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DecempBer 29, 1911] A FasciCLE oF SrBUYAN Fries 1319 
Cuming's number 1944 is a narrow leafed form with prom- 
inent nerves nearly at right angles and usually with a pointed 
lobe at the base. There are in the Philippines at least two 
distinet species, the heterophyllous shrub bearing both the en- 
tire leaves and those with a pronounced lobe at the base which 
often becomes querciform; the other shrub bears only entire 
leaves. The figs in both cases are alike even though they vary 
considerably. It is certain that F. cumingii Mig. is identical 
with the older F. ulmifolia Lam. 
Ficus sibuyanensis Elm. n. sp. 
Erect shrub-like tree; stem 1.5 dm. thick, 7.5 m. high, with 
its main branches arising from below the middle; branches 
widely spreading and numerously rebranched; twigs ascending, 
terete, glabrous but harsh, dull brown; wood moderately hard, 
whitish, a trifle sweet, odorless, bark smoothish, conspicuously 
mottled. Leaves primarily ascending, with recurved tips, paler 
green beneath, midvein whitish, the two surfaces drying en- 
tirely different in color, less scabrid on the upper blackish and 
sublucid surface, copious, alternatingly scattered, glabrous on 
both sides, inequilateral, rhombic elliptic, apex abruptly obtuse 
to acute or acuminate, entire, obtuse at the slightly inequilateral 
base, 10 em. long, fully one half as wide across the middle or a 
trifle above this; lateral nerves averaging 5 on each side of the 
prominent midvein, glabrous, ascendingly curved and inter- 
arching, the basal pair strongly ascending, all scabrous, dull green- 
ish gray as is-also the entire nether leaf surface; petioles sca- 
brous, at least 5 mm. long, dull brown; bud bracts less than 5 
mm. long, setaceously acuminate, subscabrous or with smooth 
brown sides. 
Receptacles grouped in small cluster along the branchlets 
in the leaf sears or in pairs from the axils of the lowermost leaves, 
globose, 7.5 mm. in diameter, subseabrous and green or lemon 
yellow, smoother when ripe; peduncle slender, 3 to 5 mm. long, 
occasionally bracteolate; umbilicus rounded, barely raised above 
the syconium, the aperture imbricately crowded with reddish 
tips of the inner scales; the inner ones hyaline, with brown 
margins and very finely ciliate, irregular in shape which depends 
upon their respective place along the aperture and consequently 
