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41. Ficus yucatanensis Standley, sp. nov. 
Branchlets stout, 5 to 8 mm. thick, yellowish or gray, glabrous; stipules 10 to 15 
mm. long, natrowly triangular, attenuate, firm, brown, minutely puberulent outside 
and sparsely strigose; petioles stout, 1 to 2.4 cm. long, glabrous; leaf blades oval, 
narrowly oval, or oval-oblong, 8 to 20 cm. long, 4.3 to 9.5 cm. wide, rounded at the 
base and sometimes subemarginate, 3 or 5-nerved, broadly rounded or obtuse at the 
apex, coriaceous or subcoriaceous. glabrous, green on the upper surface and closely 
punctate, beneath pale or golden brown, the costa prominent, stout, with a glandular 
area at the base, the lateral veins subprominent beneath but very slender, 8 to 11 
on each side, distant, straight, divergent at an angle of 45 to 80 degrees, arcuately 
anastomosing near the margin, the veinlets inconspicuous, laxly reticulate; peduncles 
geminate, 1 cm. long, glabrate; involucre bilobate, 7 mm. in greatest diameter, the 
lobes rounded, thin, brown, glabrous; receptacles globose, 2 cm. in diameter, glabrous 
or nearly so, the ostiole not prominent, 2 to 4 mm. broad, closed by 3 broad brown 
scales; sepals dark ferruginous. 
Type in the U. 8S. National Herbarium, no. 396917, collected at Chichen Itza, 
Yucatan, Mexico, in late January or early February, 1901, by E. A. Goldman (no. 
554). There is a specimen of the same collection in the herbarium of the Field 
Museum of Natural History. Also collected on rocks along the seashore, Cozumel, 
Yucatan, April, 1901, by E. A. Goldman (no. 657) (N, F). 
Related to Ficus lapathifolia, but distinguished by the glabrous leaves and nearly 
or quite glabrous receptacles. The type was determined by Dr. J. M. Greenman as 
Ficus trigonata L. f.! The type of that species was obtained by Dalberg in Surinam, 
but its identification, as stated by Warburg,? is obscure, and its description does not 
suggest the present plant. Ficus trigonata has been reported irom the West Indies, 
but Warburg refers all the material so determined to other species. 
DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
Ficus BotryaPioipes Kunth & Bouché, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 15. 1846. 
Urostigma botryapioides Miquel, Lond. Journ. Bot. 6: 538, 1847. 
Described from cultivated plants believed to have come from Mexico. Warburg? 
considers it only a form of F. populnea Willd., and states that its origin was probably 
West Indian. 
Ficus catycuxtaTa Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8. Ficus no. 11. 1768. 
This species, the first described trom Mexico, it has been impossible to identify. 
It was based upon material sent from Veracruz by Houstoun and grown in England. 
The essential parts of Miller’s description are as follows: “This rises with many 
shrubby stalks to the height of twelve or fourteen feet, and divides into many smaller 
branches, which are garnished with oval stiff leaves, which are obtuse; they are four 
inches long and three broad, of a light green, and stand upon very short foot-stalks, 
which are joined to a cup, in which the fruit sits; this is globular and the size of a 
middling nutmeg, of a deep yellow, when ripe, but is not eatable.’? The descrip- 
tion suggests F’. cofinifolia, except that that has a smaller receptacle than indicated. 
The locality Veracruz does not necessarily imply that Houstoun’s material came from 
either the city or State of that name, for it was used at that time to indicate Mexico 
asa whole. The type, if any was preserved, is not to be found in the herbarium of 
the British Museum, where Miller’s herbarium is deposited, 
‘Suppl. Pl. 441. 1781. 
2 In Urban, Symb. Antill. 3: 463. 1908. 
3 In Urban, Symb. Antill. 3: 479. 1903. 
