Avaust 25, 1914] A Fascicne or Norra Aqusan Figs 2393 
stem and larger branches, pendant from short woody tu- 
bercles; stalks flexible, green as are the nearly glcbose recep- 
tacles; florets dull red. ‘‘Libtuhan’’ is the local native 
Manobo name. 
Represented by numbers 13681 and 13260, Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July 
and September, 1912. 
In well drained humus covered fertile soil of a steep 
densely wooded depression at 3500 feet altitude between 
Duros and Cawilanan peaks. The latter number was collected 
at 1500 feet lower elevation and was called *'Basicong.”” 
Neither of these is typical. 
Ficus cassidyana Elm. 
Field-note:—Slender shrub like tree; stem 4 inches thick, 
20 feet high, terete, rather straight, mainly branched toward 
the top; wood soft and sappy white, concentrically ringed, 
a trifle sweet, odorless; bark yellowish gray, smooth, otherwise 
whitish and with a thin pale white sap; main branches 
few, ascendingly spreading, sparingly rebranched; twigs slender, 
0.5 inch thick, ascendingly curved; leaves upon ascending 
petioles, the blades also ascending or horizontal, apex ab- 
ruptly recurved, otherwise flat, harsh, membranous, lighter 
green beneath, the veins beneath yellowish green; figs very 
dark green, upon few to 6 inches long sparingly branched 
tubercles from along thestem only, compressed obovoid, deeply 
sunken at the blackish umbilicus, castaneus hairy and occasion- 
ally spotted with yellowish white milk spots, 8 inches across 
though immature, barely as long. ‘‘Dacab-caban’’ in Manobo. 
Represented by number 13809, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, September, 1912. 
Inhabiting stony ground near the Dalahion creek at 8000 
feet altitude or just above its falls. 
Group V 
(Ficus indica Linn.) 
Ficus palawanensis Merr. 
Field-note: —Epiphytic and forming tree like trunks; main 
branches few; twigs tough, ascendingly curved; leaves rigidly co- 
