FEBRUARY 26, 1912] A FascrcLE or Parawan Fras 1389 
atively conspieuous; petiole dull brown in the dry state, scabrid, 
7.5 mm. long; bud bracts setae-like, less than 5 mm. long, smooth 
or slightly scaberulous, brown. 
Receptacle solitary or in small groups, scattered along 
the branchlets or in the leaf axils, hispid, globose or more 
elongated, 7.5 mm. in diameter, pale latericius, becoming 
quite soft with maturity; peduncle 3 mm. long, subtended at 
the base by minute bract-like ‘scales, at the distal end or 
upon the basal portion of the receptacle provided with a few 
short broad bracts; umbilicus cireular and a trifle raised, set 
in upon the depressed or sunken apical portion of the fruit, the 
inner scales short and hyaline; flowers male and gall only; the 
male in a circle beneath the umbilical scales, upon short ped- 
icels, 2 mm. long, monandrous; perianth segments opening 
down to below the anther into 3 nearly equal parts, scarcely 
exceeding 1 mm., very hyaline; anther pale yellow, broadly el- 
liptie, 0.75 mm. long, emarginate at apex, bilobed at base; gall 
flowers scattered, similar; ovary yellowish, smooth, bluntly 
ellipsoid, 1 mm. across; style subterminal, whitish, short, bearing 
a small brown stigma. 
Type specimen 12796, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
This was found growing near a woodland stream in dry 
gravelly soil among bowlders at 250 feet altitude. 
It certainly cannot be referred to the low or creeping 
shrub which King discusses under F. quercifolia humulis (Miq.). 
Neither is it from description F. sinuosa Mig. nor F. inconstans 
Mig., the former of which is identical with F. cumingii Mig., 
and both of which must be reduced to the older F. ulmifolia Lam. 
Also to be compared with F. terminalifolia Elm. from Sibuyan is- 
land. This group is the most difficult of our figs for correct inter- 
pretation we have in the Philippines, and a systematist without 
field knowledge can do nothing with a lot of herbarium material 
carelessly collected and to which are attached unreliable data. 
Ficus pustulata Elm. n. sp. 
A strictly erect shrub; stem terete, few to several from the 
same root cluster, 1 to 2 m. high, 1.5 em. thick, flexible, branched 
chiefly toward the top; wood moderately hard, tough, white, 
