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brown and shining when dry, smooth, oblong-elliptic, 14 to 23 
cm long, 7 to 11 cm wide, entire, 3-plinerved, base rounded, apex 
abruptly and usually slenderly acutely acuminate, the acumen 
1.5 to 2 cm long; primary lateral nerves prominent, spreading, 
straight, 10 to 12 on each side of the midrib, anastomosing near 
the margin, the reticulations rather lax, anastomosing between 
each two lateral nerves into less distinct secondary nervs; petioles 
2.5 cm long; bud-scales lanceolate, acuminate, 1.5 cm long, 
appressed-hirsute. Receptacles axillary, solitary, sessile, ellip- 
soid, brown when dry, smooth or somewhat warted, 3 to 3.5 
cm long, 2 to 2.56 cm in diameter, the apex rounded, the umbil- 
icus distinct. Basal bracts 3, reniform, brown, coriaceous, 3 
mm long, 5 mm wide. Gall flowers numerous, their perianth 
segments usually 3, about 2 mm long. Male flowers few and 
chiefly near the orifice, anthers 1 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Camarines, Niog, Phil. Pl. 1547 Ramos, December 
17, 1918, locally known as balete. 
A species well characterized by its large, ellipsoid, sessile, solitary, axil- 
lary receptacles. Its alliance is apparently with Ficus forstenii Miq. (F. 
vidaliana Warb.) from which it differs in its much larger receptacles and 
larger leaves. 
FICUS PRODUCTA sp. nov. § Sycidium. 
Frutex erectus, circiter 2 m altus, foliis utrinque ramulisque 
scaberulis; foliis alternis, subcoriaceis, usque ad 18 cm longis, 
oblongis ad oblongo-obovatis vel ovato-ellipticis, aequilateralibus, 
basi 3-nerviis, acutis vel obtusis, apice longe tenuiter caudato- 
acuminatis, margine irregulariter grosse dentatis vel dentato- 
serratis, haud lobatis, in siccitate subviridis, nervis utrinque 
circiter 8, subtus cum reticulis valde prominentibus; receptaculis 
axillaribus, solitariis vel in paribus dispositis, subglobosis vel 
leviter obovoideis, scabridis, pedunculatis, 8 ad 10 mm diametro. 
An erect shrub about 2 m high, scabrid. Branches terete, 
slender, pale-brownish when dry, glabrous, the branchlets 
scabrid. Leaves alternate, rather prominently scabrid in both 
surfaces, otherwise glabrous, oblong to oblong-obovate or even 
ovate-elliptic, 12 to 18 cm long, 4 to 7 cm wide, equilateral, the 
base shortly 3-nerved, acute or obtuse, the apex rather abruptly 
long and slenderly caudate-acuminate, the acumen 2 to 3.5 cm 
long, narrow at the base, entire, acute or apiculate, the margins 
rather coarsely dentate or dentate-serrate, not lobed, the teeth 
irregular, mostly 5 mm apart or more, both surfaces when dry 
somewhat greenish, shining, scabrid, the lower very slightly paler 
than the upper; lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, 
very prominent on the lower surface, anastomosing, the reticula- 
