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somewhat narrowed below to the rounded base, the upper surface 
brown, smooth, glabrous, the lower surface paler, the midrib, 
nerves and reticulations brown in contrast to the paler epidermis; 
lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, prominent, 
curved-ascending, the reticulations distinct; petioles about 2.5 cm 
long. Receptacles numerous, reddish, somewhat obovoid, rugose 
when dry and 1 to 2 cm in diameter, probably larger when fresh, 
sparingly hirsute, borne on specialized thickened branches, cau- 
line; infructescences about 8 cm in length, these infructescences 
spreading, branched from the base, the ultimate branches about 
5 mm in diameter marked with numerous scars of fallen pedicels 
and toward their apices supplied with numerous, broadly ovate, 
more or less persistent, coriaceous bracts up to 4 mm in length; 
peduncles 1.5 to 2.5 cm long, sparingly hirsute, 3-bracteate at the 
apex, the bracts oblong-ovate, obtuse, about 3.5 mm long. Re- 
ceptacles containing fertile female flowers only, these very 
numerous, their pedicels up to 2.5 mm long. Ovary obliquely 
ovoid to somewhat obovoid, 1.5 mm long; style about as long as 
the ovary ; perianth none or very rudimentary. 
LUZON, Tayabas Province, Mount Binuang, Bur. Sct. 28831 
Ramos & Edaiio, May 13, 1917, in forests at low altitudes. 
It ig suspected from the vegetative characters of this species 
that it belongs in the same section with Ficus paucinervia 
Merr. although it has the infructescence of species belonging in 
the section Covellia. 
FICUS FISKE! Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 1 (1906) 195. 
This apparently distinct species is of wide distribution in the 
Philippines, and is represented by the following specimens: 
LUZON, Ilocos Norte Province, Bur. Sci. 33042 Ramos: Rizal 
Province, Loher 4917, Bur. Sci. 5207, 4643, 1119, 13745 Ramos: 
Laguna Province, Bur. Sci. 6052 Robinson: without definite 
locality, Vidal 3802, 3816: Tayabas Province, Bur. Sci. 19551 
Ramos: Sorsogon Province, For. Bur. 10547 Curran, Bur. Sci. 
23401 Ramos, Elmer 7304. POLILLO, Bur. Sci. 6929 Robinson. 
LEYTE, Elmer 7185, 7324 (type number). SAMAR, Bur. Sci. 
17445, 24503 Ramos. CEBU, Bur. Sci. 1708 McGregor. SAMAR, 
Piper 353, 370. MINDANAO, Butuan Subprovince, Piper 296: 
Agusan Subprovince, Elmer 18315. 
Var. CEBUENSIS var. nov. 
A typo differt foliis profunde sinuato-lobatis, receptaculis 
spinuloso-hispidulis, fasciculatis, in axillis defoliatis, pedunculis 
longioribus. 
