1384 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. IV, Arr. 71 
and stoutly graft themselves into the soil in a tree-like fashion. 
The interlaced united tree trunk about its host becomes stronger 
and near the ground often becomes reinforced with buttresses. 
Gradually its living host is strangled to death standing, since 
the epiphyte has grown into a stout tree-like form itself. In 
this state it appears as a tree with an irregular trunk. 
Group VII. 
Ficus garciae Elm. bo 
Field-note:—Medium sized erect tree; stem 1.5 foot thick, 
40 feet high, terete, nearly straight; wood very soft or pulpy, 
odorless and nearly tasteless, whitish but the central mass slightly 
tinged with roseus; bark thick, the middle portion roseus, the 
inner whitish layer with an abundance of latex, the gray epi- 
dermis covered with numerous circular and flattish rather large 
brown excrescences; branches chiefly at the top, numerously f 
rebranched and forming a flattish erown; twigs ascending, green- 
ish brown and soft; blades upon ascending petioles, descending, 
flat or shallowly folded upon the upper very deep lucid green 
surface, tips recurved; figs clustered and hanging upon stout 
sparingly branched tubereles less than 6 inches long; peduncles 
dull green, very lax and limp, at least 3 inches long; syconium 
obovoidly globose, 1 inch across, green and becoming streaked 
with pale red; florets brown. 
Represented by number 12846, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
Found standing in a stone gravelly creek bed at 1500 feet, 
whose steep mountain sides were heavily forested. 
Group VIII. 
Ficus celebica Miq. 
Field-note:—Twining epiphytes near the ground; stem 2 
inches thick, terete, usually more than one from the base, slen- 
der and spreading, 10 feet long, freely branched all along; twigs 
