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closely overarching the stamens; filament very broad at the 
base, 0.3 mm. long; anther basifixed, 0.2 mm, long, ellip- 
tic; between the staminate flowers are erect shield like bracts 
exceeding the perianth and densely ciliate around the flat 
rim. 
Type specimen 7265, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province of 
Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906, A well appearing tree scattered 
in the woods in the fertile valley of the Bangon River. 
Ficus merrillii n. sp.—Slender tree, 8 m. high; stems 
15 em. thick, with soft white wood, brown bark; branches 
smooth, yellowish gray, slender, suberect. Leaves submem- 
branous, dark green above, flat, spreading from the ends 
of the branchlets, very unequal in size, 2 to 4 cm. apart, 
glabrous, the medium ones 2 dm. long by 1 dm. wide 
across the middle or just above this, obovate, the apex short 
and abruptly acuminate, the base acute or attenuate, the 
margins subentire or obscurely dentate to crenulate to un- 
dulate; lateral nerves 5 to 70n each side, ascending, brown, 
prominent beneath, interarching near the edge, cross bars 
much finer; petioles at least 1 cm. long, when young short 
brown pubescent, ultimately turning glabrous, stout; bud 
scale 15 mm. long, sharply acuminate, short rufous brown 
pubescent on the exterior. 
Receptacles upon comparatively fine numerously branched 
woody descending tubercles 3 to 6 dm. long and arranged 
along the lower one half of the stems only, 1to 3-clustered, 
subglobose or obseurely obovoid, 8 mm. in diameter, short 
dark brown pubescent; peduneles about 1 em. long, yellowish 
pubescent, usually recurved and spreading, thickened toward 
the apex and bearing 3 small bracts; umbilicus slightly 
raised, its bracts broad; gall and male flowers only; the 
staminate ones rather few, immediately beneath the umbil- 
ieal scales, monandrous; the perianth a trifle longer than 
1 mm., enclosing the stamen in the early stages but ultimately 
divided into segments; anther 0.75 mm. long, elliptie to oblong. 
upon a 0.25 mm. long filament; gall flowers 2.5 mm. long, 
glabrous, upon a 1.5 mm. long slender pedicel, obovoid, the 
median line nearly straight, base tapering, apex rounded; 
0.75 mm. thick; the oblique style sublateral, 0.25 mm. long, 
