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shade, and are usually subtended by long brown subper- 
sistent bracts; its hanging subaphyllous fruiting branches are 
sometimes 3 m. long and often so dense as to conceal the trunk; 
the figs are clustered in globular masses, cuneate in outline, 
angular in shape and when mature are yellowish red. 
Specimen number 8020 was collected at Sablan. 
22. F. nota (Bico.) Merr; Govt. Lab. Publ. 17; 10, 
1904. This is F. aspera mota Blco. Fl. Filip. ed. 1; 677, 
1837. Quite a common species and probably has a wide 
distribution throughout the Archipelago. It is usually a 
tree 8 m. high and inhabits the forests of the hills, but 
often depauperate forms are found in the low lands. Young 
receptacles are finely pubescent, becoming smooth with ma- 
turity and if exposed to the sun turn to a dark purple. 
The size of the leaf varies even on the same twigs; some 
of them are nearly smooth, others are pubescent on both 
sides, with margins either entire or undulately dentate. 
Numbers 8031 and 8021 were collected at Sablan; 8032 is 
from Twin Peaks. It is successfully grown in some of the 
Manila gardens. 
23. F. barnesii Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 17; 12, 1904. 
This Ficus was first collected along the Lamao river, Province 
of Bataan, Luzon, by P. T. Barnes after whom it was named. 
A tree 7 to 10 m. tall and is usually found on river banks 
of the hill forests. It can easily be recognized aside from 
its 1 m. long fruiting branches by the rusty brown young 
twigs which in their typical form are densely covered with 
reddish brown hairs. My numbers 8033 from Twin Peaks and 
8034 from Sablan are typical; number 8022 from Twin Peaks has 
not the rusty brown hirsute pubescence, and approaches some 
forms of F. nota (Bleo.) Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 17; 10, 
1904. 
24. F. repandifolius n. sp. A small tree, 10 m. high, 
with rather few spreading branches; bark smooth, grayish 
white and mottled; young twigs glabrous, brownish, soon 
turning gray. Leaves dark green, turning to a somber color 
while drying, persistent only toward the ends of the twigs, 
the fallen ones leaving large circular scars, glabrous, sub- 
chartaceous, 18 to 25 em. long including the 2 cm. long 
