24 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
29. Ficus velutina Willd. Sp. Pl. 4: 1141. 1806. 
Large tree; branches brownish, the young ones fulvous-hirtellous, very stout, 
glabrate in age; stipules 1.5 to 2 cm. long, ovate-triangular, acuminate, fulvous or 
ferruginous-sericeous outside; petioles stout, 1.3 to 3.2 cm. long, villous or villous- 
tomentose when young, glabrate in age; leaf blades oval, ovate-oval, obovate-oval, 
or broadly obovate-oblong, 9 to 26 cm. long, 5.5 to 11.5 cm. wide, often slightly nar- 
rowed toward both ends, rounded, truncate, or subcordate at the base, always at least 
emarginate, rounded or very obtuse at the apex and usually very shortly obtuse- 
apiculate, pale green, the upper surface scaberulous and puberulent along the veins 
or in age glabrate, the lower surface at first tomentulose, becoming short-pilose, or 
finally glabrate, the costa stout, bearing a large black gland at the base, the lateral 
veins prominent, 7 to 12 on each side, ascending or divaricate, distant, subarcuate, 
anastomosing near the margin, the veinlets prominent, densely or coarsely reticulate; 
peduncles geminate, 2 to3 mm. long, very thick, short-pilose; involucre bilobate, about 
1 cm. in greatest diameter, the lobes obtuse, fulvous or ferruginous-tomentulose out- 
side, becoming glabrate, spreading or reflexed; receptacles globose, 1.3 to 1.7 cm. in 
diameter, smooth or verrucose, minutely sericeous-puberulent, becoming glabrate, 
the ostiole rather prominent, 4 mm. broad; sepals ferruginous. 
Tyre Locatity: Near Rio Xayo and Sambingo, between Almaguer and Pasto, 
Colombia.! Type collected by Bonpland. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Costa Rica: Camino 4 Desamparados, November, 1910, Tonduz & Jiménez 
17541 (N). Nuestro Amo, Hacienda de Dr. Nufiez, alt. 500 meters, July, 
1912, Jiménez 517(N). Parque Nacional, San José, alt. 1,000 meters, Novem- 
ber, 1901, Pittver 16215 (N). Alajuela, February, 1910, Jiménez 706 (N). 
Desamparados, alt. 1,180 meters, December, 1913, Jiménez 982 (N). 
Panama: Sabana del Macano, Caldera, Chiriquf, alt. 200 to 300 meters, March, 
1911, Pittier 3359 (N). 
The native name in Costa Rica is given as ‘‘chilamate.”’ 
The specimens cited agree very well with the amplified description published by 
Kunth.!. They exhibit a good deal of variation, especially in leaf form. The first 
collection cited is remarkable in having rather narrow leaf blades with divaricate 
lateral veins. Pittier’s no. 16215, determined by Warburg as a new species, has 
broad blades, mostly broadest near the base, and very conspicuous veinlets. 
30. Ficus lapathifolia (Liebm.) Miquel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3: 297. 1867. 
Urostigma lapathifolium Liebm. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Skrivt. V. 2: 319. 1851. 
Urostigma guatemalanum Miquel, Versl. Med. Kon. Akad. Amsterdam 13: 411. 1862. 
Ficus guatemalana Miquel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3: 298. 1867. 
Branches dark brownish gray, the young ones puberulent and hirtellous with gray 
hairs, the pubescence persistent; stipules ovate-triangular or lance-triangular, 15 
to 18 mm. long, densely whitish-sericeous outside, or the pubescence slightly spread- 
ing; petioles 1 to 3.2 cm. long, stout, densely puberulent and whitish-hirtellous, be- 
coming glabrate; leaf blades oval to broadly oblong, 6 to 19 cm. long, 3.5 to 9 cm. wide, 
rounded or subtruncate and emarginate or subcordate at the base, 3 or 5-nerved, 
rounded or obtuse at the apex, often very shortly and broadly obtuse-apiculate, coria- 
ceous, the upper surface at first copiously pubescent with short, grayish, spreading or 
appressed hairs, scaberulous or glabrate in age, beneath fulvous, densely pubescent 
with short, straight or crispate, spreading or matted hairs, sometimes becoming gla- 
brate, the lateral veins prominent, 7 to 13 oneach side, distant, straight, laxly and arcu- 
ately anastomosing near the margin, the veinlets inconspicuous, coarsely reticulate; 
peduncles geminate, 4 to 9 mm. long, stout, hirtellous; involucre bilobate, about 
1H, B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 46. 1817, 
