FEBRUARY 26, 1912] A FascicLe or Parawan Figs 1385 
laxly spreading, yellowish, the young portion covered with brown 
hairs; wood dingy white, odorless and tasteless, distinctly grain- 
ed; bark greenish gray, smooth, rather thin, with latex; leaves 
membranous, few, slightly recurved toward their apices, paler 
green beneath; figs globose, clustered along the branchlets, hard 
and stramineus, papillate except the dark green umbilical por- 
tion, 0.25 inch in diameter, soft and ochraceus when mature, 
flowers pale white. 
Represented by number 12772, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
This scandent low ground epiphyte was gathered in humus 
covered red soil with a stony or gravelly subsoil in dense woods 
near the Iwahig river at 500 feet. 
Ficus copelandii C. B. Rob. 
Field-note:—A slender spreading shrub; stem 2 inches thick, 
10 to 15 feet long, occasionally few from the same root cluster, 
suberect or reclining, branched all along; the slender flexible 
twigs suberect; wood whitish, odorless and tasteless, finely yet 
distinctly ringed, mòderately soft; bark also whitish beneath 
the smooth yellowish brown epidermis, the inner part contains 
a trifle latex; leaves horizontal or descending, flat, tips recurved, 
very much paler green beneath, chartaceous; figs chiefly along 
the branchlets though also in the lowermost leaf axils, globose, 
7.5 mm. in diameter, dark green and with paler green or yellowish 
white spots, when ripe soft and aurantiacus; its flowers deep red. 
Represented by number 12830, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
Collected in stony or gravelly soil along the Iwahig river 
banks densely covered with trees and vines at 750 feet altitude. 
Ours is quite typical except for the slightly narrower leaves. 
F. copelandii C. B. Rob. is common on the Zamboanga peninsula 
and this collection represents the first found outside of that 
district. 
Ficus pisifera Wall. 
Field-note:—A stocky tree; trunk 1.5 foot thick, 25 feet 
high, rather crooked, branched from below the middle, not 
