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glabrous and pubescent forms. In some species, for example F. cotinifolia, leaves 
which are at first pubescent later become glabrate, but traces of the pubescence may 
be found even in age. 
27. Ficus pringlei S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 26: 150. 1891. 
Small or medium-sized tree; older branches reddish brown, glabrate, the young 
ones densely villous with fulvous hairs; stipules triangular-oblong or ovate, about 
1.5 cm. long, acute, densely villous; petioles stout, 5 to 11 mm. long, villous; leaf 
blades ovate-oval or deltoid-ovate, 4.5 to 8 cm. long, 2.5 to 6 cm. wide, subcordate 
or emarginate at the base, very obtuse or sometimes rounded at the apex, thick-cori- 
aceous, rugose, yellowish green, the upper surface finely hirtellous or in age glabrate, 
the lower surface densely short-villous with grayish or slightly fulvous hairs, the 
lateral veins prominent, usually 6 on each side, ascending at an angle of about 50 
degrees, distant, nearly straight, anastomosing near the margin, the veinlets promi- 
nent, finely reticulate; peduncles geminate, stout, 2 to 4 mm. long, densely villous; 
involucre bilobate, the lobes rounded, nearly or quite half as long as the receptacle, 
appressed, densely and finely villous-sericeous on both surfaces; receptacles de- 
pressed-globose, about 1 cm. broad, finely sericeous with short white hairs when young 
but soon glabrate, the ostiole prominent, closed by 3 suberect, rounded, dark brown, 
pubescent scales; sepals dark ferruginous. 
Type LocaLiry: In the barranca near Guadalajara, Jalisco. Type collected by 
Pringle, December, 1889 (no. 2928). 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Jauisco: Near Guadalajara, December, 1889, Pringle 2928 (G, type); July, 1902, 
Pringle 11174 (N, G, F); September, 1891, Pringle 3865 (N, G, F); Septem- 
ber, 1903, Pringle 7366 (N). On the road between Bolafios and Guadala- 
jara, September, 1897, Rose 3065 (N). 
The fruit is said to be edible. 
The specimens are very uniform, and, so far as is now known, the species is very 
restricted in its distribution. 
28. Ficus microchlamys Standley, sp. nov. 
Older branches nearly black, glabrate, the young ones tomentose; stipules ovate- 
triangular, about 7 mm. long, densely fulvous-villous; petioles stout, 10 to 13 mm. 
long, fulvous-tomentose; leaf blades broadly oblong, ovate-oblong, oblong-oval, or 
rounded-ovate, 6 to 12 cm. long, 3.5 to 7.3 cm. wide, subcordate or emarginate at 
the base, rounded or obtuse and very shortly apiculate at the apex, thick-coriaceous, 
pale green on the upper surface and villosulous along the veins or glabrate, beneath 
densely and loosely tomentose with fulvous or grayish hairs, the lateral veins very 
prominent beneath, 11 or 12 on each side, approximate, parallel, nearly straight, 
divergent at an angle of about 50 degrees, arcuately anastomosing near the margin, 
the veinlets prominent, coarsely reticulate; peduncles geminate, stout, 5 to 7 mm. 
long, fulvous-villous; involucre bilobate, very small, the lobes rounded, 2 to 3 mm. 
long, densely villous outside, glabrous within, reflexed; receptacles subglobose, 12 
mm. in diameter, very densely fulvous-villous, the ostiole rather prominent; sepals 
dark ferruginous. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 41638, collected on rocky bluffs of a 
barranca near Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, October 9, 1891, by C. G. Pringle (no. 
3883). Specimens of the same collection are in the Gray Herbarium and in the her- 
baria of the Field Museum of Natural History and the University of California. 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Tepic: Tepic, 1892, Palmer 2006 (N). 
Veracruz: Orizaba, Bottert 424 (G). 
In general appearance the proposed species resembles Ficus pringlei, from the same 
locality, but in the latter the involucre is appressed and three times as large, while 
the pubescence of the receptacles is very different and the peduncles are much shorter. 
