ALAItASTllA PIIILIPPINENSIAj IT. 177 
l^oceptacles axillary^ mostly in pairs^ sessile or subsessile but prolonged 
into a pseudostalk 1-2 mm long, globose, 5-6.5 mm in diameter; pseudo- 
hermaplirodite and gall flowers in the same receptacles, but no female 
flowers seen : pseudohermaphrodite flowers very few, close beneath the 
ostiole ; the perianth segments 4, oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, ciliate, 
purplish, 1.5 mm long, 0.4 mm wide; the solitary stamen and the ovary 
not, comparatiycly, equally developed in the flowers exauiined; the fila- 
ment 0.3-0.8 mm long, rather stout, the anther oblong or obovate, 0.5 mm 
long; the rudimentary ovary with a stalk 0.6-1 mm long and 0.3 mm 
wide, the ovary itself 0.6-0.8 mm long, the style evident along its back 
almost from its base and projecting 2 mm or more from its middle or 
above; stigma very small, capitate; gall flowers except for the absence of 
the stamen very similar to the pseudohermaphrodite ones; Very short- 
m 
' pedicelled, the perianth-lobes often more or less united^ oblanccolatc, often 
falcate, 1.5 mm long, 0.4 mm wide; the stalk of the ovary 0.6-1 mm long, 
the ovary 0.9 mm long, 0.6 mm wide, obovoid, the style as above. 
Described by the different collectors as a tree attaining a height of 
10 m, with a trunk diameter of M cm, or as growing on tree-trunks, 
the bark of the younger branches yellowish or brownish, striate, glabrous; 
the leaves borne on petioles 3-18 mm long, the lamina glabrous, entire, 
oblong or nearly so, 8-20 cm long, 3.5-8.2 cm wide, acute and inaequila- 
teral at the base, at the apex abruptly contracted into a narmw acumen 
8-15 mm long, obtuse and mucronate or retuse at the apex, bluish-green 
on the upper surface, beneath light-green with yellowish veins and very 
numerous minute papillae, 3-nerved at the base, lateral veins on either 
side of the midrib 8-11, with a few intervening ones nearly as prominent, 
the lateral veins well arched, reticulations only moderately numerous but 
conspicuous, especially on the under surface; stipules lanceolate, 3-3.5 
mm long, 1 mm wide. 
Type collected at an elevafion of 100 m at San Ramon, District of Zam- 
boanga, Mindanao, by E. B. Copelaiul, No. 1606,- January 22, 1904^ also rep- 
resented by Copcland 1637, from the same locality, February 12, 1905; by 
Williams 2097, 2151, from Sax River {practically the same locality), February 
3-10, 1905; and by Ahern S'f/i, from Totunn, in the same district, May, 1901. 
Ficus Williams! i sp, nov. § Eusyce. 
Scandens vel arbor; receptaculis axillaribus, pedunculis 6-10 mm 
longis; floribus niasculinis pentameris, staminibus duobus; florikis femi- 
neis tetrameris, stylo ultra 1 mm, bifido; foliis lanceolatis, ellipticis, 
■ oblanceolatis, vel obovatis, basi acutis vel rotunda tis, apice rotundatis, vel 
breviter vel mediocriter obtuse acuminatis. 
Eeceptacles usually in pairs in the axils of present or fallen lea^'es, 
borne on slender peduncles which are 6-10 mm long, minutely pubescent, 
angled when dry; bracts at base of receptacles cupuhir, deeply divided 
into 3 semiorbicukr lobes 0.8 mm long and 1.2-1.4 mm wide, rounded 
