FEBRUARY 26, 1912] A FascicLE or PatawaNn Firas 1379 
brown, subtending the similarly colored ovary, subhyaline, less 
than 1 mm. long, broad and subtruneate, splitting down to the 
base on one side; gall ovary smooth, 1.5 mm. long; style lateral 
short, obliquely extending, bearing a small expanded stigmatie 
portion. 
Type specimen 12686, A. D. E. Elmer, Brooks Point (Ad- 
dison Peak), Palawan, March, 1911. 
Discovered in black compact humus covered soil of woods 
interspersed with cogon grass at 25 feet altitude. A few dwarfed 
shrubs of this species, without fruits, were also observed in the 
vicinity of Puerto Princesa. The fruits, a day after collecting 
still contained a great deal of clear water, which could easily 
be pressed through the umbilicus in a fine stream 5 dm. long. 
The Tagbanuas call it '*Nududalug." 
A remarkably distinct species from all other Philippine 
figs, the characters of its foliage reminding one of F. mina- 
hassae Miq. 
Group V. 
Ficus indica gelderi (Miq.) King. 
Field-note:—A straggling epiphyte; stems 3 or more, rather 
slender and widely spreading, 10 feet long, 2 inches thick, re- 
peatedly branched, terete; branchlets lax, relatively short, the 
tips ascending; wood soft, odorless and tasteless, whiter on the 
outside, finely ringed concentrically; bark grayish or yellowish 
white, more or less lenticelled, reddish brown except the epi- 
dermis, its latex viscid; leaves rigidly chartaceous, flat except 
the slightly recurved tips, a trifle paler green beneath; figs sol- 
itary or 2 or 3-clustered, ellipsoid, less than 0.5 inch long, smooth, 
pale green, ultimately ruber red especially about the umbilicus. 
Represented by number 12728, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
Upon the axils of the lower limbs of a middle sized tree along 
a thinly wooded streamlet at 250 feet, ‘with its limbs reaching 
out over the creek. 
The fruits are more similar than the leaves to my number 
9384 from Lucban and which was distributed under this same 
