10 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
GuateMALA: Gual4n, Department of Zacapa, alt. 122 meters, December, 1905, 
Kellerman 5009 (N). Berberena, Department of Santa Rosa, alt. 1,000 
meters, November, 1893, Heyde & Lux (J. D. Smith, no. 6235) (N, F, G). 
Casillas, Department of Santa Rosa, alt. 1,300 meters, May, 1893, Heyde & 
Luz (J. D. Smith, no. 4587) (N, G). Laguna Amatitlan, Department of 
Amatitl4n, alt. 1,170 meters, March, 1890, J. D. Smith 1945 (N, G). Cubil- 
quitz, March, 1913, von Tiirckheim 4081 (N). 
Honpuras: Shore of Tela River, near Puerto Sierra, January, 1903, Wilson 
75 (N). 
Ex Satvapor: Without definite locality, Renson 27 (N). 
Costa Rica: Taboga, January, 1913, Jiménez 789 (N). 
Panama: Along Rio Dupf, eastern Chiriquf, near sea level, December, 1911, 
Pittier 2539 (N). Along Rio Faté, Province of Colén, alt. 10 to 100 meters, 
1911, Pittier 3880 (N). Hospital grounds at Ancén, July, 1911, Pittier 3953 
(N). Monte Lirio, Gatiin River, Canal Zone, July, 1911, Goldman 1856 (N). 
Cotomsia: Santa Marta, alt. 660 meters, H. H. Smith 1457 (N, G, F), 2663 (N). 
San Martin de Loba, Department of Bolivar, 1916, Curran 6 (N). 
Known in El Salvador as “‘amate de hijo grande.”’ 
There is little doubt that the specimens cited belong to Kunth’s species. Whether 
that is the same as Martius’s Ficus anthelmintica is not certain, in spite of the fact 
that Miquel considered them identical. At any rate, the specific name used by 
Martius is a homonym and not available. 
Ficus anthelmintica was reported by Liebmann! from Veracruz. Whether the spec- 
imens so determined belong to F. glabrata can not be ascertained without an exam- 
ination of his material. 
6. Ficus mexicana Miquel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3: 299. 1867. 
Pharmacosycea mexicana Miquel, Versl. Med. Kon. Akad. Amsterdam 13: 416. 
1862. 
Large tree; bark pale brownish or yellowish; young branches stout, brown or dull 
grayish brown, usually glabrous but sometimes sparsely puberulent, the epidermis 
very tardily if at all exfoliating; stipules nearly linear, 3.5 to 10 cm. long, attenuate, 
green, glabrous; petioles stout or slender, 1.2 to 3.5 cm. long, scaberulo-puberulent 
or glabrous, canaliculate; leaf blades oval, elliptic-oval, or elliptic-oblong, broadest 
at or slightly below the middle, 8 to 20 cm. long, 2.8 to 8 cm. wide, obtuse at the base 
and 3-nerved, not at all emarginate, gradually narrowed to the acute or subacuminate 
apex, subcoriaceous, glaucous green, scaberulous on both surfaces or finally glabrate, 
the lateral veins prominent beneath, 12 to 17 on each side, slender, divergent at an 
angle of about 70 degrees, parallel, nearly straight, laxly anastomosing near the 
margin, the veinlets very inconspicuous; peduncles solitary, 3 to 8 mm. long, glabrous 
or nearly so; involucre very small; receptacles sometimes conspicuously stipitate, 
globose, about 2 cm. in diameter, spotted, sparsely scaberulous when young but 
soon glabrate; ostiole prominent, very small, closed by broad, obtuse, dark brown 
scales; sepals ferruginous. 
Typ LocALIty: Mexico. Type collected by Schiede. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
San Luis Potosi: River banks, Tamasopo, December, 1891, a tree 15 to 18 meters 
high, Pringle 5067 (G). River banks, Micos, a tree 18 to 21 meters high, 
July, 1891, Pringle 5108 (G). Rascén, June, 1905, Palmer 679 (F, C). 
SINALOA: Villa Unién, April, 1910, Rose, Standley & Russell 13924 (N), 13905 (N). 
Guadalupe, April, 1910, Rose, Standley & Russell 14772 (N). Culiacdn, 
April, 1910, Rose, Standley & Russell 14911 (N). 
1 Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Skrivt. V. 2: 331. 1851. 
