20, 4 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants, XVII 869 
slender, distinct’as are the rather close reticulations; petioles 
reddish-brown when dry, 5 to 7 cm long; stipules broadly ovate, 
Shortly acuminate, pubescent, about 6 mm long. Receptacles 
borne in fascicles along the ultimate branches below the leaves, 
' usually 3 or 4 in a fascicle, the fascicles numerous, the individual 
receptacles globose to slightly obovoid, 6 to 7 mm in diameter, 
very densely and softly pubescent with silver white to pale ferru- 
ginous hairs, their peduncles densely pubescent, about 5 mm 
long, the bracts subtending the receptacles broadly ovate, obtuse, 
glabrous or slightly pubescent, 1.5 to 2 mm long. Male flowers 
few, only near the ostiole, the stamen 1, about 0.5 mm long. 
Ovaries of the gall flowers and fertile female flowers ovoid, about 
1 mm long, the styles of the former about 0.5 mm in length, 
those of the latter 1 mm long. Perianth segments membra- 
naceous, oblong-lanceolate, about 1 mm long. 
MINDORO, Paluan, Bur. Sci. 39782 Ramos, April 9, 1921. In 
dry forests at low altitudes. 
This species is closely allied to Ficus stipulosa Miq. which has 
been reduced by some authors to the widely distributed Indo- 
Malayan Ficus infectoria Roxb. It is readily distinguished by 
its very densely pale pubescent peduncles and _ receptacles. 
Blanco described the receptacles as flowers and the subtending 
bracts as the calyx. The specimens on which the above descrip- 
tion was based agree very closely with Blanco’s original descrip- 
tion except that the leaves are scarcely undulate, while the recep- 
tacles are globose to slightly obovoid rather than “de figura de 
trompa,” that is, pyriform. I have seen no other species of 
Ficus that even remotely agrees with Blanco’s imperfect de- 
scription and am confident that the plant here considered repre- 
sents the form he so imperfectly described. In my Species 
Blancoanae (1918) 129, I expressed the opinion that Ficus 
argentea Blanco might have been based on immature specimens 
of Ficus ruficaulis Merr. but the recent receipt of material agree- 
ing essentially with Blanco’s description shows that this surmise 
was wrong. 
FICUS XAVIERI sp. nov. § Urostigma. 
Species F. benjaminae simillimis et affinis differt receptaculis 
dense et molliter cinereo-pubescentibus. 
A strangling fig reaching a height of 10 m or more, branches 
and receptacles densely and softly cinereous-pubescent. 
Branches glabrous, terete, grayish, the younger ones more or 
less rugose, the young branchlets 2 to 2.5 mm in diameter. 
