2100 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY (VoL. VII, Arr. 112 
smooth, dull brown except the slightly red inner and latex 
ċontaining portion; branches laxly rebranched, drooping, tough; 
leaves descending, chartaceous, much paler beneath, apex 
recurved; fruits single or in small clústers, axillary or in 
. the axils of the fallen leaves along the branchlets, 0.33 
inch in diameter, soft and sulphureus when ripe, roughened 
with similarly colored lenticels; seeds yellowish, the inner 
side of the syconium reddish, umbilicus sunken. **Agopid”” 
in Manobo. 
Represented by number 13381, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 1912. 
Inhabiting moist stony soil along the densely wooded 
Catangan creek at 1250 feet elevation. 
Appearing more distinct in the field than in the her- 
barium from Ficus celebica Blm. 
Ficus mindanaensis Warb. | 
Field-note:—4A tough climber; stem 1.5 inches thick, 
terete, bendable, looping or loosely twining, branched toward 
the top; wood soft, sappy white, slightly sweet; bark smooth, 
grayish white, dark green beneath the epidermis, sappy white 
next the wood; branches widely sprawling, the free ends drooping, 
repeatedly short branched; leaves descending, shallowly curved 
upon the upper smooth surface, tips strongly recurved, quite 
rigid and chartaceous, paler green beneath; figs solitary or 
few clustered, pendant from the very flexible stalks, umbil- 
ieus crater-like, at least 0.5 inch in diameter, globose, deep 
ruber red or purplish even the stalks. The natives or Ma- 
. nobos call it ‘*‘Dalakit.’’ 
Represented hy number 13579, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, August, 1912. 
Found climbing upon a small tree on the sides of a 
sparsely wooded cliff 50 feet above the Minusuang river at 
about 750 feet altitude. 
Eight years ago the writer collected and reported this same 
species from Leyte where in the valley flats it grew to be 
a low spreading tree. Its green and parchment-like leaves 
with soft and yellowish nerved lower side, coupled with 
its rather large candy red to purplish and marble round 
