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branching of an apple tree; the figs are rather scattering in the 
axils of leaves and their scars, slenderly peduncled, densely 
pubescent, when mature soft in texture and dull purplish 
red. It is a very distinct species, though nearest related 
to F. luzonensis Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 6; 8, 1904. 
26. F. ruficaulis Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 17; 13,1904. 
The type of this was colleeted by E. D. Merrill at Antipolo, 
Province of Rizal, Luzon. It has since then been collected 
in various parts of our Archipelago, from Mindanao up to 
central northern Luzon. In woods of the hill country and 
especially along streams it grows to be quite a large tree. 
Can be easily recognized by its large pubescent fruits and 
by the broad membranous ovate leaves with slightly cordate 
bases. Number 8035 is an immature specimen; 8044 is nearly 
mature and its shape is subglobose or somewhat obovoid. 
Both of these numbers are from Sablan. 
27. F. propinqua. Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 20; 8, 1905. 
Scandent, 5 m. high or long, with a tough woody 2 cm. 
thick stem; bark dark brown, rather rough; branchlets dens- 
ely covered with long soft yellowish brown hairs. Leaves 
quite rigid, ovate to oblong, slightly cordate at base, acute 
at apex, 9 to 14 em. in width, margins entire, usually with 
unsymmetrical sides, shining green and glabrous above with 
sunken veins, beneath pulverulent and fulvous villous along 
its nerves; all the veins on tle under side very prominent, 
the 3 to 5 ascending primary pairs excluding the 3 to 5 
basal ones prominently connected below the slightly recurved 
margins, transverse ones chiefly parallel; petioles densely 
fulvous villous, 1.5 to 2.5 em. long; stipule lanceolate or 
long acuminate, 3 cm. long, :ubpersistent, glabrous except 
along the dorsal midvein, dry, brown, membranous; bud 
scales brown, villous on its dorsal vein. 
Receptacles 1 to 3-clustered in the axils of leaves, sub- 
tended by numerous brown persistent papery bracts of unequal 
lengths and intermixed, hairy, subglobose to obovoid, its 
base 1 em. in diameter, almost glabrous, of a rich golden 
yellow when mature, extending into a 2 to 3 mm. long 
pedicel which at its insertion upon the subsessile peduncle 
is marked by a cartilaginous ring; apex deeply and widely 
depressed, with umbilical scales barely protruding at bottom; 
