2388 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. VII, Arr. 112 
Representel by number 14211, Emer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, October, 1912. 
Found in the rattan infested summit woods of Duros 
peak at 4000 feet altitude. 
Ficus megacarpa Merr. 
Field-note:—Liana-like shrub; stem 2 inches thick, crook- 
ed and irregularly round, bendable, branched occasionally; 
wood soft, porous, reddish tinged, quite odorless and taste- 
less, pith large; bark smooth or finely lenticelled, chalky 
white mottled; main branches few and long, relatively short 
rebranched; twigs numerous, wiry, commonly curved and 
forming tangled masses; leaves rigidly chartaceous, horizontal 
or descending, sides curved upon the lower paler green sur- 
face; fige hanging in small clusters. from the stem, 2 inches 
thick, globose or nearly so, russet brown and with numerous 
bright red spots or even blotches, upon a brown bracteate 
short woody tubercle. The Manobos like the Bagobos call 
it ‘“Cataupi.’’ 
Represented by number 13932, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, September, 1912. 
On a dry wind swept ridge at 3500 feet altitude of 
Duros peak. 
Not typical. 
Ficus disticha Blm. 
Field-note: —Lofty tree climber; stem near the ground 
terete, 2 inches thick, crooked and twining about its sup- 
port; wood with faint concentric lines, porous, very soft, 
sweetish, odorless, white but reddish tinged toward the cen- 2 
ter; bark relatively thick, dark brown, densely covered with 4 
. latericius colored excrescences, otherwise whitish, with a heavy i 
flow of latex; main branches crawling along the upper side 
of large limbs and repeatedly rebranched, brown and len- 
: ticelled; twigs crooked and wiry, relatively short and very 
numerous, forming tangled masses; leaves rigidly coriaceous, 
ascending and but slightly recurved, tessellate and paler 
green beneath; figs ascending, obovoidly globose, green and 
milk spotted especially toward the umbilicus, upon pale 
