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This fig tree, type specimen number 8008, is a very dis- 
tinct species, and to my knowledge no near relatives have 
been discovered. The sessile ebracteolate peculiarly shaped 
and umber colored receptacles distinguish it at once from 
the great bulk of species under this section. Only one tree 
was observed at Kias near the waterfall. 
10. F. longipedunculata (Merr.) Elm. F. chrysolepis 
longipedunculata Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 29; 11, 1905. A 
tree, 6 m. high, short and rigidly but sparsely branched 
irom near the top; young twigs thick, angular when dry, 
with a smooth yellowish bark, very blunt, freely bleeding 
with a pale viscid fluid. Leaves ascending and crowded upon 
the ends of the branches, 1.5 to 2.5 dm. long, 5 to 8 cm. wide, 
subcoriaceous, perfectly glabrous on both sides, oblanceolate or 
narrowly elliptic, caducous, edges entire, apex abruptly acumin- 
ate, base acute; nerves 3 from the base, the 7 to 10 primary 
pairs submarginally united, reticulations obscure; petioles 3 
to 5 em. long, thick and glabrous; stipules linear, gradually 
tapering from the base, subpersistent, 6 cm. long, dry, 
membranous, brown and glabrous; bud scales dark brown, 
acuminate, 15 mm, long, smooth. 
Receptacles usually in pairs and attached to the leaf 
axils, obovoid, 2.5 cm. long, 2 cm. in diameter, the base 
narrowed, apex rounded with a small sunken umbilicus, 
shining green, thick and hard, subtended by 3 acute braets 
with broad bases and finely ciliate margins; peduncle 3 to 
5 cm. long, wholly glabrous, persistent to the receptacle, 
without an annulus at its distal end; only male and gall 
flowers in our specimens and which easily become detached; 
umbilical scales thick, rigid, long and extending nearly to 
the center; staminate flowers monandrous, 3 mm. in length, 
pedicellate, scattered throughout the interior; its perianth 
barely enveloping the stamen, gamophyllous and 3-toothed; 
filament very short but rigidly cartilaginous, brownish black; 
anther caudate, dorsally recurved, almost as broad as long; 
gall flowers short or usually long pedicellate, ovoid to ellipsoid, 
subtended by a partly united membranous perianth whose 
segments become laciniate; style slender, 3 mm. in length, 
flattened, subterminally attached; interior surface numerously 
set with conspicuous laciniate dark and persistent scales. 
