12 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Yucatan: Chichen Itz4, 1901, Goldman 552 (N, F). Puerto Morelos, in and 
along mangrove swamps, March, 1901, Goldman 614 (N, F). 
Costa Rica: Forests about Nicoya, January, 1900, Yonduz 13718 (N). Rfo 
Maravilla, Alajuela, alt. 925 meters, Jiménez 538 (N). Moin Hill, near Limon, 
June, 1898, Pittier 12403 (N). Taboga, January, 1913, Jiménez 798 (N). 
Panama: Vicinity of Penonomé, 1908, Williams 251 (N). Chepo, Province of 
Panama, alt. 60 meters, October, 1911, Pittter 4757 (N). 
CotomBiA: Santa Marta, alt. 75 meters, H. H. Smith 1456 (N, G, F). 
VENEZUELA: Bobures, November, 1914, Jahn 361 (N). 
Warburg! reports the species also from Trinidad and Surinam. 
The species of the subgenus Pharmacosyce are very closely related. ‘the material 
at hand is not so ample as might be desired, and the writer suspects that, with a larger 
series of specimens, some of the species here recognized will have to be reduced to 
synonymy. The amount of pubescence on the leaf blades, which has been depended 
upon for separating the species, is not improbably an unreliable character. 
8. Ficus crassiuscula Warb. sp. nov. in herb. 
Large tree with rounded crown; young branches stout, brown, glabrous or minutely 
puberulent; stipules linear-oblong, 4 to 6 cm. long, 6 mm. wide at the base, long- 
acuminate, green or dark brown, coriaceous, glabrous, or puberulent near the base; 
petioles 2.5 to 4cm. long, stout, glabrous; leaf blades oblong-obovate, broadly obovate- 
elliptic, or oval, 10.5 to 23 cm. long, 5 to 11 cm. wide. obtuse or rounded at the base, 
rounded at the apex or very obtuse, coriaceous, glabrous, often lustrous on the upper 
surface, the costa stout, the lateral veins conspicuous beneath, 14 to 22 on each side, 
divergent at an angle of 60 to 85 degrees, arcuately anastomosing near the margin, the 
veinlets inconspicuous; peduncles solitary, 2 cm. long, stout, glabrous; involucre 
small, trilobate, the lobes rounded, glabrous; receptacles obovoid-globose, 2 cm. in 
diameter, glabrous or nearly so, rose-colored at maturity; ostiole prominent; sepals 
dark ferruginous. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 472427, collected at La Fortuna, Volcan 
de Irazu, Costa Rica, altitude 1,575 meters, July, 1901, by H. Pittier (no. 16150). 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Costa Rica: Carrillo, January, 1908, Tonduz 17435 (N). Santo Domingo de 
Golfo Dulce, March, 1896, Tonduz 9887 (N). 
Panama: Ancon, Canal Zone, November, 1918, Mell (N). 
Native name in Costa Rica given as ‘‘chilamate.”’ 
Material of the type collection was sent by Mr. Pittier several years ago to Warburg, 
who assigned to it the name here published. Ficus crassiuscula is closely related to 
F. radula, but is distinguished by the long stipules and large, glabrous leaf blades, 
these not apiculate at the apex and with more numerous lateral veins. 
9. Ficus tecolutensis (Liebm.) Miquel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat, 3: 299. 1867. 
Urostigma tecolutense Liebm. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Skrivt. V. 2: 324. 1851. 
Young branches fulvous, glabrous; stipules 1 to 1.5 cm. long, long-acuminate, dark 
brown, glabrous, deciduous; petioles stout, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, glabrous; leaf blades 
oblong, elliptic-oblong, or oblong-oval, sometimes somewhat obovate, 6 to 10.5 cm. 
long, 2 to 4 em. wide, obtuse at the base and sometimes subemarginate, 5-nerved, obtuse 
or acutish at the apex, subcoriaceous, concolorous, glabrous, the costa stout, prominent 
beneath, the lateral veins very slender, scarcely prominent, 7 to 9 on each side, diver- 
gent at an angle of 50 to 60 degrees, laxly anastomosing near the margin; peduncles 
geminate, short, stout; receptacles attached laterally near the base, depressed-globose, 
5 to 8 mm. in diameter, clabrous, the ostiole depressed, 2.5 mm. broad, closed by 3 
thin brown scales; involucre bilobate, inconspicuous, 5 to 6 mm. long, partly attached 
to the receptacle, the lobes rounded, brown, minutely puberulent or glabrate outside. 
In Urban, Symb. Antill. 3: 484. 1903, 
