eens ne 
Avaver 25, 1914] A FascicLE or Norra Acusan Fics 2403 
much thinner, linear to oblong, 2 mm long; flowers nu- 
merous, apparently all fertile, sessile; perianth or involucral 
bracts 3, becoming free, somewhat unequal in size, similar 
in color shape and texture to those of the inner umbilical 
scales; seed ovary sessile, ovately elongated from the side 
view, flattened, 1.25 mm long, 0.75 mm wide, brown but 
with a broad much lighter brown margin, the short usually 
deciduous style lateral. 
Type specimen number 14062, A. D. E, Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct- 
ober, 1912. 
Collected in a humid densely forested sheltered depres- 
sion at 3500 feet altitude between the peaks of Duros and 
Cawilanan. This the Manobos also call “Cataupi” although 
it does not belong in that group. In a nearby place deep 
red fruits were seen on the ground and no doubt belong 
to this same species. Dedicated to O. F. Baker, professor of 
agronomy of the College of Agriculture at Los Baños. 
Related to Ficus tayabensis Elm. but leaves less than 
one half as large, not so tapering at the apex, nerves be- 
neath finely pubescent and not at all tessellately marked; our 
peduncles are provided with three very evident bracts. 
Group IX 
(Ficus ulmifolia Lam.) 
Ficus todayensis Elm. 
Field-note:—Erect medium siged tree; trunk at least 
2 feet thick, 35 feet high, branched from the middle or 
above it, terete except the wadded ground portion; main 
branches ascending, ultimately crookedly rebranched; twigs 
numerous and horizontally spreading; wood moderately tough, 
yellowish white tinged, conspicuously ringed, quite odorless 
and tasteless; bark smooth, gray and brown blotched, yel- 
lowish otherwise; leaves horizontal or descending, chartaceous, 
shallowly folded upon the upper darker green side, tips 
slightly recurved; figs solitary or in axillary pairs, soft but 
smooth when in the soft flayus state, globose or nearly so 
or obscurely obovoid, 0.75 inch across. ‘‘Hagosihis,” is the 
Manobo vernacular name, 
