Avaeust 25, 1914] A FascicLe or NorTH Acusan Fias 2409 
Apparently related to Ficus ahernii Merr., in manuscript, 
and Ficus macropoda Mig. 
Group XII 
(Ficus infectoria Roxb.) 
Ficus infectoria caulocarpa (Miq.) King. 
Field-note: —Scandent along a large tree trunk up to 
30 feet where it apparently is branched into several long 
widely spreading and numerously rebranched limbs, the stem 
or that portion along its support is also branched and forms 
interlaced masses; wood soft, white, concentrically marked; 
bark gray, smooth, with latex; twigs flexible; leaves hori- 
zontally spreading, thinly coriaceous, shallowly folded above, 
tips strongly recurved, a trifle paler beneath; young figs 
erect, pale green, with bright red rather small umbilical 
tips. ''Balete" in Manobo. 
Represented by number 13471, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, August, 1912. 
. Collected in wooded flats at 750 feet above sea level and 
was noticed along the Catangan and Dalahion creeks at a 
much higher elevation. 
Ficus umbrina Elm. 
Field-note:—Tree-like yet cleaving about another tree with 
rope-like roots or suckers, main stem 10 inches thick, 25 
feet high or long, with branches nearly as long; wood soft, 
ringed, nearly odorless and tasteless; bark with latex, blotch- 
ed, lenticelled; the ultimate branches numerous, lax, somewhat 
drooping, smooth and brown; leaves similarly drooping, rigid- 
ly coriaceous, flat or nearly so except the tips, very green 
&bove; figs usually in pairs, creamy white but yet hard, 
greenish punctate, more or less irregular, the basal portion 
falsely stipitate, umbilicus well sunken; florets watery or pale 
white. This is also called ''Balete" by the Manobos. 
Represented by number 13279, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 1912, 
Upon a forested ridge at 1250. 
