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Bim. Bijd. 474, 1825-6: or with F. heterophylla Linn. Fil. 
Supp. 442. According to the Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale. 1; 80, 
1887, it cannot be closer to any other species. Number 
8030 is a young specimen collected on open grassy hills 
at Baguio; 8015 was found on a dry ridge near Twin 
Peaks, bearing soft yellowish rather palatable figs. 
17. F. rudis arborea n. var. A tree, widely spreading, 
8 m. high. Base of leaves rounded, with obscurely dentate 
edges; upper surface darker green and finely scurfy, beneath 
minutely puberulent; leaf petioles as well as the young 
branches glabrous. Receptacles chiefly below the foliage in 
the axils of the leaf scars, not at all densely hispid. 
Type number 8016 of this variety was discovered in a 
nearly dry stream bed of the hill country a few miles 
west of Sablan toward Naguilian. F. rudis Mig. Ann. Mus. 
Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3; 222, 1836-9 has previously been known 
only from the Celebes and Kei, though a specimen recently 
collected on Ticao Island, seems to be nearly typical. 
18. F. benguetense Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 29; 10, 1905. 
A shrub or a small tree, 4 to 7 m. high; young terminal 
branches with a short brown pubescence. Leaves lanceolate, 
12 to 20 cm. long, 3.5 to 5 cm. wide, entire, acuminate, 
with a rounded obtuse apex, base merely acute and often 
somewhat inequilateral, the broader side rounded or ob- 
scurely lobed, dark green, glabrous on both sides, beneath 
pulverulent, submembranous; veins ascendingly curved, prom- 
inent, blackish brown, 6 to 8 pairs excluding the 3 to 5 
basal ones; petioles 1 to 2 cm. long, sparsely Sstrigose 
pubescent; stipules acuminate, 5 mm. long, faintly pubescent. . 
Receptacles often densely clustered in the leaf axils, 
shining dark green, only sparsely dotted with whitish tub- 
ercles, obovoid in outline though somewhat irregular and 
not perfectly terete, both ends truncate, 1.5 em. long, nearly 
that in diameter above the middle, freely bleeding with a 
molasses like juice; peduncles 4 to 7 mm. in length, 
slightly pubescent; base of the receptacle subtended by 3 
or 4 braets which are broadly obtuse, 3 mm. long, nearly 
glabrous, subeoriaceous, soon becoming liberated from the 
comparatively thin syconium though persistent; gall and male 
