STANDLEY—MEXICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN FICUS. 15 
lanate along the nerves, becoming glabrate, the lateral veins prominent beneath, 14 
on each aide, parallel, arcuately anastomosing near the margin, the veinlets reticulate; 
receptacles sessile, depressed-globose, 12 mm. long, 24 mm. broad, subpilose, finally 
glabrate; ostiole closed by 2 rufous-pilose scales; involucre bilobate, the lobes ovate, 
obtuse, fulvous-pilose. 
Type Locauity: Turrialba, Costa Rica. Type collected by Orsted. 
There is probably to be referred here a specimen collected near Cachi, Reventazén 
Valley, Costa Rica, at an altitude of 1,000 meters, March, 1902, by Brade (no. 16349). 
This locality is in the same region as Turrialba. Unfortunately, the specimen con- 
sists only of leaf blades, but these agree well with Liebmann’s diagnosis except that 
they are even larger than in his specimens. 
Ficus intramarginalis has the largest leaves of all the North American species. 
The blades of Brade’s collection are 33 and 36 cm. long and 21 and 25 cm. wide, acutish 
at the apex, and with 13 or 14 lateral veins on each side. 
15. Ficus cookii Standley, sp. nov. 
Branches very stout, gray or brown, the young ones minutely puberulent or glabrate; 
stipules deciduous, 10 to 16 mm. long, broad, brown, obscurely puberulent or glabrous; 
petioles stout, 2.5 to 7.5 cm. long, glabrous; leaf blades broadly oval to rounded-oval 
or orbicular-ovate, 6 to 11 cm. long, 4.4 to 8.5 cm. wide, shallowly cordate at the base 
and 5 or 7-nerved, broadly rounded at the apex and sometimes very shortly apiculate, 
coriaceous, green above, slightly paler beneath, glabrous or when young slightly 
puberulent beneath, the lateral veins 8 to 10 on each side, coarse, divergent at an 
angle of 65 to 85 degrees, nearly straight, arcuately anastomosing near the margin; 
receptacles geminate, subglobose, about 1 cm. in diameter, red or pinkish, glabrous, 
the ostiole slightly elevated, closed by 3 broad thick bracts; involucre about two- 
thirds as long as the receptacle and closely investing it, bilobate, the lobes broadly 
rounded, brown, rigid, finely puberulent outside; receptacles partly sessile and partly 
pedunculate, the stout peduncles equaling or shorter than the receptacles. 
Typein the U.S. National Herbarium, no. 860257, collected at San Vicente, Chiapas, 
Mexico, June 5, 1906, by O. F. Cook (no. 73). 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Curapas: San Vicente, June, 1906, Cook 74 (N); April, 1904, Goldman 891 (N). 
Soyotitén, March, 1904, Goldman 781 (N). Comitaén, April, 1904, Goldman 
832 (N); June, 1906, Cook 108 (N). 
GuATEMALA: San Andrés, Huehuetenango, May, 1906, Cook 52 (N). 
Ficus cookii differs from all the other species of Mexico and Central America in 
having both sessile and pedunculate receptacles. In some respects it answers to the 
description of F. calyculata Mill., but the diagnosis of that species is too incomplete to 
admit of a reliable identification. Moreover, Miller’s statement that the fruit of his 
plant was “the size of a middling nutmeg” seems to indicate some species with 
larger receptacles. 
16. Ficus panamensis Standley, sp. nov. 
Young branches brownish, puberulent or glabrous; stipules about 2 cm. long, 
deciduous, narrow, grayish-puberulent outside; petioles rather slender, 1 to 3.0 cm. 
long, minutely puberulent or glabrate; leaf blades narrowly obovate-oblong or some- 
times oblong, 9 to 16.5 cm. long, 4 to 5.5 cm. wide, obtuse or rounded and emarginate 
at the base, rounded and abruptly cuspidate at the apex, the narrow acumen 8 to 
12 mm. long, obtuse or acute, green on both surfaces, sublustrous on the upper sur- 
face, thin, glabrous; receptacles geminate, sessile, subglobose, about 1 cm. in diameter, 
slightly longer than broad, glabrous, the ostiole prominent, closed by 2 large and one 
very small bract, these suberect, the receptacle thus mamillate at the apex; involucre 
bilobate, about 6 mm. long, the lobes rounded, minutely puberulent, spreading. 
