2406 LEAFLETS or PAILIPPINE BOTANY (Vor. VII, Amr 119 
der and drooping in order to expose their leaf surfaces; wood 
soft, whitish, odorless and nearly tasteless; bark greenish 
gray, smooth; leaves chartaceous, descending, extremely vari- 
able in size, the longer ones terminal, paler green beneath; 
figs erect, single or in small axillary groups, upon short | 
yellowish red stalks, ovoidly globose, 0.5 inch in diameter, | 
the basal portion yellow, reddish toward the exposed apex l 
through which the similarly colored umbilical bracts protrude, 
Called "Perai" by the Manobos, 
Represented by number 13315, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt, 
Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 1912. 
Inhabiting moist gravelly soil of a densely wooded bank 
of the Catangan creek at 1000 feet altitude. 
In the herbarium, Bureau of Science, is a specimen 
marked Ficus hemicardia Merr. which seems very closely re» 
lated to this very variable species. , 
Those species of our figs with slender descending or 
nearly drooping twigs have their larges leaves terminal and | 
always pendant. The peduncle of a number of Philippine á 
species always turns the color of the ripe receptacle or 
syconium. In my original description there is mention made 
of the great variation in the size of its leaves and the 
distribution of its figs—oceuring in the leaf axils, on the 
branches, along the stem and even upon exposed roots. There 
are other figs in our archipelago with a similar range of 
fruit distribution, 
Ficus sibuyanensis Elm. 
Field-note:—A rather small suberect tree; stem 3 inohes 
thick, terete but crooked, 25 feet high, branched above the 
middle; bark smooth and brown, grayish mottled on the 
branches, yellowish white except the epidermis; wood quite 
soft, heavy, yellowish tinged throughout, concentrically ringed, 
odorless and tasteless or nearly so; main branches spreading, 
very numerously rebranched, the short twigs suberect; leaves 
ascending, flat but tips strongly recurved, paler green be- 
neath; figs axillary, subpendant, solitary or in pairs, rough 
and flavus on the under side, red on the upper or expose 
ed portion, soft, smooth and vinosus on the tree when fully 
