STANDLEY 
MEXICAN AND CENTRAL AMERICAN FICUS, 35 
Natural History, from Moria, Puebla, collected by Nicolas, seems to belong here, and 
probably was taken from a cultivated specimen, since no similar or closely related 
species is otherwise known from Mexico, It has glabrous, oval leaf blades 7.5 to 10 
cm. long, and nearly sessile, globose receptacles 9 to 15 mm, in diameter. 
Ficus Evastica Roxb. Hort. Beng. 65. 1814. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Costa Rica: Nuestro Amo, Herb. Nac. Costa Rica 17551 (N). 
This, the common rubber plant of the florists, is a native of Asia or Malaysia. It is 
distinguished by its thick, closely veined, cuspidate leaf blades and elongate recep- 
tacles, 
Ficus niripa Thunb. Ficus Diss. 10, 1786. 
? Ficus arbutifolia Link, Enum. Pl, 2: 450. 1822, not F. arbutifolia Pers. 1807. 
? Urostigma arbutifolium Miquel, Vers]. Med. Kon, Akad. Amsterdam 18: 412. 1862. 
? Ficus polypus Schiede; Miquel, loc. cit. as synonym. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Smvatoa: Mazatlan, 1910, Rose, Standley & Russell 14158 (N). 
VERACRUZ: Pueblo Viejo, near Tampico, 1910, Palmer 368 (N). 
MicnoacAn: Morelia, 1909, Arsene 54 (F), 60 (F). 
Yucatan: Mérida, 1900, Rivas 39 (F). Ticul, 1903, C. & E. Seler 3869 (F). 
Known in Yucatan as “laurel’’ and ‘“lamo extrangero.”’ 
A native of Asia, often planted in tropical America as a shade tree, It is a hand- 
some large tree with wide-spreading, very dense crown and glossy dark green leaves. 
The leaf blades are broadly obovate, pointed at the apex, glabrous, finely and closely 
veined; the receptacles are depressed-globose, small, with a 3-lobed involucre. 
The descriptions of Ficus arbutifolia suggest this species very strongly. Link’s 
species was based upon plants cultivated at Berlin. 
Ficus RELIGIOsA L, Sp. Pl. 1059, 1753. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
YucarTAn: Mérida, 1916, Gawmer 23191 (F). 
Panama: Plaza de la Catedral, Panama, 1911, Pittier 3399 (N). 
Readily recognized by its broadly ovate-deltoid leaf blades, with a linear acumen 
4to5cm. long. The tree is known at Mérida as ‘Alamo cubano,’’ It is a native of 
the East Indies, but is widely grown as a shade tree elsewhere in the Tropics. 
Ficus sp. 
A specimen collected in the hospital grounds at Ancén, Canal Zone, Panama (Piitier 
6523), the writer has been unable to determine. It is one of the cauliflorous species, 
the receptacles being borne in naked panicles. Probably it is an Asiatic plant. 
