2414 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vorn. VIL, Arr. 112 
pletely enveloping the short ovately elliptic nearly sessile 
anther; pistillate flowers 1.5 mm long, short stipitate, the 
ovary nearly lateral and usually obovoidly compressed, bear- 
ing a short style with a flattened stigma, the 3  perianth | 
segments relatively small and attached to the base of the d: 
ovary. i 
Type specimen number 14170, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- | 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oct- 
ober, 1912. 
In alluvial wet soil bordering the forested lake Danao 
region at 5000 feet altitude. The Manobo name is ''Tabog." 
Most closely allied to Ficus curranii Merr., which is 
another high alpine species. 
Ficus carpenteriana Elm. 
Field-note:—A shrub-like tree; stem 6 inches thick, main- 
ly branched from below the middle, the ultimate ones slender 
and widely spreading; bark smoothish, greenish gray, red- 
dish beneath the epidermis and with white latex; leaves paler 
green beneath, slightly recurved, tips much recurved, nerves 
prominent and yellowish beneath; figs mostly axillary although 
occasionally clustered along the stem and larger branches, 
subsessile, very dark green, slightly compressed, irregular in 
shape and with milk spots, the umbilicus stellately crowned, 
usually covered with fine fuzzy brown hairs; florets pale 
or yellowish white. ''Tabog?" in Manobo. 
Represented by number 13261, Elmer, Cabadbaran (Mt. 
Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, July, 1912. 
Inhabiting damp humus covered soil along a wooded 
ridge of Giwantanan knoll at 1000 feet altitude. 
Le 
Group XV 
(Ficus crassitora Elm.) 
Ficus apoensis Elm, 
Field-note:—Rather large sized trees; bole straight, terete, 
2.5 feet in diameter, 50 feet high, mainly branched toward 
the top; wood prominently ringed, the sappy white portion 
with semiviscid sulphureus sap, pith aurantiacus; bark smooth- 
