‘Aveust 25, 1914] A FascICLE or NonTH Acusan Fics 2395 
rebranched; twigs rigid, 0.5 inch thick, suberect; leaves rigidly 
coriaceous, horizontal, nearly flat but apex abruptly recurved, 
paler green beneath, the veins yellowish green, bud bract 
dull green; fruits ascending, ellipsoid, 1 inch long, deep red 
when mature, subtended by yellowish bracts. Also called 
“*Balete’’? by the Manobos. 
Represented by number 14117, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, October, 1912. 
Found on a steep and densely forested ridge at 4250 
feet altitude of Cawilanan peak. 
Group VII 
(Ficus variegata Elm.) 
Ficus garciae Elm. 
Field-note:—Crooked tree; trunk 1.5 foot thick, terete, 
30 feet high, with its main branches from the middle; bark 
* with an abundant flow of latex, thick, dirty brown and moss 
covered, smooth, testaceus except the epidermis; wood soft, 
light, white, with conspicuous concentrie rings, without odor 
Or taste; branches widely spreading and freely rebranched, 
the slender twigs ascendingly curved; leaves upon yellowish 
brown ascending petioles, horizontal, shallowly folded, tips 
recurved, coriaceous; figs upon very short occasionally branched 
tubercles from the larger branches, hanging upon yellowish 
green very flexible terete 8 to 5 inches long peduncles, glo- 
bose, 1.25 inch in diameter, hard, light green, whitish spotted; 
florets dirty brown. In the Manobo dialect it is called **Agahon.”” 
Represented by number 13380, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 1912. 
In wet stone gravelly ground of the Catangan creek bank 
at 1250 feet altitude. 
Group VIII 
(Ficus pisifera Wall.) 
Ficus pisifera Wall. 
Field-note:--Shrub 15 feet high, with a 3 inches thick 
stem; branches arising from near the base, long, repeatedly 
