AvGust 25, 1914] A FascicLE or Norta AGUSAN Fios 2389 
green stalks, 0.33 inch aeross, soft and vinosus when ripe; 
florets light red. In Manobo ‘‘Pangoal.?? 
Represented by number 13818, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
Urdaneta), Provines of Agusan, Mindanao, September, 1912. 
Gathered in damp woods upon a very steep incline 
of Cawilanan peak at 4500 feet altitude. 
Group III 
(Ficus minahassae Miq.) 
Ficus minahassae Miq. 
Field-note:—Low and widely spreading trees; trunk terete, 
10 inches thick, 20 feet high, branched from below the 
middle; wood soft and whitish; bark smooth, whitish mot- 
tled, otherwise reddish tinged; main branches widely spread- 
ing and repeatedly rebranched; twigs slender, ascendingly 
* curved, usually provided with dry brown bracts; leaves 
horizontal or descending, submembranous, paler green beneath, 
upon terete brownish petioles; lax tubercles pendant, 1 to 3 
yards long, occasionally branched; figs in globose heads, 0.75 
inches in diameter, red when mature, the truncate apical 
portion provided with cremeus papillate lenticels, the um- 
bilical bracts greenish in the immature state. In Manobo 
“*Malatungbog.”” | 
Represented by number 13995, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, October, 1912. 
Usually in rich soil of secondary woods among the hemp 
fields along the Minusuang river at 500 feet above sea. 
Ficus subalbida-ramea Elm. n. sp. 
A small or middle sized tree; trunk 2.5 dm thick, 
crooked and subterete, 10 m high, branched trom near the 
middle; wood dingy white or yellowish tinged, quite odor- 
less, more or less pulpy; bark smooth, mottled; main branches 
ascending, ultimately spreading and numerously rebranched; 
twigs ascendingly curved, light gray, only the young tips 
minutely puberulent. Leaves descending or the upper ones 
horizontal, subchartaceous, diverse in size, alternatingly scat- 
