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IX, C, 8 Merrill: Noteworthy Philippine Plants 273 
mm long, the perianth brown, chartaceous or coriaceous, irreg- 
ularly 3-lobed, the lobes short, the perianth itself glabrous, about 
2 mm in diameter. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, For. Bur. 17806 Curran (type), January, 
1912, Bur. Sci. 7399 Ramos, March, 1909: Province of Tayabas, Piapi, 
For. Bur. 10184 Curran, March, 1908, all the specimens indicated as grow- 
ing on the banks of rivers, and from their “stenophyllous” leaves, appar- 
ently in places subject to submergence in times of floods or high water. 
The specimens have been previously referred to Ficus linearifolia Elmer, 
with which they have very little relationship, except some resemblance in 
leaf-form, and manifestly the present species belongs in an entirely different 
section from Elmer’s species. The very narrow, entire, slenderly caudate- 
acuminate, somewhat falcate leaves which are white-puncticulate beneath 
are characteristic. 
FICUS LAGUNENSIS sp. nov. § Husyce. 
Frutex scandens, glaber, vel ramulis parcissime ciliato-hirsu- 
tus; foliis alternis, ovatis vel oblongo-ovatis, coriaceis, in siccitate 
plus minusve brunneis, usque ad 20 cm longis, acuminatis, basi 
late cordatis, integris; nervis utrinque circiter 7, subtus cum 
reticulisque valde prominentibus; receptaculis axillaribus, soli- 
tariis vel fasciculatis, obovoideis, glabris, pedunculatis, circiter 
7mm diametro. 
A scandent shrub, the young branchlets sometimes emitting 
rootlets, glabrous or nearly so. Branches terete, brown, wrin- 
kled when dry, glabrous or with few scattered long hairs. Leaves 
alternate, coriaceous, ovate to oblong-ovate, 10 to 20 cm long, 
5 to 10 cm wide, entire, the apex acuminate, the base broadly 
rounded, cordate, the upper surface glabrous, shining, the 
nerves impressed, the lower surface very prominently reticulate, 
glabrous or with very scattered hairs along the midrib and pri- 
mary nerves; lateral nerves 7 on each side of the midrib, very 
prominent, the anastomosing, primary reticulations subparallel ; 
petioles 1.5 to 3 cm long, somewhat ciliate-pubescent or glabrous; 
stipules lanceolate, acuminate, deciduous, about 1.5 em long. 
Receptacles axillary, solitary or fascicled, obovoid, glabrous, 
smooth, about 7 mm in diameter, their peduncles 5 to 8 mm in. 
length. 
Luzon, Province of Laguna, Dahican River, back of San Antonio, Phil. 
Pi. 1128 Ramos, September 17, 1912, in forests. 
A species very similar to and manifestly closely allied to Ficus pro- 
pingua Merr., and to Ficus villosa Bl., perhaps even too closely allied to 
the former to be distinguished as a true species. Its glabrous receptacles 
and leaves distinguish it from Blume’s species, while from the Philippine 
F. propinqua it. is distinguishable by its longer peduncled, obovoid, not glo- 
bose receptacles, its glabrous or nearly glabrous leaves, and its only slightly 
,tirsute branchlets. 
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