546 PRODROMUS MONOGRAPHIÆ FICUUM,; 
petiolatis obovato-ellipticis vel elliptico-oblongis apice ro- 
tundatis vel obtuso-apiculatis, basi obtusis vel leviter 
emarginatis, integerrimis vel obsoletissime repandis, coria- 
ceis, nascentibus supra pilis fugacibus teneris inspersis, 
basi trinerviis et utrinque costulis 5-7 subpatulis subtus 
cum venulis crebrioribus prominentibus, receptaculis axil- 
laribus geminis? sessilibus involucro vulgo 4-lobo basi 
hirto inæquali cinctis, glabriusculis, ore bractea lata oc- 
cluso. 
Has. Columbiam, Hartweg. n, 1384 ! in herb. Hook. ; Goyaz 
Brasiliæ, Gardner, n. 3425 ! 
Rami levigati. Petioli 1-23 cent. longi. Folia in sicco supra 
profunde subtus pallide fuscescentia, 7-10 cent. longa, 
3-54 supra medium lata, supra nervo medio canaliculato 
costulisque notata. Stipule 14 cent. longe ovato-lanceo- 
late, apice tereti-convolutæ, versus basin et dorso hirtæ. 
Receptacula adhuc juniora, piso paullo minora, pilis 
teneris inspersa, ore bractea lata occluso, pariete tenul 
fragili. 
In sp. Gardneriano, pili setulosi sparsi in petiolis foliisque 
junioribus subtus in nervo, frequentiores, stipule pilis 
dense obtectæ, folia majora, usque ad 16 cent. longa, 8 lata 
utrinque 8-costata. Receptacula glabra obovato-globosa, 
1 cent. æquantia, basi involucro bilobo instructa, apice - 
bracteis 2 majusculis occlusa. Arbor parva, ex Gardn. 
56, U, gardeniefolium. (Ficus gardeniefolia, Hort. berol. 
1846. F. pandurefolia, Hort. Paris, 1846. -F. puberula, 
Kth. et Bouch, l. c. p.19.) Ramulis rectis, subtrigono- - 
teretiusculis, juvenilibus petiolis gemmisque terminalibus 
puberulis; his conico-subulatis, rectis; foliis elliptico- ob- 
longis acutis vel obtusis, basi rotundatis, trinerviis, inte- 
 gerrimis, nervis primariis tenuibus, remotis costaque supra 
. prominulis, subtus prominentibus, rigidulo-membranacels, 
.pellucido-punctulatis, supra satiate viridibus nitidulis, 
utrinque presertim subtus in costa et nervis puberulis, 
