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peduncles about 3 mm long, stout, thickened upward, and with 
three broadly ovate-subreniform bracts at the apex about 1.2 
mm in length. Male flowers only near the orifice; stamens 1, 
the anthers 0.8 mm long. Gall flowers numerous, sessile to 
pedicelled, the ovaries ellipsoid, 1.2 to 1.5 mm long when mature. 
SAMAR, Yabong, Phil. Pl. 1605 Ramos, April, 1914, on for- 
ested slopes; Catubig River, Bur. Sci. 24338 Ramos, March, 1916. 
A species characterized by its brownish, rather narrow leaves 
which are subequally and gradually narrowed at both ends. It 
remotely resembles Ficus philippinensis Miq., but is entirely 
distinct from that species. 
FICUS APPENDICULATA sp. nov. § Covellia. 
Arbor usque ad 10 m alta, glabra; foliis alternis, chartaceis, 
ellipticis ad oblongo-obovatis, 10 ad 20 cm longis, basi rotundatis 
ad acutis admodum plus minusve inaequilateralibus, apice acu- 
minatis, nervis utrinque 8 ad 10, conspicuis; inflorescentiis 
caulinis, e tuberculis magnis usque ad 3 cm diametro, vel ramosis, 
_ Yramis paucis vel numerosis, crassis, usque ad 4 em longis, 
' cicatricibus magnis instructis; receptaculis numerosis, obovoideis 
ad depresso-globosis, in siccitate usque ad 2.5 cm diametro, 
pedunculatis, partibus superioribus bracteis 3 perspicuis, dis- 
tantibus triangulariter dispositis instructis. 
A tree, up to 10 m high, glabrous or nearly so throughout. 
Leaves alternate, chartaceous, elliptic to oblong or somewhat 
oblong-obovate, usually brownish when dry, 10 to 20 cm long, 4 
te 10 cm wide, the base broadly rounded to acute, sometimes more 
or less inequilateral, the apex rather distinctly acuminate, the 
margins entire to undulate or obscurely and irregularly toothed ; 
lateral nerves 8 to 10 on each side of the midrib, conspicuous; 
petioles 1.5 to 3 cm long; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, de- 
ciduous, about 1.5 cm long. Inflorescences cauline and on the 
larger branches, the receptacles numerous, green, borne on very 
large, stout tubercles up to 3 cm in diameter or the inflorescences 
composed of few to many, very stout branches up to 4 cm in 
length, these marked with numerous large conspicuous scars of 
fallen peduncles. Receptacles numerous, obovoid to depressed- 
globose, when young somewhat pubescent, glabrous at maturity, 
brown, conspicuously rugose when dry and up to 2.5 cm in diam- 
eter, when fresh green and apparently about 4 cm in diameter, 
the apical portion with a conspicuous triangular area varying 
from 1 to 2 cm in diameter and marked by the coriaceous, 
somewhat spreading, broadly triangular bractlike appendages 
