34 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Ficus ruscescens (Liebm.) Miquel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3: 298. 1867. 
Urostigma? fuscescens Liebm. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Skrivt. V. 2: 329. 1851. 
Young branches thickish, terete. rugose, fuscous; leaves alternate, the blades 
lanceolate, 13 to 15 em. long, 4 to 5 cm. wide, acute at both ends, gradually attenuate 
at the base to the petiole, dark green on the upper suriace (black when dry), glabrous, 
the costa slightly prominent, suleate, rufous-villosulous beneath, especially on the 
prominent costa and veins, the margin slightly undulate; petioles pilosuleus, 6 to 
8 mm. long, canaliculate above; stipules convolute. rufous-villous, lanceolate, acute; 
receptacles not known. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Colipa, Veracruz. Type collected by Liebmann. 
The plant may not be a Ficus. 
Ficus cumMirera Bertol. Mem. Accad. Sci. Bologna 10: 40. pl. 9. 1859. 
Evidently, from the description and illustration, a species of Castilla. According 
to Mr. H. Pittier it is, apparently, the same as Castilla guatfemalensis Pittier.! The 
species should, therefore, be known as Castilla gummifera (Bertol.) Pittier. The 
type came from Escuintla, Guatemala. 
UrostigMa? NUMMULARIA Liebm. Dansk. Vid. Selsk, Skrivt. V. 2: 330, 1851]. 
Founded on sterile specimens obtained at various localities in Mexico by Liebmann. 
It is evidently not a Ficus. 
Ficus NyMPHAEIFOLIA L. Mant. Pl. 305. 1767. 
This species was reported from southern Darién, Panama, by Seemann.” but he was 
not certain as to the determination. The species is to be expected in Panama, since 
it occurs in Colombia. It may be recognized by the broad leaf blades, 19 to 21 em. 
long and 16 to 18 em. wide, deeply cordate at the base and broadly rounded at the 
apex. The only material seen by the writer is H. H. Smith’s no. 1455 from Santa 
Marta, Colombia. 
Ficus PERGAMENEA Galeotti; Miquel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3: 221. 1867. 
Described from sterile cultivated plants. Miquel gives the origin of these, with a 
query, as Mexico. 
Ficus porTEANA Regel, Gartenflora 1862: 280. 1862. 
In the Index Kewensis? the distribution of this species is given as Mexico, but this 
is evidently an error, for in the original description it was stated that it came from the 
Philippines. 
UrostiagMA? scANDENS Liebm. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Skrivt. V. 2: 380. 1851. 
This, anew combination at the place cited, was based on Ficus scandens Lam. (a true 
Ficus), and Liebmann cited specimens of his collection irom Mirador, Mexico. These, 
according to Warburg,‘ are really of the genus Marcgravia. 
CULTIVATED SPECIES. 
Ficus carica L. Sp. Pl. 1059. 1753. 
The common fig is widely cultivated in Mexico and Central America, and probably 
has escaped from cultivation in some places, but no specimens have been seen by the 
writer. 
Ficus CRASSINERVIA Willd, Sp. Pl. 4: 1138. 1806. 
This is a West Indian species, occurring in Porto Rico, St. Thomas, Guadeloupe, 
Martinique, and Santa Lucia. A specimen in the herbarium of the Field Museum of 
‘Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 18: 272. pl. 33-39. f. 50, 57. 1910. 
? Bot. Voy. Herald 195. 1854. 
32: 962. 1893. 
*Tn Urban, Sym. Antill. 3: 491. 1903. 
