75 inch long, ovoidly 
ellipsoid, yellow, after heavy rains the mature ones split open 
from apex toward the base into few to several rather regular 
carpellary divisions. 
Represented by number 12559, Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Sibuyan, May, 1910. 
In dry humus covered soil of a wooded ridge at 750 feet al- 
titude or higher. ''Talobog" is the native name. 
Only ‘sparingly known from the middle or the central Vie 
sayan region. 
