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not only the descriptions and figures of Gymnartocarpus vene- 
nosa (Zoll.) Boerl., but also botanical specimens with immature 
capitula and with portions of a mature fruit, from specimens 
cultivated in the Botanical Garden at Buitenzorg. The Philip- 
pine material seems to differ constantly in its longer-peduncled 
capitula, its sharply acuminate leaves, not acuminate and retuse 
as in the Javan specimens. Gymnartocarpus woodii is repre- 
sented by the following material: 
LUZON, without definite locality, Loher 6946: Cagayan Pro- 
vince, For. Bur. 6650 Klemme: Zambales Province, For. Bur. 
6080 Aguilar; For. Bur. 6331 Curran: Bataan Province, For. Bur. 
12942 Alvarez, For. Bur. 17584, 17599 Curran: Laguna Province, 
For, Bur. 11993, 15382 Tamesis, Bur. Sci. 12392 McGregor, For. 
Bur. 11652 Whitford: Camarines Province, Ahern 41, 281. MIN- 
DORO, Mount Halcon, Merrill 5557, For. Bur. 8763, 8783 Merritt. 
LEYTE, Bur. Sci. 15184 Ramos. Bucas, Merrill 5259 (type). 
The species is known in Laguna as anubing-cagyos and anu- 
bing-na-nangca; in Bataan as malananca and sulipa; in Zambales 
as pongi; and in Cagayan as buratu. There is no record that 
the sap is at all poisonous. 
FICUS Linnaeus 
FICUS ELLIPTIFOLIA sp. nov. § Urostigma. 
Arbor circiter 15 m alta, ramulis receptaculisque exceptis 
glabra; foliis ellipticis, coriaceis, utrinque rotundatis, usque ad 
12 cm longis, petiolatis, nervis utrinque circiter 7, subtus per- 
spicuis ; receptaculis axillaribus, sessilibus, solitariis, ebracteatis, 
ellipsoideis, 3.5 ad 4 cm longis, extus perspicue adpresse setoso- 
hirsutis. 
A tree, nearly glabrous, the branches terete, wrinkled when 
dry, pale reddish-brown, glabrous, the branchlets more or less 
appressed-hirsute with stiff brownish hairs. Leaves alternate, 
elliptic, coriaceous, rather pale when dry, 9 to 12 cm long, 4.5 
to 6 cm wide, entire, usually subequally rounded at both ends, 
or the base somewhat narrowed, the apex sometimes merely 
blunt; lateral nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib, prom- 
inent on the lower surface, looped-anastomosing, the ultimate 
reticulations rather dense; petioles 1.5 to 2.5 cm long. Recep- 
tacles axillary, solitary, sessile, ellipsoid, 3.5 to 4 cm long, about 
2 cm in diameter, coarsely wrinkled when dry, umbilicus prom- 
inent at the apex, base somewhat narrowed, outside with ap- 
pressed, brownish-yellow, shining, stiff, long, bristle-like hairs, 
the bracts none or very early deciduous. 
