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brown hairs and with numerous, chartaceous, ovate, obtuse, 
brown-setose bracts 1 cm long or less. Receptacles few and 
only near the end of the inflorescence, depressed-globose, sessile, 
1.5 to 2 em in diameter, covered with brown, stiff, shining, 
elongated hairs. . 
LuzON, Laguna Province, San Antonio, Bur. Sct. 20395 Ramos, 
February, 1913 (type): Camarines Province, Paracale, Bur. 
Sci. 338490 Ramos & Edafo, December, 1918: Bontoc Subprovince, 
Vanoverbergh 3970, 1354. 
A species to be compared with Ficus geocarpa Teysm., remark- 
able for its elongated, unbranched, specialized infructescences 
which spread on the ground from the base of the trunks. In 
vegetative characters it is very distinct from Teysmann’s spe- 
cies as figured by King. 
FICUS CONFERTIFOLIA sp. nov. § Husyce. 
Frutex erectus, circiter 3 m altus, glaberrimus, multiramosus; 
foliig confertis, coriaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-ovatis, integris, 
usque ad 3.5 cm longis, in siccitate pallidis, acutis vel leviter 
acuminatis, basi acutis, triplinerviis, nervis utrinque 4 ad 6, 
subtus brunneo-puncticulatis; receptaculis axillaribus, peduncu- 
latis, ovoideis, circiter 6 mm diametro; floribus ¢ diandris. 
An erect, entirely glabrous, much-branched shrub about 3 
m high, the branches and branchlets stiff, terete, reddish-brown, 
the bark somewhat papery, the ultimate branchlets somewhat 
fastigiate. Leaves numerous, crowded on the ultimate branch- 
lets, oblong to oblong-ovate, coriaceous, brittle, 2 to 3.5 cm long, 
1 to 1.7 cm wide, entire, brown when dry, slightly shining, apex 
acute or slightly acuminate, base acute, distinctly 3-plinerved, 
the primary lateral nerves above the basal pair 4 to 6, slender, 
spreading, anastomosing, the lower surface brown-puncticulate ; 
petioles 3 to 5 mm long. Receptacles axillary, solitary, ovoid, 
smooth, brown when dry, about 6 mm in diameter, their pe- 
duncles up to 9 mm in length, 3-bracteate at the apex, the bracts 
small, ovate. Staminate and gall flowers in the same receptacle, 
both numerous. Staminate flowers pedicellate, the pedicels up 
to 1.2 mm long, with a conspicuous, ovate, acuminate, 1 mm-long 
bracteole; perianth segments usually 3, brown, ovate, acuminate, 
1 to 1.2 mm long; stamens two, the anthers about 1 mm long. 
Gall flowers: perianth segments lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat 
curved, 1.8 mm long, brown; ovary somewhat obovoid, 1.2 mm 
long; style slender, sublateral. 
