1376 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 71 
our young leaves are not tessellate as they are on my F. war- 
burgii. The branches of our Palawan plant are smooth and 
grayish white, on the Lucban plant they are reddish brown. 
There are also some floral differences. Possibly both of these 
two closely allied species should be referred under Synoecia of 
Dr. King’s monograph. 
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Group III. 
Ficus corona King. 
Field-note:—A small or middle sized suberect tree; stem 
6 inches thick, occasionally 2 or 3 from the same base, subterete, 
20 feet high, branched from below the middle; main branches 
ascending, ultimately recurved, numerously and laxly  re- 
branched, the short twigs suberect; wood soft, pulpy, white, 
light, entirely without odor or taste; bark smooth, grayish white 
cremeus except the epidermis; leaves mostly descending, sub- 
membranous, pale green, still paler beneath, flat or slightly id 
conduplieate, diverse; figs pendant, upon flexible branched tu- 
bercles a foot or a yard long, obovoid, 0.75 inch long, dark green, 
not hard, upon greenish peduncles, rugose toward the apex, 
sprinkled with brown lenticels; tubercles as well as the twigs 
caesius or subglaucus green; flowers yellowish or light molas- 
ses brown. 
Represented by number 13085, Elmer, Puerto Princesa (Mt. 
Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
Collected in slightly wooded gravelly flats along the Bal- 
sahan river at 100 feet and at the base of the foothills. Only 
known from Palawan and Mindoro of the Philippines. 
Ficus merrittii Merr. 
Field-note:—A short tree; stem crooked, 1.5 foot thick, 
buttressed near the ground, branched from below the middle, 
. 20 feet high or higher; wood dirty white, soft, winged, without 
. taste or odor; bark smoothish, mottled, freely bleeding with | 
=~ a white sap; branches, spreading, the ultimate ones suberect 
| . and dull brown; leaves nearly flat, with recurved tips, sub- 
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