47 
=“ 
mm. across; style subterminal, slender, pale yellow; stigma 
dark brown, clavate, and in early stages appear to be united. 
This shrubby fig is evidently closely related to F. decais- 
neana Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2; 312, 1859. The latter, however, 
has umbonate short pedunculate and ebracteolate receptacles 
less than 5 mm. in diameter; and according to the figure 
in the Anns. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. 1; 1887, pl. 3, it has a 
prominently raised umbilicus and a capitate stigma. There are 
also some leaf differences. F. ewcaudata Elm. also differs from 
Miquel’s F. acuminatissima in Lond. Journ. Bot. 7; 233, 1848 col- 
lected by Cuming in Luzon, in its coriaceous leaves which are 
always wholly entire, caudate at least instead of acutely acumi- 
nate and with fewer perfectly glabrous nerves. Type specimen 
number 8003 was collected in thickets near Baguio. Number 
8023 collected in the woods at Twin Peaks is a form of this 
species. It is extremely pretty with the globose strawberry 
colored pendulous fruits beneath the lucid green foliage. 
5. F. confusa n. sp. A scandent shrub, clinging tightly 
about the bases of large trees or straggling in thickets; stem the 
size of a man’s small finger covered with smooth yellowish bark. 
Membranous leaves ovate lanceolate, 10 to 16 cm. in length, 4 
to 7 cm. in width, wholly glabrous on both surfaces or pulver- 
ulent beneath, slightly inequilateral, apex acuminate, base 
obtuse or acute, edges entire; veins not prominent, brownish, 10 
pairs including the basal one, reticulations irregular; petioles 
lem. in length, thick, deciduous at the base, yellowish and 
becoming scaly. 
Receptacles usually two from the axils of the leaf scars, 
yellowish when mature, 7 mm. in diameter, nearly globose 
or obovoid, hard and smooth, abruptly extended into a thin 
3 mm. long peduncle like base, subtended by 3 or more 
very short and rigid scales; receptacles of our specimens 
with only male and gall flowers; staminate ones immediately 
under the scales of the umbilicus, upon 1 mm. thick columnar 
pedicles, 3 mm. in length, the single stamen and rudiment- 
ary pistil subtended by 4 smooth subequal membranous 
acuminate 1 mm. long perianth segments; filament 0.75 mm. 
long, dark brown; anther short, elliptical, 0.5 mm. long; gall 
. flowers varying in length, longer ones 4 mm. with a similar 
