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DECEMBER 29, 1911] A FASCICLE or SiBuYaN Fies 1315 
especially in limestone formation throughout the Visayan region 
northward to the Batanes islands. 
The Formosan species F. swinhoi King is quite similar in 
general aspects and F. mearnsii Merr. clearly belongs in this 
same alliance. 
Ficus magallanensis Elm. n. sp. 
A stocky tree; trunk nearly 6 dm. through, ascending, 10 m. 
high, branched from below the middle; wood soft, whitish, 
without odor or taste, concentric rings quite conspicuous; bark 
smoothish, mottled, with latex; main branches widely spreading, 
numerously rebranched, forming a flattish crown; twigs sub- 
erect, yellowish gray, ringed. Leaves alternate, ascending or 
horizontal, shallowly folded upon the upper dull deep green 
surface, paler beneath, oblong, the larger blades 10 to 15 
em. long, 5 em. wide across the middle, acute to acuminate, 
base obtuse or rounded, entire, blackish brown when dry 
and diciduous, glabrous; midvein conspicuous beneath; lateral 
nerves 9 to 11 pairs, whitish, oblique, tips obscurely united; reti- 
culations scarcely evident; petiole also glabrous, 2.5 em. long, 
fluted on the upper flattish side, leaving conspicuous scars; 
bud bract brown, well acuminate, 1.5 em. long. 
Receptacles in axillary pairs, obscurely triangular obovoid, 
hard, shining, smooth, 2.5 em. long, pale green and beautifully 
spotted with pink, 1.75 em. thick above the middle; peduncle 
stout, somewhat thickened at both ends, subterete, green, aver- 
aging 2.25 em. long, terminated by 3 smooth rather broad bracts; 
the smooth umbilieus greenish white, the irregular inner ones 
rigid and deep reddish brown; flowers apparently male and 
gall or sterile female; male few, monandrous in the region of 
the umbilicus or more or less scattered, 3.5 mm. long; pedicel 
2mm. long, dark brown, at the base subtended by 3 to 5 slenderly 
acuminate involucral bracts averaging 2 mm. in length; the 
gamophyllous perianth 1.5 mm. long, enclosing the single 
anther, brown; anther curved, upon a nearly black connective, 
0.75 mm. long; sterile pistillate ones upon shorter pedicels and 
with slenderly pointed gamophyllous perianths; ovary com- 
pressed, bearing a nearly terminal very slender 2 to 3 mm. long 
style. 
