Se EE 
Avausr 25, 1914] A FascicLe or Norta AGusaNn Firas 2413 
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creek flat at 3500 feet altitude. The Manobo name is 
*'Maeabotoay.?? 
Apparently not matched yet approaching Ficus confusa 
Elm. The latter number was erroneously distributed as Ficus 
inaequifolia Elm. ! 
Ficus urdanetensis Elm. n. sp. 
Suberect tree-like shrub; stem 1 dm thick, terete, crooked, 
5 to 7 m high, branched from the middle; wood white, 
soft and pulpy, odorless and without taste, pith large; bark 
smooth, brown, easily stripping along the branches; branch- 
lets numerous, lax, horizontally spreading, terete in the dry 
state, dull brown and finely hispid when young. Leaves 
similarly spreading, coriaceous, flat, alternate, the abruptly 
recurved tips lighter green on the minutely grayish punct- 
ate nether side, basal portion more or less inequilateral and 
obtusely rounded, entire, drying dull brown on both sides, 
glabrous except the minutely hispid nerves beneath, obovate- 
ly oblong, the larger blades 1.5 dm long by 5.5 cm 
wide above the middle, the young leaves red and erect or 
suberect; petiole 1 to 1.5 cm long, stout, caniculate above, 
strigose when young, also dark brown when dry; midrib 
edged beneath, plane above; lateral nerves 8 to 10 pairs, 
ascending and curved, tips united especially of the upper 
pairs, reddish brown and sparsely pubescent, cross bars 
faint; bud bracts glabrous, 7 mm long, caducous. 
Receptacles solitary or in axillary pairs, ascending, obó- 
voidly globose, greatly varying in size and shape, shining 
pale green, sprinkled with brownish lenticels, 1 to 1.25 cm 
long, subsessile or more commonly upon 2 to 3 mm long 
green and glabrous stalks which at the distal end bear 3 
glabrous broadly rounded bracts; umbilicus excavated, the rim 
thick and coarsely rugose, more or less strigose in the sun- 
ken region; external scales crustaceous, horizontally imbricat- 
ed; the inner scales thinner, 1.25 mm long, brown except 
the subhyaline finely ciliated margins, ovately oblongish; 
male flowers concealed among the less numerous inner umbilical 
bracts, than 1 mm long, upon a short thick pedicel, ovoidly com- 
pressed and obscurely curved, monandrous; perianth com- 
