2402 teavuite de PHiLtPPIME BoranY (Von. Vit, Ade. 113 
Type specimen ñúniber 13328, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindatiao, July, 
1912. 
i Collected in wet fine gtavelly washed down soil near 
stream beds in cool densely shaded woods at 750 feet above 
the level of the sea. ‘‘Delacit’’ is its Manobo name. 
Differs from Ficus microsphaeria Warb. in its hispidulous 
twigs and leaves. 
Ficus bakeri Elm. n. èp. 
A lofty tree climber; stem 5 to 8 ém thick, numefously 
branched toward the top; wood whitish or reddish brown 
tinged toward the centér, porous} brariches freely rebranched 
and forming tangled miasses; twigs relatively short, ascend- 
` ingly curved, flexible, brownish even so in the wrinkled dry 
state, glabfate. Leaves horizontal or descending, slightly re- 
curved toward the apex, otherwise flat, gubcHartáceous, very 
dark green on the upper glabrate surface, much paler green 
beneath, curing similarly dark brown on both sides, the low- 
er surface minutely gfayish white punctate and tht nerves 
finely pubescent, the entire margins somewhat curved upon 
the nether side, apex obtusely rounded, base broadly round? 
ed, alternatingly scattered along the branchlets, ovate tO 
ovately elliptic, the average blades 5.5 cm long by 4 cm 
wide a trifle below the middle; petiole 1 ¢m long or less, 
brown, glabrate, caniculate along the upper side} midrib sim- 
ilar in color when diy, conspicuous beneath and in thé 
tarly state finely pubescent, plane on the upper side; lat 
éral nerves 3 to 4 paira, ascendingly curved especially to* 
ward the distal ends, in color prominence and pubescence 
similar to the midrib, cross reticulations coarse, not evident 
from the uppet side; bud braét éonieal, 5 mm long, sub- 
cinereotis. 
Receptacles chiefly in the fallen leaf axils, short ellip- 
soid or subglobose, yellowish green, glabrous; peduncle 
thick, yellowish brown, short pubescent, terminated by 3 
blunt bracts; umbilicus with a slightly raised rim, a trifle 
sunken in the middle; the external scales short and 
broad, horizontal, imbricate; the inner ones reddish brown, 
Ei Sie 
