7166. Ficus minahasese Miq. Quite common in the hill 
country, trees 8 meter ghigh, round topped branched from below 
the middle; figs small, angular, yellowish red, in capitate 
heads of the slencer subaphyllous numerously branched tuber- 
gles. Pelo, Leyte, January, 1906. 
7167. Ficus benguetense Merr. free 4 meters high; 
figs subglobose, hard, sihooth and usually elustered in the 
upper leef axils. Palo, Leyte, January, 1906. 
7168. Pieus forstenii Miq. Possibly ecandent when 
ybung but when 014 widely spreading; the 3 meter long trunk 
2 meters in dismeter and divided into 2 to 3 thick horizontally 
spreading limbs; leaves coriaceous and shining green above; 
figs usually in paire from the leaf axils, sessile, green, 
lemon yellow and finslly turning dark red and soft. Palo, 
Leyte, January, 1906. ; 
7169. Fieus eassidyana Sim. nh. sp. Smslil tree 6 meters 
high slong brooks of wooded ravines; bark grayish white, the 
younger bark covered with small lenticels; figs immature, the 
larger ones 11/2 inches in diameter upon short branched tuber- 
cles of the stem; very rare. Palo, hbeyte, January, 1906. 
7170.  Fieus villosa Blm. A tree climber, numerously 
branched; figs 1 to 3 alustered, in the leaf axils; not common. 
Palo, Leyte, January, 1906. 
mis Pious manilensis Yarb. in Perk. Fragm. Fl. Philip. 
$; 199, 1905. An 8 meter high spreading tree, usually on 
ary hillsides of the woods; bark finely checked; mature figs 
bluish red, the size of a small eherry, soft, sweet and edible. 
- Palo, Leyte, January, 1996. 
7172.  Pieus odorata (Blco) Merr. Spreading shrub or 
the larger ones tree_like; figs pubescent and yellowish red 
when mature, in the leaf axils or in the axils of their sears; 
leaves distichously erranged toward the «nds of the twigs. 
Palo, Leyte, January, 1906. 
7172." Wiens guyeri 2lm. n. sp. Laxly spreading shrub, 
on steep ravine slopes of the woods at 600 meters, rare; branches 
thin, slender; wood hard; bark smooth, brown with very little 
juice; fige small, 1 to 3 in the leaf axils or in the axils of 
their sears, upon subpendulous pefluncles, yellowish red when 
mature. 
7172.% Fieus epyeri Elm. n. sp. Shrub 3 meters high on 
steep canyon sides of thin woods at 300 meters; bark smooth, 
brown; wood hard (comparatively); branchlets numerous, slencer, 
lex; leaves subcoriseeous, usually descending; figs yellowish 
red when mature, axillar 1 to 3, upon slender recurved 
pedicels, rare.’ Palo, Léyte, Janumry, 1906. 

