AvcusT 25, 1914] A FascicrE or Norta Acusan Fies 2399 
drooping, branchlets covered with smooth yellowish gray bark; 
wood white, with a yellowish pith, rather soft; leaves char- 
taceous, folded, tips recurved, shining and deeper green above, 
the midvein whitish on the nether side; figs in small lat- 
eral clusters, hard and globose, dark green but turning yel- 
lowish, with minute white spots. "''Gigatgitnon" is the Ma- 
nobo name for 13777 and ''Nanlobayon"' for number 13475. 
Represented by numbers 13777 and 13475, Elmer, Ca- 
badbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, 
August and September, 1912. 
Both of these are reported as epiphytes; the former 
number in the humid forests along the Dalahion creek at 
3000 feet altitude, the latter on the wooded ridge between 
Duros and Cawilanan peaks at about the same elevation. 
Ficus propinqua Merr. 
Field-note:—Scandent upon small stems up to 15 feet high; 
stems loosely looping, 1 inch or more thick, subterete, crooked, 
numerously branched at the top; wood bendable, whitish 
and with a large pith, a trifle sweet, odorless; bark yel- 
lowish gray, brown lenticelled, with an abundance of latex; 
branches slender, sparingly rebranched, interlaced; leaves 
horizontal or mainly descending, flat, much deeper green 
above, rigidly chartaceous, gradually recurved at the apex, mar- 
gins shallowly concave on the lower side; fruits 0.5 inch in 
diameter, upon yellowish green stalks, hard, dark green and 
densely covered with minute milk spots especially toward 
the sunken apex, in pairs from the leaf axils or in small 
lateral groups. ‘‘Sawad’’ is the Manobo name. 
Represented by number 13563, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, August, 1912. 
. In moist more or less rocky ground of a steep densely 
forested incline at 3500 feet height of Duros peak. 
Ficus flavo-cortica Elm. 
Field-note:—Shrub 15 feet high and with a 6 inches thick 
stem; branches arising from near the base, quite long; wood 
concentrically marked, soft, odorless and without taste; bark 
