2398 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [VoL. VII, Arr. 112 
dark green blades, submembranous, entire, elliptically elonga- 
ted, curing dull brown on both sides, base broadly obtuse 
or obtusely rounded, the larger ones terminal and 2.5 dm 
long by 8 to 10 cm wide; midrib whitish beneath even in 
the dry state, shining, smooth; lateral nerves ascending, 9 
to 11 pairs, the cross bars and fine reticulations inconspic- 
uous; petiole less than 1 em long, stout, glabrate; bud bract 
dark brown when dry, folded or imbricate, glabrous, 2.5 cm 
long, very slenderly pointed. 
Receptacles hard, luteus to aurantiacus, perfectly globose, 
less than 1 cm in diameter, much smaller in the dry state, sol- 
itary or in pairs from the leaf axils, upon short greenish 
recurved peduncles, ebracteate; umbilicus flattened on top, 
circular, 3 mm across, the central portion raised, glabrous, 
imbricately guarded with short but broad bracts; the inner 
group of bracts extending toward the center of the fruit, 2 
to 3 mm long, tapering from the base to apex, thinner in 
texture; florets apparently all fertile, those in the upper re- 
gion subtended by similar bracts, with brown intermixed 
sterile flowers, all in the young state enveloped by a trans- 
parent perianth; pedicel 0.5 to 1 mm long, submembranous; 
seed surrounded by a thin lighter brown membrane, 1.25 
mm long or less, 0.75 mm across, ovoidly ellipsoid; style 
slender, averaging 1.5 mm long, arising from the upper side 
of the seeded ovary, the lower portion transparent, that of 
the apex dark reddish brown, usually contiguous in the early 
state. 
Type specimen number 12845, A. D. E. Elmer, Puerto 
Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Island of Palawan, March, 1911. 
Sprawling over a huge bowlder in a creek bed whose 
sloping banks are densely wooded or forested at about 
1500 feet altitude. Named with pleasure after Mr. and Mrs. 
T. J. Driver of Balabac. 
In one of my previous articles I doubtfully reported 
this new species under Ficus confusa Elm. 
Ficus confusa Elm. 
Field-note for 13777:—Epiphytic and subscandent; main 
branches few, widely spreading, freely rebranched; twigs lax, 
