1392 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. IV, Arr. 71 
3 or more anthers upon hyaline short stalks, yellowish, strongly 
curved, broadly oblong, ends truncate and notched, about 1 mm. 
long; gall flowers scattered throughout but especially numerous 
in the lower one half of the syconium, 2 mm. long, subsessile or 
upon a 0.5 mm. long pedicel, subtended by usually 3 acuminate | 
reddish brown free perianth segments 1.5 mm. in length; gall y 
very smooth, 1 mm. long, yellow, ellipsoid, bearing a stubby 1 
lateral style. 
Type specimen 12875, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
'(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, March, 1911; also number 12876 from 
the same locality. 
This species grows under the same ecological condition as 
the preceding, in shallow red soil or usually in gravelly flats of 
slight woods or in shrubberies at 200 feet. 
The author examined a good many shrubs of both this and 
the preceding species, but never could I detect the two very 
distinct forms of leaves on the same bush. In fact number 
12876 is the widest leaved form found and it distinctly belongs 
here. The fruits, stature, place of growth and even the texture 
of the leaves are exactly the same in the three numbers collected 
and which represent two quite distinct species different from 
any other known Ficus. 
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Ficus ampelas Burm. 
Field-note:—Small erect tree; stem 8 inches thick, terete, 
crooked, 25 feet high, its main branches arising from below 
the middle; branchlets numerous, slender, fine and lax, usually 
drooping; wood odorless and tasteless, rather soft, whitish, with 
coarse rings; bark smooth, grayish white mottled, the middle 
region yellowish, the inner side white and apparently without 
latex; leaves rigidly chartaceous, horizontal or descending, 
folded upon the upper dark green surface, recurved toward the 
apex; figs solitary or in axillary pairs, upon greenish and as- 
cending pedicels which turn yellow with age, flatly globose, 
apex sunken, hispid even in its mature citrinus state, with 
the small umbilical scales pink; flowers pale or greenish white, 
green in the young state. 
Represented by number 13087, Elmer, Puerto Princesa 
(Mt. Pulgar), Palawan, April, 1911. 
