285 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. I. ART. 16 
bearing a slightly thickened oblique dise like stigma; the 
inner surface of the syconium covered with yellowish brown 
bristle like 1 mm. long hairs. 
Type specimen 8986, A. D. E. Elmer, Baguio, Province 
of Benguet, Luzon, March, 1907. Very rare in low but well 
shaded ravines just below the barrio of Irisan which is about 
3 miles west of Baguio. The Igorrotes call it Dewdu. Its 
nearest relatives are F. ribes Reinw. and F. miguelii King, 
but it is distinet from either. Named after Mr. E. D. Merrill. 
Pseudopalma n. sect.—Strict unbranched or palm like 
shrubs. Leaves large, subsessile, smooth. Receptacles compar- 
atively large, axillary; flowers unisexual; the male and 
gall flowers in one set of receptacles, the fertile female in 
another; stamens 2, without pistil, subtended by broad 
perianth segments; segments subtending the fertile and gall 
flowers setaceously acuminate. 
This new section of the genus Ficus includes two en- 
demie Philippine forms and the following proposed new 
species. 
Ficus blancoi n. sp.—/. pseudopalma Blco. in Elmer’s 
Leaf. Philip. Bot. 1; 202, 1906.—Slender erect palmlike 
shrub, 2 to 3 m. high; stem about 3 cm. in diameter, 
covered with smooth grayish white bark. Leaves crowded 
at the top of the stems, subwhorled, 2 to 3 cm. apart, 
slightly ascending, radially spreading; petiole scurfy brown, 
thick, 5 to 8 mm. long; blade more or less unequal in 
size, glabrous, shining and bottle green on the upper sur- 
face, yellowish green beneath, subscarious, 8 dm. long or 
less, 2 dm. wide above the middle, obovate to oblanceo- 
late in outline, apex rounded or obtuse, base cuneate, ul- 
timately decurrent and terminated by short rounded or 
truncate lobes; margin very coarse and jagged, prominently 
undulate to sinosely serrate or toothed; midvein very stout 
and prominent beneath ; the lateral ones 7 to 9 on each 
side, slightly ascending, divaricately forked above the mid- 
dle; reticulations numerous, whitish, but much less promi- 
nent; bud scales brown, membranous, caducous, 3 cm. long, 
glabrous, acuminate, about 8 mm. wide at the base. 
EJ 
