FEBRUARY 26, 1912] A FascicLE or Parawan Figs 1381 
and dark violaceus; in the younger state of a light shade of 
pink sprinkled with whitish spots, hard, with a slightly raised 
nearly smooth yellowish umbilicus; flowers dirty white. 
Represented by number 12765, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
On a wooded gravelly bank of the Iwahig river at 500 feet 
altitude. 
Ours is a good match for Cuming 1929, the type of Miquel’s 
species. The young figs are more or less covered with the bracts. 
Ficus iwahigensis Elm. n. sp. 
A strangling climber; stem turning and twisting, tightly 
cleaving to its support, subterete, 8 em. thick, suddenly branched 
5 m. above ground; branches spreading, 3 feet long, repeatedly 
branched; branchlets slender, somewhat drooping, smooth, 
yellowish gray, with ascending tips; wood soft, porous, the greater 
outer portion melleus, the heartwood sordid, the concentric rings 
humerous and quite distinct, odorless and tasteless; bark gray- 
ish brown, roughened with blunt lenticels, otherwise testaceus 
except the sappy white inner side, latex abundant. Leaves 
alternatingly scattered along the twigs, horizontal or descending, 
flat or only the apex recurved, subcoriaceous, drying blackish 
brown, very unequal in size, elliptic oblong, entire, apex rather 
abruptly acute, base of the smaller blades obtuse, rounded on 
the larger ones, the average lamina 15 em. long and one half as 
wide across the middle; midvein prominent, the 9 primary lat- 
eral pairs divergent, also conspicuous, the basal pair arising 
3 mm. above the base and oblique, all interarching, reticulations 
rather numerous and quite evident; petiole stout, glabrous, 1 to 
3 em. long, caniculate along the upper side, easily becoming 
detached and leaving oval scars; bud bracts at least 1.5 em. 
long, glabrous, sharply acuminate. 
Receptacle in pairs of the leaf axils, hard, smooth, ruber 
red, 2 em. long when fully grown, becoming nearly purplish black 
and soft on the twigs exc2pt the basal portion protected by the 
bracts which remain ochraceus, ellipsoid with truncate ends, 
sessile; bracts 3, rotately spreading, green, with yellowish mar- 
gins, the middle basal portion slightly hairy, ridged or developed 
into an umbo, ovately elliptic, as long as 7.5 mm. long; umbil- 
