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~ "v." Ficus anipelas Burm. 
‘i, Ste Field-note:—Shrub” 10 feet. high and with. a few inches 
| y A stem; 'bark" mottled, covering ‘the soft and dingy white 
E.—-. v Wood; branches numerously rebranched, the ultimate ones 
F . 5 5 5 descending; foliage copious, mostly horizontal and with re- 
. curved tips, paler heneath, ` petiole usually scurfy brown, 
blades: chartaceous; figs green, 0.5 inch, thick, globose or 
n Umbilicus slightly raised; florets water white. In Manobo it 
i + ds called “Soso-dalago.” ` ' ee : 
+ 3 Represented by number 138160, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
TS Urdaneta); Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 1912. 
i i | In stony ‘ground of banks of the Catangan creek at 1000 
“ > — feet altitude. Its fruits are rather large and ¡in most other 
' ~ lopalities it is reported as a tree. E 
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. Ficus areneta Elm. 
: Field-note:—A tree-like shrub; stem usually more than 
w 1 foot thick near the ground, otherwise 6 to 10 inches only, 
crooked and irregular, 15 to 25 feet high; branches arising 
from -below the middle, widely ‘spreading and recurved, re- 
branched. all along, ‘the slender twigs descending or droop- 
ing; bark smooth, mottled; wood soft, whitish, odorless, 
. , Sweetish, with prominent concentric rings, branchlets ascend- 
i ing, hispid; foliage horizontal ‘or descending, casting a good 
: shade, flat, chartaceous, paler henéath, the young and ter- 
-minal ones very large; figs along stem and larger branches, 
clustered, upon short rigid woody tubercles, hanging upon 
yellowish green flexible pedyncles, flatly globose, 1 inch across, 
yellowish when mature, the 'browy umbilicys forming a small 
cup. "'Pele" in Manobo. ` — 
- Represented by number 13321, Elmer, Cabadharan (Mt. 
Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 1912. 
Quite commonly scattered in very damp fertile soil of 
wooded flats at 500 feet aboye the sea. 
Ficus fiskej Elm. 
Field-note:—Lax undershrub, suberect or sprawling; stem 
1.5 inches thick, 10 feet high or long, branched from near 
the base, repeatedly rebranched, the ultimate ones very slen- 
