32 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM, 
geminate, about 3 mm. long and nearly as thick, glabrate; involucre bilobate, 7 mm. 
broad, the lobes rounded, thin, brown, spreading, glabrate; receptacles about 2cm. 
in diameter, globose, green spotted with blackish purple, glabrate, the ostiole not 
prominent, 4 mm. broad, closed by 3 broad, rounded, dark brown scales; sepals fer- 
ruginous. 
Type in the U.S. National Herbarium, no. 676759, collected around Gamboa, Canal 
Zone, Panama, altitude 20 to 100 meters, February 1, 1911, by H. Pittier (no. 2602). 
Very similar to the type is Fendler’s no. 285 from Chagres, Panama, which has blades 
almost exactly the same in outline but emarginate at the base. Thisisan important 
character, and consequently Fendler’s collection may well represent a distinct species. 
It includes a single detached receptacle, much distorted by pressure. Until better 
fruit is obtained it seems best to refer this plant to F. pittiert. 
Ficus pittieri resembles F. hemsleyana, but in the latter species the receptacles are 
much smaller. 
40. Ficus goldmanii Standley, sp. nov. 
Large tree with a short, very thick trunk supported by buttresses; branches gray or 
light brown, the young ones stout, glabrous or nearly so; stipules short, acuminate, 
sericeous or puberulent outside; petioles 1.8 to 3.5 mm. long, pruinose-puberulent, 
becoming glabrate; leaf blades oblong or elliptic-oblong, 7 to 17 cm. long, 3.5 to 7.3 
cm. wide, rounded and cordate or emarginate at the 3 or 5-nerved base, the sinus 
closed, sometimes 3 to 4 mm. deep, slightly narrowed to an obtuse rounded apex or 
broadly rounded, sometimes subemarginate, thick-coriaceous, pale green, lustrous on 
the upper surface, slightly paler beneath, glabrous, the costa very stout and promi- 
nent beneath, the lateral veins evident but not prominent, 5 to 13 on each side, 
divergent at an angle of about 60 degrees, nearly straight, laxly arcuate-anastomosing 
near the margin, the veinlets inconspicuous; peduncles geminate, slender, 10 to 13 
mm. long, minutely puberulent; involucre bilobate; receptacles globose, 2 to 2.5 cm. 
in diameter. spotted with light and dark green, grayish-puberulent or sparsely hirtel- 
lous with white hairs, the ostiole not prominent, 3 to 4.5 mm. broad, closed by thin, 
obtuse, green or brown scales; sepals pale brown. 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 335786, collected at Alamos, Sonora, 
Mexico, January 1, 1899, by E. A. Goldman (no. 288). There is a specimen of the 
same collection in the Gray Herbarium. 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Sonora: Arroyo at base of Sierra de Alamos, March, 1910, Rose, Standley & Rus- 
sell 13006 (N). 
SrnaLoa: Cofradia, October, 1904, Brandegee (C). 
Durango: Chacala, March, 1899, Goldman 355 (G). 
Jatisco: Near Guadalajara, September, 1891, Pringle 3390 (N, F). 
The proposed species is related to Ficus lapathifolia, but in that the leaf blades are 
larger, pubescent, and on usually shorter petioles, and the receptacles are more copi- 
ously pubescent. It is related also to Ficus yucatanensis, but that species differs in 
having the proportionally broader leaf blades scarcely or not at all emarginate at the 
base. 
A specimen in the National Herbarium, collected between Salamé and Rabinal, 
Guatemala, in May, 1904, by O. F. Cook and C. B. Doyle, the writer can not dis- 
tinguish from F. goldmanii. The material, however, is in very poor condition, the 
receptacles being molded and broken. The leaves are not exactly like those of F. 
goldmanit, and with better material it may be possible to distinguish it specifically. 
Pringle’s no. 3890 was distributed as ‘‘ Ficus guadalajarana, Wats., n. sp.,?? but some 
confusion must be involved, for the plant described under that name is a quite differ- 
ent species. 
