Avaeust 25, 1914] A FascicLE or Norta Acusan Fras 2387 
Group I 
(Ficus pseudopalma Blco.) 
Ficus pseudopalma Blco. 
Field-note:—A  palm-like or unbranched shrub; stem terete, 
nearly straight, 2 inches thick, 10 to 15 feet high; wood 
very soft, white, slightly sweet, odorless, with a large pith; 
bark smooth, light gray, whitish on the inner side, its hypo- 
dermis green; leaves alternatingly crowded toward the top, di- 
varicate, chartaceous, lucid above, light or relatively yellowish 
green beneath, the marginal sides very coarsely wavy, after 
falling leaving blunt heart shaped scars; petiole very short 
but stout, yellowish brown, much thickened and somewhat 
compressed; figs severally crowded upon a short woody and 
persistent rigid tubercle, very irregular or obovoidly elonga- 
ted, purplish toward the base, light brown lenticelled, the 
raised umbilicus very rigid and rugose, the upper figs in the 
cluster are young ones while the older or mature ones are 
crowded toward the base on the outer side. “Banangal”” in 
- Manobo. 
Represented by number 13867, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, September, 1912. 
Scattered here and there in compact soil among secon- 
dary woods along the Minusuang river at 500 feet above 
sea level, 
Group II 
(Ficus cataupi Elm.) 
Ficus cataupi Elm. 
Field-note:—A liana-like shrub; stem repeatedly branch- 
ed; twigs numerous, relatively short, divaricate, usually cnrv- 
ed about the limbs of its support, very wiry; leaves very 
rigid and chartaceous, flat but gradually curved, dull green 
above, beneath paler and tessellate; figs pendant upon very 
short stalks, usually solitary from the leaf axils, dark green, 
subglobose or short ellipsoid, 1 inch across, dull brown spot 
ted. "''Oataupi" in Manobo. 
