Arausr 25, 1914] A FascicLeE or Norra Acusan Fics 2397 
quite numerons and filling the upper one third of the sy- 
conium, diandrous but occasionally monandrous, subsessile or 
upon very short stalks, 1 mm long or a trifle longer; per- 
ianth of 3 distinct though unequal segments which are dark 
brown and 0.38 to 0.75 mm in length; filaments slender, 
light brown or subtransparent, as long as the perianth seg- 
ments though exceeding them in anthesis, when in pairs 
always unequally long; anther relatively large, 0.5 to 0.75 
mm long, fully one half as wide, compressed, curved, trun- 
cate and emarginate at both ends, basifixed, usually the 
upper one a trifle larger; gall flowers very light brown, obo- 
void in outline but plainly angular, subsessile or occasionally 
upon a slender 0.75 mm long dark brown pedicel, apex 
truncately rounded, the minute sessile stigma of a deeper 
brown; perianth segments apparently of the same color and size 
as those upon the male flowers, easily becoming detached. 
Type specimen number 13829, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Sep- 
tember, 1912. 
Collected upon the upper side of an inclining tree trunk 
covered with mosses and other vines in the humid forests 
above lake Danao at 5250 feet altitude. The Manobos call it 
“*Dahonon.”” | 
The peduncles are less than one half as long on the variety 
as they are on the species type. Those collected in the lake 
Lanao region by Mrs. Clemens are referable to our variety. 
Ficus driveri Elm. n. sp. 
A sprawling and subscandent shrub; stems several, 2 to 
4 cm thick, branched from their bases and forming an in- 
terlaced network, subterete, the 3 to 8 m long stems branched 
all along and usually reclining; wood rather hard, finely 
grained, whitish, without odor or taste; bark grayish brown, 
very smooth, green beneath the epidermis, otherwise whitish 
and apparently without latex, easily stripping and very 
tough; branchlets freely rebranched, slender, lax, even the 
young green apical portion glabrous. Leaves descending, 
nearly flat, the abruptly acuminate tips recurved, alternate, 
widely scattering, glabrous, pleasing green except the old 
