MORACEAE X75 



In dry thickets, occasional, fl. all the year; widely distributed in the 

 Philippines. Kndemic. 



6. FIcus hauli Blanco. Hauili (Tag.); Lagnob (Vis.). 



An erect shrub or small tree, 3 to 8 m high, glabrous or '..e young shoots 

 more or less pubescent. Leaves oblong-ovate to eUiptic-ovate, smooth and 

 shining, glabrous, not at all roughened, 10 to 20 cm long, apex rather 

 sharply acuminate, base acute, nerves prominent, 10 to 12 pairs. Re- 

 ceptacles axillary, solitary, depressed-globose or turbinate, obscurely ridged ■ 

 or angled, 1.5-to 2 cm in diameter, shortly peduncled. 



In thickets, occasional, fl. all the year; throughout the Philippines at 

 low altitudes. Endemic. 



7. F. stipulosa Miq. (F. caulobotrya Miq.). Balete (Tag.). 



A deciduous tree 6 to 10 m high, starting as an epiphyte, glabrous 

 throughout. Leaves smooth, glabrous and shining, oblong, acuminate, base 

 usually rounded, entire, 12 to 20 cm long, the petioles 5 to 7 cm in length, 

 the nerves spreading, distant, not prominent. Stipules membranaceous, 

 pink, oblong, about 8 cm long, falling soon after the new leaves appear. Re- 

 ceptacles solitary, in pairs, or in fascicles in the axils of the leaves and in 

 the axils of fallen leaves on the ultimate branchlets, short-pedicelled, 

 globose, often in great abundance, about 6 mm in diameter, 3-bracteate at 

 the base. 



Old Botanic Garden, fl. June-July and probably in other months; widely 

 distributed in the Philippines. Endemic. 



*F. ELASTICA Roxb. India-rubber Tree. 



A spreading, glabrous tree reaching a height of 10 m, normally starting 

 as an epiphyte, sending down numerous adventitious roots from the trunk 

 and larger branches. Leaves very coriaceous, smooth and shining, elliptic- 

 oblong, sharply and slenderly acuminate, 16 to 25 cm long, entire, the 

 nerves very numerous, dense, parallel; stipules deciduous, membranaceous, 

 usually red, often as long as the leaves. Receptacles axillary, usually in 

 pairs, sessile, smooth, greenish-yellow, about 1 cm long, oblong-ovoid. 



Not uncommon in cultivation, fl. Jan.-March; in most large towns in the 

 Philippines. Introduced from India. 



9. F. benjamlna L. Balete (Tag.). 



A strangling fig, assuming a tree-form and reaching a height of 16 

 m or more, quite glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, 6 to 10 cm long, oblong- 

 ovate, prominently and rather slenderly acuminate, quite entire, base 

 rounded, smooth, green and shining, the nerves slender, spreading, not 

 prominent; petioles 6 to 10 mm long. Fruits axillary, Solitary, sessilQ, 

 dark-purple and flesHy when mature, subglobose, about 1 cm in diameter. 



Along streams, Masambong to San Francisco del Monte, occasional, in 

 fruit Feb.-Apr.; widely distributed in the Philippines. India to. Malaya. 



10. F. Indica L. Balete (Tag.). 



An erect, glabrous shrub or tree 4 to 12 m high, starting as an epiphyte, 

 strangling its supporting host and assuming a tree-form. Leaves coriar 

 ceous 5 to 12 cm long, shining, snfooth, elliptic-ovate, entire, narrowed at 

 both ends, base acute or somewhat rounded, more or less 3-nerved, apex 

 acute or acuminate, the acumen sometimes blunt, the petioles 6 to 12 mm 

 long, the primary nerves usually about 6 pairs, the secondary ones some- 

 times nearly as prominent and more numerous. Receptacles globose. 



