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nor are the blades ever larger than 13 em. long and 5 em. 
wide. It also resembles some Philippine species of Ficus 
belonging to the section of Eusyce. 
27. F. lucbanensis n. sp.—Erect shrub or tree like, widely 
spreading, 3 to 5 m. high; wood soft, whitish, the older por- 
tions covered with smooth brown bark, that of the branchlets 
yellowish gray and glabrous. Leaves scattered along the twigs, 
alternate, coriaceous, extremely variable in size, also glabrous, 
flat, horizontally spreading, oblong, the smaller ones frequently 
obovate, the larger ones 2 dm. long, 9 cm. wide across the 
middle, acute apex rather bluntly pointed, base obtuse or sub- 
cuneate, lustrous green above and in the dry state characteris- 
tically blotehed, beneath paler green and umber brown when 
dry, margins entire; petiole glabrous, varying from 2 to 5 cm. 
long, quite thick and succulent, persistent and with cons- 
picuous rings just above the place of attachment; nerves 
beneath shining castaneus brown, the lateral ones 5 to 9 on 
each side, ascendingly curved above the middle and anas- 
tomosing toward their ends, conspicuous beneath but also 
visible from the upper surface, reticulations faint; bud scales 
glabrous, convolute, at least 1.5 em. long, sharply acuminate. 
Receptacles chiefly in the leaf axils, 1 to 3-clustered, 
smooth, becoming soft and whitish when mature, the younger 
green ones with pale white spots, variable in size and shape, 
subglobose to obovoid, or flattened at both ends, averaging 
1 em. in diameter; peduncles glabrous, 3 to 5 mm. long, flattened, 
terminated at the distal end by 3 minute bracts; umbilicus 
not raised, frequently sunken; flowers male and gall only; 
the staminate flowers few, concealed amongst the inner um- 
bilical bracts, 2 mm. long, monandrous; its perianth soft, 
glabrous, brown, gamophyllous, 1.5 mm. long, cup shaped, 
somewhat constrieted toward the base, 1 mm. across; filament 
1 mm. long, rather soft and flattened, glabrous; anther ul- 
timately exerted, 0.75 mm. long, fully as wide, the ends 
truncate or obscurely biauriculate at the base; gall flowers 
dark brown, 2 mm. long, upon 1 mm. long pedicels; the 
mature insect ovary obovoid, 1 mm. across, exceeding the 
bracts, base short stipitate; involucral bracts 3, glabrous, 
oblong, subelliptic to obovate; style very short, lateral; those 
