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about 1 cm. long, both surfaces somewhat shining, the upper glabrous, the lower 

 paler, slightly pubescent on the nerves and midrib; nerves about 4 on eacli side of 

 the midrib, prominent beneath, ascending, anastomosing, the primary reticulations 

 distinct; petioles, pubescent, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long; stipules caducous, ovate lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, densely pubescent. Receptacles in fascicles on the larger branches, 

 3 to G or more fruits in each fascicle, depressed globose or obovoid, about 1.4 

 cm. in diameter, glabrous, rugose when dry, yellowish when fresh, the pedicels 

 slender, glabrous, about 1.5 cm. long, with three small bracteoles at the apex. 

 Male flowers not seen. Fertile female flowers numerous. Perianth 4-lobed, lan- 

 ceolate, 1 to 1.5 mm. long. Ovary obovoid, about 1.5 mm. long, the style lateral, 

 stout, about 1 mm. long. 



(2849 Meyer) March. In forests river canon at about 900 m. Apparently 

 related to Ficua sycomoroides Miq., from Amboina. 



11. F. variegata Blume; King, 1. c. 1G9. pi. 212; Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 

 17 (1904) 14. 



(354, 601 Barnes) March; (171 Merrill). Decades Philippine Forest Fl.j coll. 

 Borden, April; (779, 1177, 1551, 1G25 Borden) May, August. In forests 100 to 

 200 m. Malaya. T., Tangisang bayauac. 



§ Sycidium. 



12. F. ampelas Burm. ; King. 1. c. 90. pi. 11',. 



(587 Barties) March; (G81 Borden) May; (275 Merrill) Decades Philippine 

 Forest FI., coll. Borden, August. In forests 150 to 200 m., not previously reported 

 from the Philippines. Malaya. 



13. F. hauili Blanco, Fl. Filip. ed. 1 (1837) 684; ed. 2 (1845) 475. 



(1677, 2014, Borden) August, October; (1475 Ahern's collector) July; (6771 

 Elmer) November. In thickets and open forests below 150 m., abundant and 

 widely distributed in the Philippines, apparently endemic. T., Hauili. 



No. 2839 Meyer, from forests at 1,100 m., is similar to the above specimens 

 except that it has small apparently immature fruits. 



14. F. rostrata Lam.; King. I. c. 80. pi. 110. 



(6159 Leiberg) July; (2851, 3110 Meyer) March, May; (1210 Borden) June. 

 In forests 800 to 1,100 m., scandent. British India and Malaya. T., Baletc. 



15. F. sinuosa Miq.; Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 7 (1848) 232. 



(6023 Leiberg) July; (2522 Meyer) February; (777, 2559 Borden) May, 

 February. Abundant in thickets below 100 m., widely distributed in the Philip- 

 pines. Endemic (?). T., Isis. 



One of the most common species of the genus in the Philippines, and exceedingly 

 variable, reduced by King to Ficus hcterophylla Linn., but Ficus sinuosa is always 

 an erect shrub, never scandent. 



16. Ficus validicaudata Merrill, sp. nov. 



A small tree 7 to 8 in. high with small, lanceolate to ovate lanceolate very 

 long-caudate-acuminate leaves, and small axillary solitary long peduncled recep- 

 tacles. Branches slender, brown, glabrous or slightly scabrous pubescent. Leaves 

 3 to G cm. long, 0.8 to 1.5 cm. wide, sometimes 10 cm. long and nearly 3 cm. 

 wide, subcoriaceous, scabrous, shining, not at all pubescent, entire, the base acute, 

 3-nerved, the apex long narrowly caudate acuminate, the acumen one third to 

 nearly one half as long as the blade; nerves 4 to 5 on each side of the midrib, 

 distant, rather distinct beneath, anastomosing, the reticulations distinct, lax; 

 petioles 3 to 4 mm. long; stipules glabrous, lanceolate, caducous, about 4 mm. 

 long. Receptacles subglobose, glabrous, red when mature, 4 to 5 mm. in diam- 

 eter, the peduncles slender, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, with three small bracts at the 

 apex. Fertile female flowers sessile or pedicelled; perianth lobes 5, free, 1.5 to 



