548 LEAFLETS oy PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, ART. 26 
the section Sycidium. The leaves are larger than in Merrill ’s 
species and fairly well match F, tayabensis Elm., but the 
fruits are subsessile ab least and subtended by 3 brown 
bracts which are nearly obsolete in my number 8266 from 
Lucban. So far only collected in central Mindanao, the 
type locality. 
Ficus crassitora Elm. n. sp. 
A slender tree, 10 to 15 m. high; stem 2 to 3 dm. thick; 
the main branches arising from above the middle, divaricately 
spreading; wood white, bark mottled; twigs lax, glabrous. 
Leaves coriaceous, flat or recurved toward the tip, dull and dark 
green above, yellowish green beneath, alternate, entire, elongated 
oblong, 12 to 15 em. long, 3 to 5 em. wide across the mid- 
dle, similarly tapering toward both ends, the point of the 
apex blunt, leaving large scars after falling; petiole stout, 
1 em. long, glabrous, caniculate on the upper side; mid- 
nerve very conspicuous beneath and frequently strigose especial 
ly in the early stage, somewhat grooved on the upper side; 
the lateral 7 to 9 pairs comparatively prominent beneath, 
divaricate, united 3 to 5 mm. from the margin, reticulations 
very evident beneath; bud scales 3 cm. long, subfalcate, 
slenderly and sharply acuminate, yellowish gray strigose on 
the back, brown and glabrous on the ventral surface. 
Receptacles usually solitary from the upper leaf axils, 
hard, smooth, subglobose, 2 to 3 em. in diameter, apparently 
turning apple red when fully mature and if exposed to the 
sun; the torus very thick; peduncle more or less 5 mm. 
long, pulverulent or glabrous, ebracteate; umbilicus flat, small, 
sunken; individual flowers of 3 kinds, all light red; stam- 
inate flowers diandrous, few, concealed beneath the um- 
bilieus, 2.5 mm, long including the short thick pedicel; 
its perianth much exceeding the stamens, ultimately 3 to 5- 
segmented; filaments 0.5 mm. long, glabrous, confluent at 
the base; anthers as long, broadly ellipsoid; gall flowers of 
2 distinct types; the primary ones 4.5 mm. long, sparse, 
upon a 2.5 mm. long pedicel; its perianth of 3 oblong 1.5 
mm. long deep brown segments; insect ovary yellowish or 
straw color, broadly ellipsoid, 1.25 mm. long, sessile; style 
arising from the middle of tbe ovary, upwardly curved over 
