green on both sides, dry parechnent-like, flat er curved 
upon the lower side; infrutescence 1 yard long, aseeni« 
ingly reourved, in the young State enclosed in Bpinescent 
sheath 1 foot long, pele green, end usuelly severed with 
a Seurfty brown; “Serancy." pPruit oveidly globose, or 
seorme~like, grecn exeept the light aray apieal portion, 
less then 1/2 inch thick; Brooke Point, March, 1911. 
12664, Ficus pisifere Well. Stoeky tree in wet 
$011 of woods bordering half mangrove swamps at 20 feet 
altitude; trunk 11/2 foot thick, 25 feet high, branched 
from below the middle, rather erceked, not terete; branches 
widely spreading, the ultimate ones rather slender and not 
numerous; wood yellowish white, moderately seft, odorless, 
nearly testeless, concentric ringe conspicuous; bark | 
esmoothish, yellowi#h blotehed, freely bleeding with latex; 
leaves ehorteceous horizontal and recurved, dork green 
above, paler beneath, nearly flat; fies in fascicles, 
ehiefly along the branchlets, hard, yellow exeept the 
greenish apiesl portion, the inside whitish exeept the 
pink tiped umbilical seales, very numerous; “Cayoyobang." 
Brooke Point, Mareh, 1911, 
12665, Golura javanica Steph, Light er yellowish 
cireuler aesees seattered upon the upper surface of a 
Palmee at £0 fect altitude in very humid woois; branches 
closely attached te the leaf eurface, radially spreading, 
in the central portion forming dense masses; the fine 
Slight sscending leaflets thin and yellowish green; 
fruiting @eeks seattered in the econtral mass, erect, 
whitish; “Lemot.” SBreoke Point, February, 1911. 
12666, #Mallotus melucesnus Mell. Arg. Small tree 
in bleck demp 8011 of hwaid woods at 20 feet elevation 
noer 6 helt mangrove swamp; stem 1 feet thiek, ¢rooked, 
not terete, 30 feet high, wit) ite main branches towerd 
the top only; wood yellowish or @ingy white, odorless 
and teateless, moderately soft, light, fine for working; 
bark yellowish grey mottled; thingy cheeked longitudinally, 
yellow beneeth the epidermis; branches not numerous but 
widely spreading, the ultimate onere slenier, yellowish 
aray, the tip® suberect; leaves horizontally spreading, 
Subgeriaceous, folde@ upon the upper much darker green 
surface; inflorescence terminal, erect, ali the stelxs 
yellowish green and seurfy brown pubescent; flowers odor- 
less, Somewhst sucevlent; perisnth pale green on the upper 
surface, the lower similar te the Stelks; stamens light 
reamy yellow; fruit subpendvlows, strengly S<gonous, 
aveen, S-celled, less then 1/2 inch seross, flattened; 
"Girangen", Brooks Point, Pebruary, 1911. 
12669. Ficus merrittii Merr, ‘Short tree in black 
moiet 011 mixed with fine gravel of woods berderi ng ewampy 
pleces at 20 feet elevation; stem crooked, 1 1/2 foot thick, 
buttressed near the ground, branched from below the middie, 
20 fect high or higher; weed dirty white, soft, ringed; 
Without taste or oder; hark smoothish, mottled, freely 

