1382 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Art. 71 
icus flat, minute, covered over with few rigid and flat scales; 
flowers of three distinct kind, male, gall and fertile female, more 
or less all scattered and intermixed; male monandrous, 4 mm. 
long, clavate, the dark reddish brown perianth entirely covering 
it, the 2 mm. long stipe nearly black and curved, eventually 
becoming: 3-segmented; anther cordately ovate to elliptic, upon 
a very short dark colored stalk and attached to a similarly col- 
ored connective, the entire flower subtended by linear 1.5 mm. 
long involucral bracts; gall flowers similar, the involucral bracts 
splitting clear to the base into 2 or 3 oblanceolate segments; 
ovary ellipsoid, dark brown, 1.5 mm. long; style subterminal, 
straight or curved, nearly black, ending into an acutely pointed 
expanded oblique stigmatic shield; fertile female subsessile, the 
slender style and stigma as well as the short pedicel very deep 
brown, subtended by 3 to 5 rather broad and oblong 2 mm. long 
involucral bracts; ovary at least 1.5 mm. long, compressed, yel- 
lowish, truly lateral, oblong from the side view. 
Type specimen 13008, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
This young epiphyte was discovered in moist red soil with 
-an unknown depth of gravelly subsoil on the wooded banks of 
the Iwanig river at 250 feet altitude. Like other species on the 
banks of water courses, its limbs far extend over the open space 
for light, air and no doubt the cooling effect of the water. 
The leaf character would place this species with F. chry- 
solepis Mig. and F. prunijormis Blm., the fruits are however 
more nearly related to F. palawanensis Merr. and allied species. 
Ficus strangularis Elm. n. sp. 
At first epiphytie, eventually developing into a tree-like 
form; stem irregular, forming an interlaced mass about its for- 
mer support; main branches 3 dm. thiek, ascending, ultimately 
numerously rebranched and widely spreading horizontally; 
wood finely grained, rather brittle, dingy or yellowish white, 
"without odor or taste; bark grayish white, smoothish, the inner 
side sappy white and with scarcely any latex; twigs suberect, 
. tough, glabrous, the young portion yellowish gray. Leaves 
. alternate, mostly toward the ends of the bracteoles, horizontal 
or descending, coriaceous, shining deep green on the curvingly 
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