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at the corners of the triangle, these appendages quite distinct 
from the areolar bracts; peduncles up to 2.5 cm long, each sup- 
plied at the apex with 3 triangular-ovate, acute bracts about 3 
mm long. Fertile female flowers only in one set of receptacles, 
numerous, their pedicels up to 2 mm long; ovary obovoid, in- 
equilateral, about 1.5 mm long; style about as long as the ovary. 
Male flowers only near the orifice in certain receptacles, about 
2.5 mm long, their perianth segments obovate to oblong-obovate, 
about 1.5 mm in length. 
SAMAR, Catubig River, Sablaya 1 (type), Bur. Sci. 24429 
Ramos, February and March, 1916. MINDANAO, Surigao Prov- 
ince, Bur. Sci. 34465 Ramos & Pascasio, April 29, 1919, in damp 
forests at low altitudes, known to the Visayans of Samar as 
tuyokay na digtoy and as tubog. 
A species of the section Covellia well characterized by its large, 
cauline tubercles or the very stout, short, prominently scarred 
branches of the infructescence and especially by bractlike ap- 
pendages on the upper part of the receptacles, these forming a 
conspicuous triangular area surrounding but distinct from the 
apical areola. 
FICUS MIRABILIS sp. nov. § Covellia. 
Arbor parva, partibus junioribus plus minusve ciliato-hirsutis ; 
foliis alternis, obovatis, usque ad 18 cm longis, scabris, brevis- 
sime acuminatis, basi angustatis, obtusis; inflorescentiis in 
ramis specialibus, simplicibus, e trunco oriundis, usque ad 3.3 
m longis; receptaculis paucis, solitariis, depresso-globosis, 1.5 
ad 2 cm diametro, sessilibus, extus perspicue brunneo-ciliato- 
setosis. 
A small tree, the younger parts more or less ciliate-hirsute 
with stiff, dark-brown, long, straight hairs. Branches terete, 
more or less ciliate-hirsute, the younger parts rather densely so. 
Leaves alternate, obovate, 15 to 18 cm long, 7 to 9 cm wide, 
scabrid on both surfaces, slightly hirsute, becoming nearly 
glabrous, shortly and sharply acuminate, margins subentire or 
entire, base narrowed, obtuse, the lower surface puncticulate, 
paler than the upper; lateral nerves about 6 on each side of the 
midrib, prominent on the lower surface; petioles 1 to 1.5 em 
long, brown-ciliate; stipules oblong, 1.5 cm long, chartaceous. 
Inflorescence from the trunk, simple, greatly elongated, either 
pendulous or spreading on the ground from the base of the tree, 
emitting rootlets, the whole inflorescence up to 3.3 m long, brown, 
terete, 5 mm in diameter, the younger parts with scattered, stiff, 
