Avevsr 25, 1914] A FascrcLE or Norta Acusan Fics 2401 
fruits give it a beautiful appearance and should be brought 
under cultivation for ornamental purposes. 
Ficus hispidulosa Elm. n. sp. 
Widely and laxly branchd shrubs; stems one or more 
from the base, 5 to 8 cm thick, branched from below the 
middle; wood soft, odorless and without taste, whitish es- 
pecially the outer portion, covered by’ a greenish brown 
smooth bark; branchlets slender and lax, one half drooping, 
terete, the young apical portion sparsely provided with crisp 
hairs. Leaves recurved and descending, thinly chartaceous or 
submembranous, a shade deeper green on the upper glabrous 
surface, alternatingly scattered, the larger blades terminal, 
curing dull green on- both sides, entire, apex abruptly cau- 
date, base inequilateral and obtusely rounded, oblong, the 
larger ones 2 dm long by 7 cm wide at the middle, the 
lower side bristly hirsute along the nerves and reticulations; 
midrib yellowish and prominent beneath, provided with 
brown hispid hairs; lateral nerves 7 to 11 on each side, 
Similar to the midrib though less prominent, ascendingly 
curved, the cross bars and reticulations relatively prominent 
beneath; petiole stout, also hairy, ultimately glabrous, yel- 
lowish brown, 3 mm long; bud and stipular bracts a trifle 
longer than the petiole, acuminate, sparsely ciliate along the 
margins. 
Receptacles 6 to 8 mm in diameter when fresh, green, 
becoming yellow when mature, erect, solitary or in small 
groups from the leaf axils or along the branchlets in the 
old leaf axils, hard, subsessile or upon 2 to 3 mm long 
glabrate peduncles; umbilicus slightly raised, small, rugose, 
barely sunken in the middle; the outer scales broad, hori- 
zontally placed, coriaceous, the inner set elongated and thin- 
ner; flowers apparently all fertile, light brown, 2 mm long, 
subsessile or upon hyaline contiguous bases; seed ovary sub- 
reniform, 1 to 1.25 mm long, 0.75 mm wide, more or less 
enveloped by a thin transparent sheath or perianth whose 
edges are usually provided with very fine white colored wool- 
ly hairs; style subterminal, ascendingly curved, averaging 0.5 
mm long, ending in a elavate dark brown stigmatic portion. 
