STANDLEY—-MEXICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN FICUS. 31 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
SmnaALoa: Mazatlan, April, 1910, Rose, Standley & Russell 14104 (N); February 
10, 1890, Brandegee (C). 
Tepic: Near Pedro Paulo, August, 1897, Rose 1972 (N), 
San Luis Potosi: Micos, December, 1891, Pringle 3977 (N,G, F). San Dieguito, 
June, 1905, Palmer 635 (F, ©), 
Oaxaca: Road between Nopala and Mixistepec, alt. 240 to 1,200 meters, March, 
1895, Nelson 2434 (N, G). 
GUERRERO: Acapulco, 1894-95, Palmer 373 (N, G, F). 
MicHoacdn: Ostula, November, 1906, Finrick 101 (F). 
Yucatan: Cozumel Island, April, 1901, Goldman 650 (N, F). Progreso, 1901, 
Goldman 609 (N, F). 
GUATEMALA: Gualan, Department of Zacapa, alt. 122 meters, January, 1906, 
Kellerman 5019 (N). Joyabaj (El Quiché), May, 1906, Cook 23 (N), Es- 
cuintla, Department of Escuintla, alt. 330 meters, March, 1890, J. D. Smith 
2011 (G), 
Costa Rica: Near Nicoya, February, 1900, Pittier 13835 (N). 
This is one of the strangler figs. In Costa Rica the native name is given as “palo 
de agua;’’ at Acapulco it is “amate.’’ A tree at the latter locality, photographed by 
Palmer, has a trunk 1.8 meters in diameter, and a crown 19 meters broad. 
The species has a remarkably wide range as compared with most of our species, 
yet the specimens are very uniform. 
The description of Urostigma invelutum strongly suggests this species. The 
peduncles are very short, and the young receptacles might well be taken to be sessile, 
as described by Liebmann. The type was collected between Sapoa and Tortuga, 
Nicaragua, by Orsted. 
38. Ficus jonesii Standley, sp. nov. 
Large tree with glabrous branches and leaves; stipules short, thin, sparsely sericeous 
outside; petioles slender, 3.5 to 7 cm. long; leaf blades oval-oblong to broadly ovate- 
oblong, very irregular in outline, 7.5 to 17.5 em, long, 5 to 10 cm. wide, broad at the 
base and cordate or subcordate, 5-nerved, slightly narrowed to the broadly rounded 
or very obtuse apex, sometimes short-apiculate, thin, bright green, concolorous, the 
margins often undulate, the lateral veins rather prominent beneath, 5 to 9 on each 
side, distant, ascending at an angle of 50 to 60 degrees, subarcuate, laxly anastomosing 
near the margin, the veinlets prominent, reticulate; receptacles globose, 2.5 cm. in 
diameter, densely hirtellous: sepals ferruginous. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 237888, collected at La Palma, Jalisco, 
Mexico, June 7, 1892, by Marcus E. Jones (no. 33). Sterile specimens of the same 
species were collected above Colomas, Sinaloa, July, 1897, by J. N. Rose (no, 3220). 
Mr. Jones states that this is a very large tree with the general appearance of the 
honey locust, Gleditsia triucanihos. The species is well distinguished by the broad, 
irregular, long-petiolate, cordate or subcordate leaves. These are very irregular in 
outline and sometimes almost four-sided. The single receptacle of the type specimen 
is detached, consequently it may have been either sessile or pedunculate; probably 
it was pedunculate. 
39. Ficus pittieri Standley, sp. nov. 
Tree with glabrous branches and leaves; stipules short, densely white-sericeous; 
petioles stout, 2.5 to 4 cm. Jong, glabrous; leaf blades oval or oblong-oval, 16 to 21 cm. 
long, 7.5 to 10.5 cm. wide, rounded at the base and slightly decurrent, 5-nerved, 
rounded at the apex and broadly short-apiculate, deep green, concolorous, rather thin, 
with subundulate margins, the lateral veins 11] to 13 on each side, prominent but slender, 
divergent at an angle of 60 to 80 degrees, straight, rather distant, arcuately anastomos- 
ing near the margin, the veinlets inconspicuous but very finely reticulate; peduncles 
