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folded upper surface, duller and much paler beneath, oblong 
or elliptic so, entire, curing blackish brown, acute to acuminate, 
base obtusely rounded or shallowly auriculate, very smooth 
and glabrous, the average blade 17.5 em. long by 7.5 em. wide 
across the middle; petiole 2 to 3 em. long, stout, glabrous, canie- 
ulate along the upper side, easily becoming detached and leav- 
mg oval scars; midvein exceedingly pronounced on the under 
side, the straight 9 to 11 lateral pairs oblique especially the 
basal pair which arises 3 to 5 mm. above the base, tips inter- 
arching, all smooth and in the fresh state whitish, reticulations 
fine and relatively conspicuous; bud bract also glabrous, acu- 
minate, nearly 1.5 cm. long or longer. 
i Receptacle usually solitary in the leaf axils below the fo- 
liage, descending, sessile, short ellipsoid, up to 3 cm. long, when 
fully mature soft and pale green or yellowish so with darker 
green papillae; subtended by one or more ring-like vestiges of 
green bracts; umbilicus smooth and minute; the centrally pointed 
scales brown, linear, 3 mm. long, with truncate tips; flowers 
apparently only fertile female and gall flowers mixed through- 
out; gall flowers upon stout 2 to 3 mm. long pedicels, the red- 
dish brown perianth covering the ovary but finally splitting 
into 3 segments; the gall ovary ellipsoid, very sordid, bearing along 
its side a short shriveled style; fertile female upon shorter ped- 
icels, loosely surrounded by a 2 or 3-segmented perianth of 
unequal lengths; ovary bright yellowish brown, oblongish ellip- 
soid or subreniform, 2 mm. long, smooth; style attached at 
the middle on a side, crustaceous, 2 to 3 mm. long,the shriveled 
stigmatic portion dark brown. 
Type specimen 12956, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
This is one of the powerful strangling fig cleavers in the 
Philippines. They all start as epiphytes from seed dissemina- 
ted by birds or monkeys and begin growing in some favorable 
lodging place such as the moist humus covered axils of the lower 
limbs of moderately large trees. During the first period of its 
life it is distinctly recognized as an epiphyte. It developes into 
several widely spreading limbs for air and light, and its basal 
or root portion grows downward into several root stems, irre- 
gularly and promiseuously about the trunk of its host or support 
until the humid ground is reached. Then they strike roots 
