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basal pair of nerves not much different from the lateral ones; 
lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, slender, not 
much more prominent than are the intervening secondary ones, 
anastomosing, the reticulations rather close, not puncticulate; 
petioles 1.5 to 2 cm long; bud-scales lanceolate, acuminate, about 
7 mm long. Receptacles axillary, solitary or in pairs, in the 
axils of leaves or on the branchlets in the axils of recently fallen 
leaves, apparently fleshy, globose to somewhat obovoid, 8 to 10 
mm in diameter, their peduncles stout, 2 to 3 mm long, each 
receptacle subtended by 3 bracts which are connate by their 
margins below, forming an involucre about 6 mm in diameter, 
the lobes broadly rounded, short. 
McGregor 384 (type), 400, 564, Mrs. Clemens s. n., locally known as nunu. 
Probably as closely allied to Ficus infectoria as to any other species, 
but distinguished by its short-peduncled, somewhat larger receptacles, its 
petioles scarcely jointed. It greatly resembles Ficus carolinensis Warb., 
from Island of Yap, but in that species the bracts are free, not connate. 
This is apparently the first species enumerated by Safford, p. 275, without 
specific name. 
FICUS SAFFORDII sp. nov. § Urostigma. 
Arbor glabra; foliis subcoriaceis, ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, 
utrinque puncticulatis, usque ad 8 cm longis, basi late rotundatis, 
leviter cordatis, apice breviter obtuse acuminatis, nervis pri- 
mariis utringue circiter 10; receptaculis axillaribus, sessilibus, 
globosis, 5 ad_6 mm diametro. 
A glabrous tree, size not indicated, apparently starting as an 
epiphyte, later assuming a tree-like form, quite glabrous. 
Branches and branchlets terete, dark reddish-brown, somewhat 
lenticellate, somewhat wrinkled when dry. Leaves alternate, 
subcoriaceous, smooth, entire, ovate to oblong-ovate, 5 to 8 
cm long, 8 to 5 cm wide, the base broadly rounded, usually very 
shallowly cordate, the apex shortly and obtusely acuminate, the 
upper surface dark-colored when dry, slightly shining, rather 
densely pale-puncticulate under a lens, the lower surface a little 
paler, slightly shining, also puncticulate; primary lateral nerves 
about 10 on each side of the midrib, not much more prominent 
than are the secondary ones, the reticulations rather close, not 
prominent; petioles 1.5 to 2.5 cm long; bud-scales lanceolate, 
acuminate, about 1 cm long. Receptacles axillary, globose, 
sessile, 5 to 6 mm in diameter, one in each axil, on the ultimate 
branchlets, usually in the axils of leaves, more rarely in the 
axils of fallen leaves, each subtended by two broadly ovate, 
rounded, 2.5 to 3 mm long bracts which are nearly free, their 
margins slightly connate below. 
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