FEBR vary 26, 1912] A FascicLE or Parawan Fics 1387 
This unique species was discovered in fertile humid forests 
at 750 feet altitude, on the trail to Napsan which is a small set- 
tlement on the west coast of middle Palawan. 
Quite typical of Blumes' Javan species which is here for 
the first time collected and reported from our archipelago. 
Ficus confusa Elm. 
Field-note:—A sprawling and subscandent shrub; stems 
several, 1 to 2 inches thick, branched from their bases, 10 to 25 
feet long; branches freely rebranched, slender, lax, horizontally 
spreading or drooping, forming an interlaced net work; wood 
rather hard, finely grained, whitish, without odor or taste; bark 
easily stripping, tough, grayish brown, very smooth, green 
beneath the epidermis, otherwise whitish, apparently without 
latex; leaves descending, nearly flat, tips recurved, pleasing 
green except the old dark green ones, submembranous, the 
larger veins whitish beneath, diverse in size, usually the larger 
blades terminal; figs hard, luteus to aurantiacus, perfectly glo- 
bose, less than 0.5 inch in diameter, solitary or in pairs from the 
leaf axils, upon short greenish recurved peduncles; florets nearly 
of the same color. 
Represented by number 12845, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
Upon a huge bowlder lying in a creek bed at 1500 feet 
altitude and where the dense forests from both mountain sides 
entirely covered the steep water course. 
Again I report this under my name rather than under F. 
philippinensis Mig. whose name is antedated by F. philipinense 
Hort. Y do not doubt that my number 8004 from Twin Peaks is 
identical with 1937 Cuming, but I do doubt whether our parti- 
eular plant in hand is the same. It has leaves and bud bracts 
two to three times as large. 
Ficus tayabensis Elm. 
Field-note:—A large tree climber; stem subterete, 2 inches 
thiek, bendable, branched at the top only; branches numerously 
rebranehed and forming interlaced masses, grayish white, the 
subflexible twigs ascendingly eurved; wood soft, with large pores, 
