Mese t 
Attddst 25, 1914] A Fasdictit of NomrH Acusan Fids 
mature. ‘‘Hagopitan’’? is the vernacular Manobo name. 
Kepresénted by number 18719, Almer, Cabadbaran (Mt, 
Urdaneta), Province of Agusan; Mindanao, September, 1912: 
Collected in gd ground of woods in the saddle bes 
tween Duros and Cawilanan peaks at 3500 feet altitude, 
Group X 
(Ficus gigantifolia Merr.) 
Ficus gigantifolia Mefr. 
Field-note:—A medium sided tree; trünk 2 feet thick, 
35 feet high, terete, crooked, with main branches from the 
middle; wood dingy white, odorless and without taste, very 
soft; bark very dark brown, lenticelled or exctescent, thick, 
with abündant latex, yellowish extept the epidermis; main 
branches few and ascending, only sparingly rebranched} leaves 
alternatingly crowded toward the ends of the ascendingly 
curvéd and 0.5 to 0.75 of an inch thick twigs, mostly 
horizontal, subeoriaceous, flat, much deeper green beneath} 
figs usually in pairs from the leaf axils, globose, 1 inch 
thick, hatd, shining green and with whitish spots, when 
fully ripe on the tree soft and vinosus, sessile, normally 
subtended by 3 slenderly acuminately pointed green bracts; 
florets red, the umbilicus covered by 3 small and thick 
bracts. ‘‘Latbangan’’ in Manobo. 
Represented by number 13348, Almer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 1912. 
Collected in wet rocky ground along the densely wooded 
Catangan creek at 1250 feet altitude. 
Group Xt 
(Ficus macropoda Mtg.) 
Ficus fulva Elm. n. sp 
An alpine forest tree climber} stem 3.5 er thick, te- 
rete, bendable; wood porous, covered with gray and brown 
blotched and smooth bark; branches rigid, forming more or 
less interlaced masses toward the top, the young portion of 
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