viii. c. 6 Merrill: Plantae Wenzelianae 357 
A shrub about 4 m high. Branchlets terete, slender, pale- 
brown, somewhat striate- wrinkled when dry, somewhat hispid 
with short, scattered, stiff hairs. Leaves alternate, narrowly 
oblong to oblong-lanceolate, somewhat falcate, chartaceous, entire, 
rather bright-green on both surfaces when dry, somewhat shin^ 
ing, distinctly roughened by minute papillae on both surfaces, 
22 to 25 cm long, 6 to 7 cm wide, the base inequilateral, distinctly 
oblique, one side acute, the other narrowly rounded and extending 
along the midrib several mm farther than the narrower side, the 
apex long and slenderly caudate-acuminate, the acumen 2 to 2.5 
cm long; lateral nerves about 12 on each side of the midrib, promi- 
nent, distant, anastomosing, the reticulations lax, distinct; petioles 
about 2 mm long, hispid-hirsute ; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 
about 1 mm long. Receptacles axillary, fascicled, up to 6' in each 
axil, red, subglobose to globose-ovoid, 5 to 7 mm in diameter, 
externally scabrid-hispid, the peduncles hispid-hirsute, about 3 
mm long, each with about 3, distant, scattered, ovate to oblong- 
ovate bracts less than 1 mm long, and also with usually 2 or 
3 similar bracts on the lower one-half of the receptacle itself. 
Fertile female flowers numerous, sessile, the perianth membrana- 
ceous, deeply cut into 4, narrowly lanceolate, sparingly hispid, 
2 to 2.2 mm long lobes, the ovary narrowly oblong-ovoid, strongly 
inequilateral, 1.5 mm long, smooth, the base subtruncate, attached 
by one side, the apex obtuse, bearing the style on the same side 
as the basal attachment, the style about 1 mm long, narrowly 
clavate. 
Leyte, Dagami, C. A, Wenzel 1^, June 22, 1913, in forests, the trunk 
reaching a diameter of 10 cm. 
A species apparently manifestly allied to FicuB celebica Blume, F, pisifera 
Wall., etc., but distinguished at once by its much longer, more numerously 
nerved leaves. 
FICUS WEN2ELII sp. nov. (% Sycidium ?) 
Frutex circiter 4 m altus, plus minusve hirsutus; ramulis 
teretibus, hirsutis, brunneis; foliis late obovatis ad obovatis vel 
ovatis, chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, usque ad 30 cm longis, subin- 
tegris, apice tenuiter acuminatis, basi leviter inaequilateraliter 
cordatis, 7- vel 9-nerviis, in siccitate subtus brunneis, puncticula- 
tis, parce hispido-hirsutis, nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 
10; receptaculis hirsutis, axillaribus, solitariis, late obovoideis, 1 
ad 1.5 cm diametro (immaturis). 
A shrub about 4 m high. Branches brown, terete, prominently 
hirsute, the ultimate ones about 5 mm in diameter. Leaves 
opposite, firmly chartaceous to subcoriaceous, broadly obovate to 
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