SER ne 8 me nS e a 
DECEMBER 29, 1911] A FASCICLE or Srpvyan Figs 1323 
a Ficus luzonensis imberbis Elm. n. var. 
Small erect tree; stem 3 dm. thick, 10 m. high, its main 
branches arising from the middle; wood quite soft, dirty white 
darker in the center, with prominent concentric rings, odorless 
and tasteless; bark smoothish, grayish white, mottled, with latex; 
a branches freely rebranched, widely spreading; twigs suberect, 
in subwhorls, the lower ones slenderer and giving rise to new 
ones, the younger ones brown and glabrous; bud bract 1 cm. 
long, acuminate, glabrous or at most puberulous, brown. Leaves 
alternate or subopposite, elliptic to subpandurately oblong, 
ascending, flat, subchartaceous, much deeper green above, turn- 
ing brown while drying, entire, the blades 6 to 9 em. long, 2.5 
to 3.5 em. wide across the middle, obtuse or rounded at the 
apex, base truncately rounded, alternate or subpandurate, glab- 
rous on both sides; midvein reddish brown when dry, conspi- 
cuous beneath; nerves similar in color and prominence, 5 to 7 
on each side, the basal pair arising from near the base and paral- 
lel with the margin, the upper nerves divaricate with ends unit- 
ing and forming an intramarginal line; reticulations fine yet 
E evident; petiole nearly 2 cm. long, glabrous, green and caniculate 
i along the upper side, finely scurfy brown along the lower. 
Receptacles solitary or in pairs from the lowermost leaf 
| axils, globosely flattened, 1.33 em. broad, nearly as long, greenish 
yellow, when mature reddish streaked especially the upper one 
half, stipitate at the base, smooth, glabrous; peduncles slender, 
glabrous, 3 em. long, tribracteate at the distal ends or about 3 
mm. beneath the syconium proper; umbilicus nipple shaped, 
| circular, relatively large, the aperture covered over by flat pu- 
| berulent scales; the inner ones numerous, broad and irregular; 
flowers male and gall only; male flowers mostly in the upper one 
| half of the syconium, 2.5 mm. long; the slender pedicel 1.25 mm. 
; long, yellowish brown; perianth attached below the stamens, 
free, 1.5 mm. long, deep reddish brown, 3 or 4, acutely pointed, 
folded upon the upper side; anthers di or triandrous, upon short 
stalks, nearly 1 mm. long, curved, oblong, notched at the blunt 
ends, dorsifixed; gall flowers upon shorter pedicels, with longer 
and more sharply pointed perianth segments; gall ovary straw 
brown, shining, obliquely ellipsoid, 1 mm. long, terminated by 
a mere vestige of a style. 
Dg chaton 
