2410 LEAFLETs OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. VII, Arr. 112 
Ficus adami Elm. 
Field-note:—Very large tree; trunk 4 feet through, 60 
or more feet high, its main branches from the middle or 
below it, subterete, somewhat crooked; large main branches y 
ascending but soon horizontally spreading, ultimately nu- 
merously rebranched; trunk divided at base into buttressed 
prop roots; wood with a faint sweet taste and odor, soft, 
conspicuously ringed, dingy white; bark yellowish and dense- 
ly covered with transverse brown colored excrescences, the 
middle portion isabellinus, the soft inner side sappy white, | 
the under side of the epidermis light yellow; twigs relatively | 
short, suberect; leaves horizontal, coriaceous, curved upon the 
upper deep green and shining surface, much lighter green and 
duller beneath; veins greenish white; figs in pairs and axil- 
lary, divaricate or descending, upon flattened pale green stalks, 
pale green when falling but turning yellow on the ground, 
spotted with light green papillae, 0.8 inch long, irregularly r 
subglobose or short ellipsoid, the 3 green subtending bracts 
very small. ''Baleti" in Manobo. 
Represented by number 14029, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, October, 1912. 
Rediscovered in a densely forested humid flat along the 
Catangan creek at 3000 feet altitude. A most characteristic 
species and our tree was heavily loaded with fruits which 
were constantly falling and covering the ground, 
Group XIII 
(Ficus integrifolia Elm.) 
Ficus integrifolia Elm. q 
Field-note:—A suberect shrub; stem 3 inches thick, 10 to 
15 feet high, terete, branched from below the middle; wood - 
white, soft and pulpy, pith large and similarly colored; 
bark grayish green, smooth, the middle and inside brownish, 
with latex; branchlets lax, widely spreading, the twigs 
descending and their tips usually ascendingly curved; leaves 
very smooth, upon ascending dull green petioles, nearly flat, 
