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GUERRERO: Near Iguala, 1905, Rose, Painter & Rose 9400 (N). Between Tlapa 
and Ayusinapa, alt. 1,350 to 1,710 meters, 1894, Nelson 2099 (N, G). 
MoreEtos: Cuernavaca, 1904, Pringle 13196 (distributed as F'. guadalajarana) 
(N, G, F). 
This tree is abundant all along the western coast of Mexico, growing on dry slopes, 
often on the face of cliffs. Itis perhaps the most distinct of all the Mexican species, 
being strongly marked by the tufts of long white hairs on the lower surface of the 
leaves, as well as by the leaf outline. 
The type of Ficus jaliscana was collected on cliffs near Guadalajara by Pringle 
(no. 2932). It seems strange that Watson did not associate Pringle’s specimens with 
the species so accurately described by Kunth. 
Here, doubtless, is to be placed Seemann’s no. 1459, from Mazatlan, Mexico, referred 
doubtfully to Ficus nymphacifolia L. by Hemsley. That species somewhat resembles 
F. petiolaris, but is very distinct. It has been collected recently in Colombia (H. H. 
Smith 1455). 
24. Ficus donnell-smithii Standley, sp. nov. 
Small tree, 4 to 5 meters high; branches slender, dark grayish brown, the young 
ones paler, finely and densely puberulent or short-hirtellous, tardily glabrate; stipules 
narrowly triangular, acuminate, 5 to7 mm. long, finely sericeous-puberulent; petioles 
slender, 7 to 18 mm. long, puberulent; leaf blades oblong-elliptic to very narrowly 
oblong or lance-oblong, 7 to 15 cm. long, 1.8 to 2.7 cm. wide, slightly narrowed to the 
obtuse subemarginate 3-nerved base, usually gradually tapering to the acuminate 
or long-acuminate apex but sometimes obtuse or rounded, dark green, thin, scaberu- 
lous on the upper surface, glabrate in age, beneath pilose with very short whitish 
hairs, becoming glabrate, the lateral veins not prominent, 7 or 8 on each side, remote, 
ascending at an angle of about 45 degrees, slightly arcuate, obscurely anastomosing near 
the margin, the veinlets inconspicuous; peduncles geminate, slender, 6 to 7 mm. 
long, puberulent; involucre bilobate, 3 to 4 mm. broad, the lobes rounded, reflexed 
or spreading, brown, puberulent outside; receptacles subglobose, 8 to 9 mm. in 
diameter, puberulent but becoming glabrate, the ostiole not prominent, 2.6 mm. 
broad, closed by 3 broad rounded scales; sepals ferruginous. 
Type in the U.S. National Herbarium, no. 576518, collected at Cubilquitz, Depart- 
ment of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, altitude 350 meters, May, 1902, by H. von Tirck- 
heim (no. II. 597; J. D. Smith, no. 8289.) The same collection is represented by 
nos. 796063-796065 of the National Herbarium and by specimens in the Gray Herba- 
rium and the herbarium of the Field Museum of Natural History. Also obtained at 
the type locality in August, 1900, by the same collector (no. 7773) (N, G). 
Very distinct from all other species in its very narrow leaf blades. In some respects 
it agrees with the diagnosis of Ficus guatemalana, which was based upon plants culti- 
vated at Berlin, obtained in Guatemala by Warscewicz. That species was described 
as having much larger, proportionally broader blades. While it may, nevertheless, 
be the same as the plant here described, judging from the description it seems 
more properly referable to synonymy under Ff. lapathifolia (see p. 24). Both collec- 
tions here cited were distributed as Ficus lancifolia, but that is a very different plant 
(see p. 25). 
25. Ficus palmeri 8. Wats. Proc."Amer. Acad. 24: 77. 1889. 
Large or small tree with yellowish bark; young branches stout, densely white- 
pilose, finally becoming glabrate; stipules broadly ovate-triangular, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, 
acuminate, thin, dark brown, glabrous; petioles mostly slender, 1.5 to 5 cm. long, 
short-pilose or puberulent; leaf blades very variable in outline but usually broadly 
ovate-deltoid, sometimes cordate-orbicular, 6 to 14 cm. long, 4 to 11.5 cm. wide, 
truncate to deeply cordate at the base, broadly rounded to acutish at the apex, coria- 
1 Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 3: 146. 1883. 
