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This fig is intermediate between F. annulata Blm.  Bijd, 
448, 1825-6, and F. chrysolepis Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lud. Bat. 
3; 215, 1836-9, but is very distinct from either. From the 
former it differs in being a small tree; in having its leaf 
base always acute; longer petioles; smaller differently shaped 
receptacles without prominent umbos; and in its much longer 
peduncles without the curious thickened annulus. From the 
latter it differs in its very long perfectly glabrous stipules, 
much smaller receptacles and with two to three times longer 
peduncles; and in its thick blunt smooth twigs which become 
peculiarly angled when dry. Number 8009 was discovered 
along the river at Sablan where only one tree was observed. 
11. F. magnifica n. sp. A large tree, 8 m. high; branches 
widely spreading but not drooping, with bark on the twigs 
smooth and yellowish gray. Leaves ovate or oblanceolate, 
equilateral, 5 to 8 em. long, 2.5 to 4 em. wide, subcoriaceous, 
glabrous on both sides, base obtuse, apex acute, obscurely 3- 
nerved at the base, with about 9 primary lateral pairs, united 
at the ends, secondary transverse nerves barely visible upon its 
under suríace; petiole 5 mm. in length, somewhat enlarged, 
seurfy brown; bud seales 8 mm. long, smooth, setaceously 
acuminate. 
Receptacles of the same tree at different stages of ma- 
turity, green, yellowish red, ultimately turning to a dark 
reddish brown or nearly black, erect or ascending before 
maturity, finally pendulous, always shining smooth, soft and 
somewhat juicy when mature, early falling, globose or nearly 
so, usually solitary in the leaf axils, 7 to 10 mm. in dia- 
meter, apex slightly raised and with a small annulus; its 
base abruptly contracted into a 3 to 5 mm. long peduncle 
like stalk subtended by 3 small but broad bracts; flowers 
all fertile female in our specimen; perianth usually oi 4- 
cleft segments, lanceolate in outline, brown, membranous, 
apices slightly truncate; achene flattened and curved, 1.5 
mm. long, 0.75 mm. wide, sessile, surrounded by a hyaline 
membrane, light yellow and glabrous, prominently crested 
especially on the edge of the apex; style barely 1 mm. 
long, subterminal, equalling the segments, bearing a dark 
brown clavate stigma; inner surface of the syconium sparsely 
hispid. 
