STANDLEY—MEXICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN FICUS. 13 
TYPE LocaLity: Tecoluta, Veracruz. Type collected by Liebmann. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Veracruz: Tecoluta, Liebmann (G, type collection). 
YucaTAN: Buena Vista, 1899, Gawmer (F). 
GuatTeMALA: Alotenango, Department of Zacatepéquez, alt. 1,500 meters, 
March, 1892, J. D. Smith 2605 (N, G). 
The Yucatdn specimen has only immature receptacles, hence the determination 
is doubtful. 
10. Ficus eugeniaefolia (Liebm.) Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 3: 144. 1883. 
Urostigma eugeniaefolium Liebm. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Skrivt. V. 2: 329. 1851. 
Young branches fuscous, glabrous; stipules 1 to 2.5 cm. long, long-acuminate, firm, 
dark brown, grayish-puberulent outside or glabrate; petioles rather slender, 1.5 to 3 
cm. long, glabrous; leaf blades obovate, broadly obovate, or elliptic-obovate, 5 to 10.5 
em. long, 2 to 4 cm. wide, narrowed to the obtuse 5-nerved base, obtuse, acute, or 
rounded at the apex, sometimes obscurely apiculate, subcoriaceous, glabrous, the 
costa coarse and prominent, the lateral veins slender, slightly prominent beneath, 8 
to 12 on each side, divergent at an angle of 60 to 90 degrees, parallel, arcuately anas- 
tomosing near the margin; receptacles sessile, geminate, globose or depressed, about 
1 cm. in diameter, glabrous, attached laterally near the base, the ostiole slightly 
prominent, closed by 2 valvate scales; involucre bilobate, united with the base of 
the receptacle, the free portion of the lobes broadly rounded, thin, glabrous, at first 
completely inclosing the receptacle but at maturity about two-thirds as long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Ujaras, Costa Rica. Type collected by Liebmann. 
_ SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Ex Satvapor: Without definite locality, Renson 96 (N). 
Renson’s collection, upon which the above description is based, agrees well with 
Liebmann’s description, except in the length of the petioles, which is given as 4 to 
8mm. Liebmann gives the vernacular name in Costa Rica as ‘‘soto de caballo.”’ 
11. Ficus tuerckheimii Standley, sp. nov. 
Large tree with branching trunk and elongate crown; young branches brownish, 
glabrous; stipules deciduous, 1.5 to 4.5 cm. long, narrow, long-acuminate, glabrous, 
or minutely puberulent outside; petioles 1.5 to 5.5 cm. long, stout, glabrous; leaf 
blades oval or oval-oblong, 8.5 to 17 cm. long, 4 to 9.5 cm. wide, obtuse or rounded 
at the base or rarely acute, not at all emarginate, 5 or 7-nerved, obtuse or rounded 
at the apex and short-apiculate, with a broad obtuse acumen, coriaceous, glabrous, 
green above, slightly paler beneath, the costa coarse and very prominent, the lateral 
veins slightly prominent beneath but slender, 7 to 9 on each side, divergent at an angle 
of 45 to 50 degrees, nearly straight, laxly anastomosing near the margin; receptacles 
geminate, sessile, attached laterally near the base, depressed-globose, 8 to 10 mm. in 
diameter, often more or less compressed laterally, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, the 
ostiole not prominent, closed by 2 dark brown valvate scales; involucre bilobate, 
united with the base of the receptacle, the free portion of the lobes broadly rounded, 
minutely puberulent or glabrate, at maturity about two-thirds the length of the 
receptacle, at anthesis equaling and closely inclosing the receptacle. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 472426, collected at La Fortuna, Volc4n 
de Irazti, Costa Rica, altitude 1,575 meters, July, 1901, by H. Pittier (no. 16149). 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
GUATEMALA: Cob4n, alt. 1,350 meters, December, 1907, von Tiirckheim II. 
2092 (N). 
Costa Rica: Rfo Turrialba, Province of Cartago, alt. 500 meters, March, 1894, 
J.D. Smith 4937 (N, G). 
Ficus tuerckheimii is closely related to F. jimenezti, but differs in the larger, propor- 
tionally narrower, pointed leaf blades with more prominent venation. 
