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DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES. 
1. Ficus glaucescens (Liebm.) Miquel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 8: 300. 1867. 
Pharmacosycea glaucescens Liebm. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Skrivt. V. 2: 332. 1851. 
Pharmacosycea hernandezit Liebm. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Skrivt. V. 2: 332. 1851. 
Pharmacosycea rigida Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald 195. 1854, not Ficus rigida Jack, 1822. 
Urostigma protensum Griseb. Bonplandia 1858: 4. 1858. 
Pharmacosycea pseudoradula Miquel, Versl. Med. Kon. Akad. Amsterdam 138: 414. 
1862. 
Ficus pseudoradula Miquel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3: 299. 1867. 
Ficus hernandezii Miquel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3: 300. 1867. 
Ficus coybana Miquel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3: 300. 1867. 
Ficus protensa Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 3: 147. 1883. 
Ficus guadalajarana S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 26: 151. 1891. 
Large or small tree; young branches brown, at first pilose or puberulent but the 
epidermis soon exfoliating, leaving them glabrous; stipules lance-triangular, 1 to 2 cm. 
long, long-attenuate, puberulent near the base or glabrate; petioles stout, 8 to 23 mm. 
long, densely pilose or puberulent at first but soon glabrous and ferruginous, subterete, 
shallowly canaliculate; leaf blades oval-oblong or obovate-oval, 8 to 23.5 cm. long, 
4 to 11.5 cm. wide, obtuse or rounded at the base, sometimes subemarginate, 3 or 
5-nerved, rounded or very obtuse at the apex or usually abruptly and obtusely apicu- 
late, scaberulous or glabrate on the upper surface, beneath hirtellous or short-pilose, 
the lateral veins prominent beneath, 7 to 12 on each side, divaricate-ascending, nearly 
straight or arcuate, irregularly anastomosing near the margin, the veinlets loosely 
reticulate, not very conspicuous; peduncles solitary, 0.5 to 2 cm. long, stout, densely 
short-pilose; involucre very small, trilobate, the lobes rounded; receptacles sub- 
globose, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. in diameter, densely short-pilose or hirtellous with white hairs. 
TYPE LocaLity: Mecapalco and Potrerode Consoquintla, Veracruz. Type collected 
by Liebmann. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Jauisco: Barranca near Guadalajara, October, 1889, Pringle 2947 (G,' type of 
F’, guadalajarana). 
SrnaLoa: Foothills of the Sierra Madre near Plomosas, July, 1897, Rose 1767 (N). 
Oaxaca: Vicinity of Cuicatlin, alt. 540 to 750 meters, October, 1894, Nelson 
1684 (N, G). 
Micwoackn: Hacienda Coahuayula, February, 1901, Emrick 44 (F). 
Veracruz: Valley of Cérdoba, April, 1866, Bourgeau 2249 (G). 
GuaTEMALA: Rio Ocosito, Department of Quezaltenango, alt. 100 meters, April, 
1892, J. D. Smith 2602 (N, G). 
Nicaraaua: Chinandega, on stream banks, January, 1903, C. F. Baker 583 (N). 
Panama: Around Culebra, Canal Zone, alt. 50 to 150 meters, January, 1911, 
Pittier 2211 (N). Hospital grounds at Ancén, February, 1911, Pittier 
2728 (N). 
All the specimens cited above agree in having pubescent leaf blades and recep- 
tacles. They show a rather wide variation in leaf outline, but not more than may 
be expected within a species. 
The type of Pharmacosycea hernandeziit was collected at Papantla, Veracruz, by 
Liebmann. That of P. rigida, a homonym later replaced by Ficus coybana, was ob- 
tained by Seemann on the island of Coyba, off the Pacific coast of Panama. 
Urostigma protensum was based upon material collected in Panama by Duchassaing. 
The type of Ficus guadalajarana was from Guadalajara, Jalisco. 
1 The letters in parentheses indicate the herbaria in which the specimens cited are 
found, as follows: N, United States National; G, Gray; F, Field Museum of Natural 
History; OC, University o! California. 
