8 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
2. Ficus radulina 8. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 26: 151. 1891. 
Large tree; branches yellowish, the younger ones very stout, densely pilose- 
sericeous with slender white hairs, the pubescence persistent, the epidermis tardily 
exfoliating; stipules nearly linear, 6 to 8 cm. long, attenuate, green, sericeous near 
the base, glabrous above; petioles stout or rather slender, 2 to 4.5 cm. long, sparsely 
hirtello-puberulent; leaf blades oblong, elliptic-oblong, or oval-elliptic, usually 
broadest at the middle but sometimes broadest slightly below the middle, 9 to 18 
cm. long, 3.5 to 8 cm. wide, obtuse or rounded and 5-nerved at the base, not at all 
emarginate, gradually acute at the apex, pale green, coriaceous, scaberulous on both 
surfaces or finally glabrate; peduncles solitary, stout, 3 to 5 mm. long, at first 
puberulent but soon glabrate; involucre very small, trilobate, the lobes rounded; 
receptacles globose, 1.5 to 2 cm. in diameter, spotted with light and deep green, at 
first densely scabrous or scabro-puberulent, finally glabrate; ostiole prominent, conic, 
closed by several thin brown obtuse scales. 
Type Locatiry: Hacienda San Miguel, near Batopilas, southwestern Chihuahua. 
Type collected by Palmer in 1885 (no. L). 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Curmuanva: Huerachic, April, 1893, Hartman 537 (N, G). Hacienda San 
Miguel, 1885, Palmer L (N, G, type). 
Sonora: Alamos, around a dwelling in the town, March, 1910, Rose, Standley & 
Russell 12937 (N); December, 1898, Goldman 283 (N, G); March or April, 
1890, Palmer 367 (N, G). Canyon in Sierra de Alamos, March, 1910, Rose, 
Standley & Russell 12992 (N). 
The native names are given as “nacapuli,” “higuera,’’ and “salate.’’ The fruit 
is edible. 
The species is very well marked by the densely pubescent young branches. 
3. Ficus tonduzii Standley, sp. nov. 
A large tree; young branches very stout, gray or brownish gray, glabrous; stipules 
narrowly triangular, long-attenuate, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, deciduous, green, thick, gla- 
brous; petioles very stout, 2 to 5 cm. long, subterete, sulcate, glabrous; leaf blades oval 
or obovate-oval, 12 to 24 cm. long, 6 to 12.5 cm. wide, rounded to broadly cuneate at 
the base, rounded or very obtuse at the apex and abruptly apiculate, the acumen 
broadly triangular and rounded at the apex, thick-coriaceous, glabrous on the upper 
surface, sublustrous, finely punctate, beneath scaberulous or in age glabrate, very 
prominently veined, the veins whitish beneath, the costa 2.5 to 4 mm. thick, the 
lateral veins very stout, about 10 on each side, divergent almost at right angles, nearly 
straight, anastomosing to form a coarse submarginal vein, the veinlets rather promi- 
nent, coarsely reticulate; receptacles subglobose, 2 to 2.5 cm. in diameter, scaberulous; 
ostiole closed by several suberect obtuse thin brown scales; bractlets very small, 
rounded; stamens 2. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 678727, collected at La Gloria de Juan 
Vifias, Costa Rica, altitude 800 to 900 meters, June 4 or 5, 1911, by H. Pittier (no. 
3665). 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Costa Rica: Bois du Tremedal, prés San Ramon, alt. 1,300 to 1,400 meters, 
April, 1918, Tonduz 17658 (N, F). P&turages de Las Vueltas, alt. 635 meters, 
December, 1898, Tonduz 12869 (N). Gudpiles, Llanuras de Santa Clara, alt. 
200 meters, April, 1894, J. D. Smith 4935 (N, G). 
CoLomsBia: Santa Marta, alt. 1,200 meters, H. H. Smith 1453 (N, G, F). 
The species is a very distinct one, easily recognized among our other members of 
the subgenus Pharmacosyce by the very large, coriaceous leaves with coarse, heavy 
venation. All of the several receptacles of the Costa Rican specimens cited above 
are detached from the stems; consequently it is impossible to be certain whether they 
are sessile or pedunculate, but they are probably pedunculate. 
