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reveal the plant and I could find n<> natives who knew the word "Tiaun" as a 

 plant name. However, as the country for many miles about Calumpit is under 

 rather close cultivation, it is apparent that the original vegetation of the region 

 has almost entirely been removed. 



MORACEiE. 



FICUS Linn. 



Ficus anomala .Merrill sp. nov. * Palaeomorphe. 



A tree about 10 in. high with elliptical-ovate, abruptly short acuminate 

 scabrous leaves, the receptacles globose to obovoid, yellow, scabrous, in 

 large fascicles on the trunk and Larger branches. Branches brownish 

 gray, glabrous, the branchlets also glahrous except at the slightly ciliate 

 tips. Leaves suhmemhranous, 10 to 10 cm. long, (i to 1 1 cm. wide, slightly 

 shining, harsh on both surfaces hat not pubescent, the margins subentire 

 or very obscurely undulate-erenate, the base broad, rounded, truncate 

 or somewhat cordate, often somewhat inequilateral, the basal nerves 5 

 to 7, the outer ones short; primary lateral nerves about T on each side 

 of the midrib, prominent, the reticulations distinct, lax, subparallel ; 

 petioles '.] to 7 cm. long. Receptacles \<.'vy numerous, often nearly con- 

 cealing the trunk and larger branches, in usually large fascicles of short, 

 stout, congested 1 to '? cm. long branchlets, yellow when mature, scabrous. 

 nearly "i cm. in diameter when fresh, considerably smaller when dry. the 

 pedicels ebracteolate, 1 to 2 cm. long. Male (lowers numerous near the 

 ostiole, monandrous and with a rudimentary ovary, the perianth segments 



I. five, enclosing and exceeding the stamen, oblong, about '2 mm. long. 

 slightly ciliate above. Filament stout, about 1 mm. long: anther 

 elliptical-ovoid, 1 mm. long. Rudimentary ovary less than 1 mm. long. 

 Gall flowers numerous, the perianth lohes -f, free, linear, blunt, ciliate 

 above, much exceeding the ovary which is elliptical ovoid, 1.5 mm. long, 

 the style less than 1 .mm. long, lateral. Fertile female flowers not seen. 



LUZON, Province of Kizal, Montalban (5075 Merrill), March 10, 1000. A tree 

 about 10 m. high and 30 cm. in diameter growing along small streams in thickets 

 at an altitude of about 40 m. Anomalous for the section Palaeomorphe in that 

 the receptacles are not axillary but borne in large fascicles on the trunk and 

 branches as in many species of the sections Curcllia and Neomorphe. 



PARATROPHIS Blume. 



Paratrophis caudata Merrill sp. nov. 



A small tret' about <S m. tall, the young branches puherulent or gla- 

 brous, green, slender. Leaves broadly oblong-lanceolate or oblong-oblan- 

 ceolate, submembranous, glabrous, shining, the base obtuse, the apex 

 abruptly caudate-acuminate, the acumen obtuse, above with scattered 

 minute white glands, the margins irregularly crenate-serrate. 1 to 1*3 

 cm. long, 'i to 5.5 cm. wide; nerves 7 to <S on both sides of the midrib, 

 prominent beneath, anastomosing; petioles 1 to 2.5 nun. long. Stam- 

 inate inflorescence axillary, solitary, spieate, amentiform, 4 to (i cm. long. 



