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ceous, glaucous green, when young densely pubescent on both surfaces with short, 
white, straight or crispate hairs, in age glabrate on the upper surface; peduncles 
geminate, 5 to 25 mm. long, densely pubescent, or glabrate in age; involucre bilobate, 
small, the lobes rounded, pubescent; receptacles turbinate-globose, 12 to 15 mm. in 
diameter, flattened on the top, densely soft-pubescent or finally glabrate, the ostiole 
prominent, the scales broadly triangular, obtuse; sepals pale brown. 
Type LOCALITY: San Martin Island, Lower California. Type collected by Palmer 
in 1887 (no. 413). 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Lower Cauirornia: San Martin Island, 1887, Palmer 413 (N, G, type, C). El 
Potrero, 25 miles southwest of Mulegé, alt. 180 meters, October, 1905, Nelson 
& Goldman 7234 (N). Seal Island, April, 1911, Rose 16817 (N). Near 
Calmallf, alt. 480 meters, 1898, Purpus 1(N, F, C), Tiburén Island, 1895, 
McGee (N, C); April, 1911, Rose 16786 (N). Head of Concepcién Bay, April, 
1911, Rose 16701 (N). Santa Rosalfa, 1889, Palmer 210 (N, G). Cape San 
Lucas, March, 1911, Rose 16387 (N). Between Cajén and El Sacatén, alt. 60 
to 150 meters, December, 1905, Nelson & Goldman 7363 (N). Yubay, alt. 600 
meters, September, 1905, Nelson & Goldman 7149 (N). San Juanico, 1897, 
Anthony (F). Purisima, 1889, Brandegee (F). San Benito, April 10, 1889, 
Brandegee (C), Comandt, Brandegee (C). 
The fruit is said to be edible, but with its small amount of pulp and its hairy indu- 
ment it can not be very palatable. 
The species is a variable one in several respects, but especially in leaf form. In 
some cases the leaves are soon glabrate, but in others they retain their pubescence to 
maturity. Usually the blades are truncate or subcordate at the base. In some of the 
Tiburén Island specimens, however, they are deeply cordate, with overlapping lobes, 
reminding one of the leaves of Ficus petiolaris, although even in sterile specimens these 
two are easily distinguished by the difference in pubescence. In the material from 
Concepcién Bay the peduncles are remarkably long and the receptacles small and 
glabrate, yet there is little doubt that the specimens are conspecific with the others 
cited. 
In the type collection the leaves are smaller and more densely pubescent than is 
usual in the species. 
26. Ficus brandegei Standley, sp. nov. 
Young branches glaucous, glabrous or pruinose-puberulent, reddish brown in age; 
stipules narrowly triangular, 12 to 18 mm. long, long-acuminate, dark brown, glabrous; 
petioles stout, 1.5 to 3.5 cm. long, glabrous; leaf blades broadly deltoid-ovate, 7 to 10.5 
cm. long, 5 to 8 cm. wide, subcordate or cordate at the base and 5-nerved, obtuse or 
broadly obtuse at the apex, coriaceous, glabrous, pale green above, glaucescent beneath, 
the lateral veins slender but prominent beneath, 6 to 8 on each side, divergent at an 
angle of 45 to 60 degrees, straight, arcuately anastomosing near the margin; peduncles 
geminate, 2.5 to 4 cm. long, glabrous; involucre deeply bilobate, 10 to 12 mm. long, the 
lobes rounded, pruinose-puberulent; receptacles globose, 1.5 cm. in diameter, glabrous, 
the ostiole prominent, closed by 3 suberect valvate scales. 
Type in the herbarium of the University of California, no. 142205, collected at San 
José del Cabo, Lower California, Mexico, September 15, 1899, by T. 5S. Brandegee. 
Another specimen in the same herbarium (no. 116819) was obtained at the same Jocality 
by Brandegee, September 16, 1890 (no. 561). 
Ficus brandegei is closely related to F. palmeri, also of Lower California, and may be 
only a form of it. The latter species, however, has copiously pubescent leaves and 
receptacles, and the receptacles are pyriform-globose. In F. brandeget the leaf blades 
are perfectly glabrous, even in bud, and all the receptacles appear to be globose. The 
latter character perhaps will not hold when a larger series of specimens has been 
secured. The character of the pubescence, nevertheless, seems to be sufficient for the 
separation of the two species, for in none of the other American species do we find 
