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above and brown beneath, smooth, glabrous, or the midrib and 
nerves beneath with a very few appressed hairs, oblong-obovate, 
often narrowly so, 17 to 28 cm long, 5 to 9 cm wide, entire, the 
apex abruptly but conspicuously acuminate, the acumen about 
1 cm long, blunt, narrowed from the upper three-fourths to the 
obtuse base, the base 1 to 1.5 cm wide, often inequilateral, some- 
times rounded-obtuse on one side and acute on the other; lateral 
nerves 4 to 6 on each side of the midrib, prominent, ascending, 
the reticulations distinct, rather close, punctate on the lower sur- 
face; petioles 1.5 to 3 cm long, glabrous; stipules numerous, 
conspicuous, oblong-ovate, persistent, densely appressed-pubes- 
cent on the back, narrowed upward, acuminate, 2 to 2.5 cm long. 
Receptacles axillary, solitary, slightly hirsute, usually distinctly 
ridged when fresh, brown when dry, ellipsoid-ovoid, about 12 
mm long; peduncles up to 4 mm in length, the apical bracts 
elliptic-ovate, rounded, thick, 3 to 4 mm long. Ostiole conspic- 
uous, up to 6 mm in diameter, the scales reniform, prominent. 
Fertile female flowers numerous, the ovaries about 1 mm long, 
the styles 1.5 mm in length. Perianth none. 
CATANDUANES, Bur. Sci. 30270 Ramos (type), December 9, 
1917, in forests along small streams back of Calolbong, at low 
altitudes. SAMAR, Catubig River, Bur. Sci. 24412 Rantos, March, 
1916, 
This species is well characterized by its leaves and by its con- 
spicuous persistent stipules. I know of no species to which it is 
closely allied. 
FICUS BINUANGENSIS sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 8 m alta, ramulis et petiolis hirsutis, subtus 
foliis ad costa nervisque plus minusve pubescens; foliis oppositis, 
membranaceis, oblongo-obovatis, integris, circiter 25 cm longis, — 
acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 8, perspicuis; inflores- 
centiis caulinis, receptaculis in ramis specialibus patulis ramo- 
sis circiter 8 cm longis dispositis, ramulis incrassatis, cicatricibus 
bracteisque multis instructis; receptaculis obovoideis, 1.5 ad 2 cm 
diametro, leviter hirsutis, pedunculatis, pedunculo 1.5 ad 2.5 cm 
longo. ’ 
A tree, about 8 m high, the branchlets and petioles rather 
densely hirsute with short hairs, the leaves more or less pubes- 
cent beneath on the midrib, nerves, and reticulations, the infruc- 
tescence cauline. Leaves opposite, equal, membranaceous, ob- 
long-obovate, entire, about 25 cm long and 12 cm wide, the apex 
rather abruptly acuminate, the acumen about 1 cm in length, 
