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rather crowded. Cups up to 1.4 cm in diameter and 8 mm high, 
obscurely puberulent externally, appressed-pubescent inside, 
truncate, each composed of about 7 concentric, distantly and 
obscurely denticulate laminz, the lower laminz distant, the 
upper ones approximate, the scales quite united. Gland ovoid, 
apiculate, externally gray-puberulent, about 1.5 cm long and 1.2 
cm in diameter. 
LEYTE, Buenavista, near Jaro, Wenzel 1157 (type), in fruit, 1008, with 
male flowers, October 12 and July 18, 1914. In forests, altitude about 
500 m. 
A species belonging in the group with Quercus mindananesis Elm., from 
which it is at once distinguished by being nearly glabrous. In vegetative 
characters it somewhat resembles Quercus lipacon Elm., but its fruits are 
entirely different. 
MORACEAE 
FICUS Linnaeus 
FICUS JAROENSIS sp. nov. § Husyce. 
Frutex scandens foliis utrinque ramulisque parce longe ciliatis ; 
foliis alternis, oblongis, coriaceis, usque ad 15 cm longis, apice 
acuminatis, basi late rotundatis ad leviter cordatis, supra pallide 
viridis, subtus plus minusve brunneis, integris, margine recur- 
vatis, nervis utrinque circiter 6, supra impressis, subtus valde 
prominentibus; receptaculis axillaribus, solitariis vel binis, sub- 
globosis, glabris, breviter pedunculatis, circiter 1 cm diametro. 
A scandent shrub reaching a height of 20 meters, the young 
branches and the leaves on both surfaces sparingly ciliate with 
long, scattered, more or less spreading, rather pale hairs. 
Branches terete, reddish-brown, sparingly papillate, the hairs 
from the papillae. Leaves alternate, oblong, coriaceous, 8 to 
15 em long, 3.5 to 5.5 cm wide, prominently acuminate, base 
broadly rounded to obscurely cordate, margins entire, recurved, 
the upper surface pale greenish when dry, shining, with scattered 
papille, the hairs from the papille, the lower surface brownish, 
the hairs more numerous than on the upper surface; lateral 
nerves about 6 on each side of the midrib, these and the primary 
reticulations impressed on the upper surface, very prominent 
on the lower surface, the nerves curved-ascending, anastomosing ; 
petioles about 1.5 cm long, reddish-brown, sparingly ciliate with 
long, spreading hairs. Receptacles axillary, solitary or in pairs, 
glabrous, globose, about 1 cm in diameter, brown when dry, 
smooth, their peduncles 4 to 6 mm long, with three broadly ovate 
bracteoles about 1 mm in length at the base of the peduncle. 
Fertile female flowers subsessile to stipitate, the perianth seg- 
