FEBRUARY 26, 1912] A FascicLE or Parawan Fics 1391 
gall ovary smooth, straw color, as long as its pedicel, ellipsoid, 
bearing a short subterminal brown style. 
Type specimen 12874, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911. 
` Discovered in dry copses in compact soil over stony or gra- 
velly subsoil at 250 feet or less in altitude. 
Ficus cardinalicarpa Elm. n. sp. 
Strictly erect and shrubby; stems branched above the 
middle, 1.5 m. high, solitary or few clustered, 1.5 cm. thick, 
terete, flexible; wood quite hard, tough, whitish except the 
greenish pith, ringed; bark very smooth, whitish on the inner 
side, the hypodermis greenish brown on the surface especially 
| so on the branchlets; branches ascending, quite numerous, lax, 
| glabrous and smooth even the young parts, with but little latex. 
| Leaves alternatingly scattered along the branchlets, coriaceous, 
linear to lanceolate, diverse in size, paler or subglaucus green 
beneath, drying dull brown or blackish, entire, glabrous not 
; Scabrous, margins subinvolute, the larger blades 1 dm. long by 
1.5 em. wide below the middle, slenderly tapering to the acumi- 
nate point, base roundly obtuse; midvein whitish when fresh, 
| blaekish brown when dry; the basal pair of lateral ones run- 
ning submarginally and connecting with the other 7 to 13 
divaricate lateral ones which are much less conspicuous, reticula- 
tions nearly obsolete; petiole ascending, glaucus green, gla- 
brous, becoming scurfy brown, 1 em. long; stipule or bud bract 
7.5 mm. long, brown, glabrous, sharply pointed, deciduous. 
Receptacle solitary or at most in pairs from the leaf axils, 
| ovoidly globose or ellipsoid, 1 to 1.5 em. long, glabrous and subglau- 
3 cus in appearance, strongly verrucose, the apical portion or the 
umbilical region much constricted, terete, soft and deep pleasing 
red in the mature state; peduncle less than 3 mm. long, Saug ved, 
glabrous, bearing at its distal end 3 minute bracts; umbilicus 
conically raised, circular, bordered by a cartilaginous ring, aper- 
ture covered over by short flat scales, the inner overlapping 
scales broad for their length; flowers numerous, male and gall 
only; the male scattered in the upper one half of the syconium, 
diandrous; pedicel 2 mm. long, weak, hyaline; perianth seg- 
ments free, reddish brown, spoon shaped, less than 1 mm. long: 
