1386 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, ArT. 71 
terete; branches widely spreading, the ultimate ones quite slen- 
der and not at all numerous; wood yellowish white, moderately 
soft, odorless, nearly tasteless, with conspicuous concentric 
rings; bark smoothish, yellowish blotched, freely bleeding with 
latex; leaves chartaceous, horizontal and somewhat recurved, 
nearly flat, dark green above, paler on the nether side; figs in 
fascicles, chiefly along the branchlets, hard, yellow except the 
greenish apical portion, very numerous, the inside whitish except 
the pink tipped umbilical scales. 
Represented by number 12664, Elmer, Brooks Point (Ad- 
dison Peak), Palawan, March, 1911. 
Collected in wet soil of woods bordering sparse mangrove 
swamps at 15 feet altitude. The natives or Tagbanuas call it 
“Cayoyobang.”’ 
This is more typical than I have ever collected and in the 
field it has quite a distinct habit, differing from my previously 
collected specimens distributed under this same name. The 
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leaves on our material average somewhat larger than on Wallich's 
specimen. 
Ficus recurva Blm. 
Field-note:—A fine small tree trunk climber; stem terete, 
flexible, 0.5 inch thick, attached to its support, terminating 
with a few long branches, 20 feet from the ground; branchlets 
slender, drooping, eurved, aseending toward their tips; leaves 
roughened beneath beside being finely pubescent, diverse, mar- 
gins more or less recurved, alternate, horizontal, recurved | 
toward the apex, chartaceous, nearly flat or shallowly condu- 
plicate on the upper darker green surface; wood porous, whitish, 
no odor nor taste; bark grayish white, more or less ringed and 
minutely lenticelled, relatively thick, the hypodermis green, 
the inside sappy white, apparently without latex; figs in small 
groups of the fallen leaf axils along the branchlets, upon ascend- 
ing yellow stalks, globose, luteus to aurantiacus except the 
slightly purple tinged umbilical scales, rather dry and rough, 
not hard nor soft, the apex slightly sunken, otherwise globose, 
. . 0.25 to 0.33 inch in diameter; flowers much paler yellow. 
| Represented by number 13072, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
. (Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
