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are no concomitant peculiarities of pubescence or fruit. The form with broad leaves 
is usually quite glabrous and the other minutely puberulent on the young branches 
and stipules, but this is not invariably true. There seem to be no definite differ- 
ences in the receptacles. Although the writer has tried every possible character as a 
basis of segregation, he has found nowhere any constant specific differences. 
Langlassé’s no. 1014 bis is noteworthy for its small receptacles, suggesting F. pri- 
noides Kunth & Bouché, but the leaves are unlike those of that species. It may 
represent an undescribed species, but further collections are necessary to settle this 
point. A few of the Costa Rican specimens are notable for their oblanceolate leai 
blades. Several Costa Rican collections were distributed under an unpublished name 
of Warburg’s, but they seem to differ in no essential character from the mass of material 
examined. 
Ficus padifolia was described from specimens having broad, thick leaf blades. The 
type of F. complicata was collected in Mexico near Guasitlan and Puente de Istla, by 
Bonpland. The type of F. lancifolia was from Tepic, Mexico. Ficus consanguinea 
was based upon plants of uncertain derivation grown at Berlin. Miquel referred to it 
specimens obtained by Schiede between Sepillo and Estura, Mexico. Indeed, it is 
not certain that it is correctly placed here in synonymy. The type of Urostigma 
sapidum was collected at Cartago, Costa Rica, by Orsted; that of U. baccatum at 
Hacienda de Santa Cruz, near Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, by Liebmann; and that of U. 
turbinatum at Guatulco, Oaxaca, by Liebmann. Urostigma liehmannianum was based 
upon material collected in Panama along the Chagres River. “The type of Urostigma 
sulcipes was collected at Atlacomulco, Mexico, by Schiede and Deppe. Both Ficus 
fasciculata and F’, sonorae were described from material collected at Guaymas, Sonora, 
by Palmer. It seems strange that Watson should have described both these species 
at the same time, for the specimens upon which they were based all look as though 
they might have come from the same tree. 
Many of the collections listed here have been determined as Ficus ligustrina Kunth 
& Bouché! That species was based upon cultivated specimens sent from Caracas by 
Moritz. It is probably the same as F. prinoides Humb. & Bonpl.,? the type of which 
was from Mérida, Colombia. The latter species, to which some of the Mexican and 
Central American specimens above listed have been referred, differs from F. padifolia 
in its small receptacles, with a plane or slightly elevated ostiole. The writer has seen 
the following specimens: 
CoLoMBIA: Santa Marta, H. H. Smith 2420 (N, F, G), 1458 (N, F, G), 1459 (N). 
It occurs also in Trinidad, according to Warburg.? 
33. Ficus oerstediana Miquel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3: 299. 1867. 
Urostigma oerstedianum Miquel in Seem, Bot. Voy. Herald 196. pl. 36. 1854. 
Urostigma chiriquianum Miquel, Versl. Med. Kon. Akad. Amsterdam 18: 412. 1862. 
Ficus chiriquiana Miquel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3: 298. 1867. 
Tree of medium size; young branches grayish or brownish, puberulent or glabrate; 
stipules 5 to 15 mm. long, acuminate, glabrous or minutely puberulent outside, 
deciduous; petioles stout, 3 to 15 mm. long, glabrous; leaf blades obovate, obovate- 
oblong, elliptic-oblong, or oblanceolate, 4 to 11 cm, long, 1 to 4.5 cm. wide, usually 
cuneately narrowed to the obtuse or acute base, very obtuse or acute at the apex, or 
often short-apiculate with a broad obtuse acumen, coriaceous, concolorous, glabrous, 
the costa coarse and prominent, the lateral veins very slender, only slightly prominent, 
9 to 15 on each side, divergent at an angle of 60 to 80 degrees, arcuately anastomos- 
ing into a distinct submarginal vein, the secondary lateral veins slender and parallel 
to the primary ones; peduncles geminate, slender, glabrous or minutely puberulent, 
1 Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 16. 1846. 
2? Willd. Sp. Pl. 4: 1149. 1806. 
3 In Urban, Symb, Antill, 3: 483. 1905. 
