1380 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. IV, Art. 71 
name. It really ought to be referred to F. -gelderi Mig., that is, 
if our Philippine plant is exactly what Miquel had in mind, for 
it is reasonably distinct from our Philippine F. indica Linn. 
Ficus palawanensis Merr. 
Field-note:—An inclining tree; stem usually solitary but 
occasionally few, 1 foot thick, 30 feet long, subterete, branched 
from near the base; branchlets slender, horizontally spreading 
or drooping, only sparingly rebranched, tips suberect; wood 
quite tough, the outer 2 inches white and which abruptly changes 
to the incarnatus greater central mass, odorless and without 
taste; bark thick, grayish white blotched on the surface, brown 
in the middle region, yellowish upon exposure on the inner 
side, with latex; leaves rigidly chartaceous, slightly conduplicate 
on the upper and greener surface, veins beneath whitish or 
relatively so; figs in pairs from the leaf axils only, hard and ruber 
red, 0.75 inch long when fully ripe on the twigs in which state 
it becomes soft in texture and turns nearly purplish black except 
the ochraceus bract protected portion. 
Represented by number 13009, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
Collected on wooded banks of the Iwahig river at 250 feet 
altitude, in red soil with a gravelly or stony subsoil. 
This species the writer has collected in middle Luzon, in 
the Visayan region, southern Mindanao, but nowhere was it 
seen in such abundance as in Palawan its topotype. 
Ficus clusioides Miq. 
Field-note:—Tree; trunk short, conspicuously wadded and 
buttressed at the base, giving rise to a few ascending and stem- 
like branches which far extend over the river bed and ultimately 
are numerously rebranched; twigs slender, greenish; wood soft, 
slightly tinged except the sapwood, ringed, nearly odorless and 
tasteless; bark with an abundance of latex, smooth, whitish ex- 
cept the brown inner side; leaves rigidly coriaceous, only shallow- 
ly folded upon the upper side, paler beneath; figs usually in pairs 
from the leaf axils, sessile, the large rigid bracts nearly flavus, 
when fully ripe soft, compressed globose, 2 em. in diameter, smooth 
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