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3tto 7 mm. long; involucre bilobate, about 3 mm. long, inconspicuous, the lobes 
broadly rounded, spreading or reflexed, minutely puberulent or glabrate; receptacles 
globose, 4 to 6 mm. in diameter, glabrous, reddish, the ostiole small, plane or slightly 
elevated, closed by 3 scales. 
Type tocauty: Chiriqui Volcano, Panama. Type collected by Seemann. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
GuateMALA: Near Izabal, alt. 750 meters, February, 1907, Kellerman 6486 (N). 
Costa Rica: Nuestro Amo, July, 1912, Jiménez 516 (N). 
PANAMA: Without definite locality, Duchassaing (G). Around Caldera, Chiriquf, 
alt. 200 to 300 meters, March, 1911, Pitfier 8346 (N). Vicinity of David, 
Chiriquf, alt. 30 to 80 meters, February, 1911, Pititer 2822 (N), 2828 (N). 
Cotomsia: Santa Marta, H. H. Smith 2625 (N). 
The type of Urostigma chiriquianum also came from the mountains of Chiriquf. 
Ficus oerstediana is related to F. prinoides Wumb. & Bonpl., but is distinguished by 
the obovate, closely and regularly veined leal Tlades. 
34. Ficus hemsleyana Standley. 
Urostigma verrucosum Liebm. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Skrivt. V. 2: 321. 1801. 
Ficus verrucosa Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 3: 148. 1883, not /’. verrucosa Miquel, 
1867. 
Branches grayish or brownish, the young ones brown, glabrous or obscurely puberu- 
lent; stipules 10 to 17 mm. long, thin, deciduous, brown, glabrous or obscurely 
puberulent outside; petioles slender, 2 to 6 cm. long, glabrous or obscurely puberu- 
lent; leaf blades elliptic-oblong, or sometimes oblong-oval, oval, or ovate-oblong, 10 
to 22 cm. long, 4 to 8 cm. wide, subcordate to rounded at the base and 3 or 5-nerved, 
abruptly acuminate or subcuspidate at the apex, or sometimes gradually acuminate, 
the acumen acute, glabrous, bright green on the upper surface, paler or brownish be- 
neath, the lateral veins 7 to 13 on each side, divergent at an angle of about 60 degrees, 
arcuate or nearly straight, laxly and arcuately anastomosing near the margin; peduncles 
geminate, stout, half to two-thirds as long as the receptacles; involucre bilobate, about 
4 mm. long, the lobes rounded; receptacles globose, about 1 cm. in diameter, green, 
minutely puberulent or glabrate, the ostiole slightly prominent, closed by 3 broad 
bracts. 
Type Ltocauity: Nicaragua. Type collected by Orsted. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Guatemata: San Miguel Uspantén, Department of Quiché, March, 1892, Heyde 
& Lux (J. D. Smith, no. 2886) (N, G). 
Ex Satvapor: Without definite locality, Renson 70 (N), 188 (N). 
Costa Rica: San José, alt. 1,160 meters, October, 1897, Tonduz 11576 (N); 
November, 1910, Tonduz & Jiménez 17543 (N), 17542 (N). Camino en San 
Francisco de Guadalupe, October, 1910, Jiménez 13 (N). San Francisco de 
Guadalupe, alt. 1,170 meters, Jiménez 536 (N), 986(N). Rio Virilla, October, 
1912, Herb. Nac. Costa Rica (N). 
Panama: Chagres, March, 1850, Fendler 286 (N). Around Culebra, strangling 
an Attalea, January, 1911, Pittier 2318 (N). 
Tonduz’s no. 11576 was determined by Warburg as a new species and distributed 
under an unpublished name. 
35. Ficus lentiginosa Vahl, Enum. Pl. 2: 183. 1806. 
Ficus populnea lentiginosa Warb, in Urban, Symb. Antill. 3: 476. 1903. 
Young branches brownish, glabrous; stipules 1 to 1.5 cm, long, acuminate, brown, 
glabrous, deciduous; petioles slender, 2.5 to 10.5 cm. long, glabrous; leaf blades oval or 
ovate-oval, 7.5 to 16 cm. long, 5 to 9.5 cm. wide, broadly rounded and sometimes 
subemarginate at the base, 5-nerved, obtuse or rounded at the apex and usually 
