1388 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IV, Aur. T} 
the outer portion dingy or yellowish white, the central dull in- 
earnatus, odorless and tasteless; bark reddish beneath the dull 
ardiseus or blaekish smoothish epidermis, the whitish inner sur- 
face contains a flow of latex; leaves horizontal or descending, i 
chartaceous shining deep green on the upper shallowly folded 
surface, much lighter green on the nether side, the prominent ? 
veins beneath yellowish, tips strongly recurved; the petiole tes- ; 
taceus; figs solitary or in pairs from the leaf axils or in their 
scars, upon greenish recurved peduncles, ruber red, the syco- 
nium yellow, so are also the flowers with only a tinge of red, sub- 
globose or globose, with ends somawhat flattened, 7.5 mm. in 
diameter. 
Represented by number 13045, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
A liana-like vine in rich moist forested flats at 250 feet al- 
titude. 
This is the first time it has been rediscovered. It seems 
to be related to F. ramentacea Rozb. | 
Group XI. 
Ficus celtoides Elm. n. sp. 
Erect shrub; stem 1 dm. thick, 3 m. high, subterete, crooked, 
its main branches arising from the middle; wood moderately 
hard, sordid, odorless and without taste, finely ringed; bark 
smooth, gray and brown mottled; branehes widely spreading, 
numerously and erookedly rebranched, the lax or rather slender 
twigs erect or nearly so, the young portion subscabrous. Leaves 
alternate or occasionally opposite, ascending, apical portion 
recurved, only a trifle paler green beneath, very scabrous on 
both sides, drying green, chartaceous, oblongish, usually acu- | 
minate at apex, base roundly obtuse, margins toward the base "E 
usually entire, otherwise irregularly dentate and occasionally ' 
with shallow sinuate lobules, the larger blades 1 dm. long by 4 
em. wide a trifle above the middle, copious and frequently much 
smaller, glabrous; midvein prominent, with 5 to 7 primary 
. lateral pairs, all strongly oblique especially the basal pair, with 
their tips meee none, coarse, cross bars or reticulations rel- 
