FEBRUARY 26, 1912] A FasciCLE oF Parawan Fics 1377 
chartaceous, much darker green above, the veins beneath yel- 
lowish white; petioles scurfy brown, quite flexible; infrutescence 
along the stem and larger branches, upon 1 to 2 feet long pen- 
dant ligneous flexible tubercles which are numerously rebranched, 
dark brown im color and more or less ringed; peduncle green, 
descending; figs obovoidly globose, at least 1 inch across, hard, 
shining green but provided with brown lenticels which have 
whitish borders, umbilicus greenish; flowers brownish or whitish. 
Represented by number 12669, Elmer, Brooks Point (Ad- 
dison Peak), Palawan, February, 1911. 
This tree stood in black moist soil mixed with fine gravel 
of woods bordering swampy places at 25 feet altitude. The 
Tagbanuas call it “Tabog.” 
Not typical F. merrittii Merr. yet apparently more closely 
related to it than to F. nota (Bleo.) Merr. 
Group IV. 
Ficus heteropoda Miq. 
Field-note:—Small erect tree; stem 6 inches thick, terete, 
25 feet high, somewhat crooked, branched at the top; wood very 
soft and pulpy, coarsely ringed, dingy white, without odor or 
taste; bark yellowish brown mottled, hypodermis green, other- 
wise whitish; main branches ascending, relatively short, nu- 
merously rebranched; twigs brownish, also short, suberect, form- 
ing a small dense crown; figs in dense cauline clusters, from very 
short branched woody tubercles, peduncles pale green, the fruits 
at least 0.5 inch thick, subglobose, rough, only the umbilical 
scales purplish tinged, otherwise aurantiacus or when fully ripe 
softer and more red. 
Represented by number 13070, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
In moist soil of lightly wooded benches near the Tagbuli 
creek at 50 feet altitude. Very characteristic, both in habit 
and place of growth. 
Ficus sulcata Elm. n. sp. 
Shrub; stem when solitary 5 em. thick, in ours there were 
