2394 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. VII, Arr. 1:2 
riaceous, horizontal or descending, shining deep green on the 
upper shallowly curved side, paler beneath, apices strongly 
recurved; figs in divaricate axillary pairs, hard and ruber 
red except ,the yellowish umbilicus, the subtending bracts 
yellowish green. ''Balete" in the Manobo dialect. 
Represented by number 13737, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, September, 1912. 
Collected from lofty trees in the saddle between Duros 
and Cawilanan peaks at 3500 feet altitude. 
Ficus everettii Elm. 
Field-note:—Climbing along a large tree trunk up to the 
first limbs; stem messed and tightly cleaving to its support; 
wood soft, pulpy, concentrically marked, nearly tasteless, 
odorless, dingy or yellowish white; bark gray and covered 
with brown excrescences; main branches few, long, horizontally 
spreading, ultimately numerously rebranched, the twigs ascend- 
ingly curved; leaves rigidly coriaceous, ascending or horizontal, 
shallowly folded if at all on the upper much deeper green 
surface; midvein pale yellowish green, apex abruptly recurved; 
figs usually in axillary pairs, yellow as are also the rigid 
subtending bracts, hard, more or less irregularly round, the 
fruit with the bracts less than 0.5 inch long. ‘‘Balete’’ in 
Manobo.: . 
Represented by number 14046, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, October, 1912. 
Collected in a densely forested depression at 3500 feet 
altitude between Duros and Cawilanan peaks. 
Ficus umbo-bracteata Elm. 
Field-note:—A large tree climber; stem or few stems 
arising from the same place, 6 inches thick, subterete, slightly 
twisting about their support, twice as thick toward the top 
or 40 feet above ground or at the first limbs of the host 
tree; wood soft, dingy white, its concentric rings conspicuous; 
bark brown, densely covered with excrescences, gray on the 
branches, with much latex; main branches few, ascending or 
horizontally spreading, 20 to 30 feet long, ultimately freely 
