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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. vilr, Art. 121 



MORACEAE 



Ficus maquilingensis Elm. n. sp. 



A rather small though erect tree. Stem 2 to 3 

 dm. thick, with relatively short branches; twigs quite 

 slender, finely striate and when young yellowish brown 

 pubescent. Leaves not numerous, coriaceous, alternate, 

 scattered, subpandurate, the basal ones usually much re- 

 duced, entire or obscurely undulate toward the apex, 

 glabrate, paler beneath but with minute white dots, abruptly 

 short acute, faintly and auriculately rounded at the 

 slightly inequilateral base, the larger lamina 2 dm. long 

 by nearly one half as wide above the middle, upon stout 

 hairy petioles reaching 4 cm. in length; midrib ridged 

 beneath, usually strigose especially toward the base, with 

 about 7 ascendingly curved nerves on each side and 

 whose ends are archingly united, the 2 basal pairs not 

 so prominent, cross bars quite evident, the larger nerves 

 sprinkled with hairs; bud bracts and interaxillary stipules 2 

 cm. long, tapering from the base to the acuminate point, 

 olivaceous pubescent along the median dorsal side, de- 

 ciduous. Receptacles upon cauline tubercles, 2.5 cm. 

 thick, obovoidly globose, smooth, purplish tinged on the 

 exposed side, upon slender and glabrous peduncles equal- 

 ling the fruits, usually subtended by a solitary blunt 

 bract; umbilicus very slightly raised by the rugose 

 thick bracts; tubercles up to 15 cm. long, quite rigid, 

 clustered and branched, conspicuously roughened, ultimate- 

 ly glabrous; the inner umbilical scales ovately oblong 

 near the orifice, lanceolate further down, membranous 

 except the thick mid vein, densely crowded; staminate 

 flowers young, few, scattered among the inner umbilical 

 scales, clavate, monandrous, with a 2 or 3 lobulate perianth, 

 subtended by an oblanceolate bract twice their length; 

 other flowers pistillate, numerous, some with short ped- 

 icels and long styles, others with long pedicels and 

 short styles, glabrous, dark reddish brown when dry; 

 stipes much thicker than the styles, at the base usually 

 curved and somewhat adnate to the syconium, thickened 

 toward the top; ovary portion very irregular in shape, 

 angularly compressed; style sublateral, those of the older 

 ones twisted, those of the younger ones straight; stigmas 

 subclavate, all more or less united. 



Type specimen number 17854. A. D. E, Elmer, Los 

 Bafios(Mt. Maquiling), Province of Laguna. Luzon. June- 

 July, 1917. Along the main trail two thirds way up the 

 mountain near the cliff at the spring. 



