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immediately beloAV umbilical scales, the perianth of three distinct subequal 

 segments, 2 to 3.5 mm. long, exceeding and enveloping the single stamen; 

 filament 1.5 mm. long: anther 1 mm. long. Gall flowers about 3 mm. 

 long, pedicellate the perianth of four unequal, free segments, 2 to 2.5 

 mm. long, enveloping and' exceeding the ovary, whicli is 1.5 mm. long, the 

 style sublateral less than 1 mm. long. 



Type specimen No. 6643 (A. D. E. Elmer), Bagnio, Province of Benguet, 

 Luzon, March, 1904. 



""• A species closely related to Ficus semicordata Miq., from Celebes, differ- 

 ing from that species in its short peduncled receptacles, which are differently 

 disposed, smaller, more numerously nerved leaves, few male flowers, and 

 other characters. 

 Ficus elmeri, var. subintegra Merrill, sp. nov. 



A species similar to the type in general appearance, shape, and size of 

 the leaves, etc., differing in its harsh, but not pubescent, nearly entire 

 leaves, and reddish, glabrous branches. 



Type specimen No. 6317 (A. D. E. Elmer), Baguio, Province of Benguet, 

 Luzon, May, 1904. A shrub about 5 m. high. 

 Ficus benguetense sp. nov. ^ Sycidiiim. 



A shrub or small tree 3 to 10 m. high, with ovate, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 glabrous, submembrauous leaves, and axillary, peduncled subglobose or 

 somewhat pyriform, glabrous, axillary receptacles, 1 to L5 cm. long. 

 Branches dark brown, glabrous, the branchlets strigose pubescent. Leaves 

 submembranous, 8 to 14 cm. long, 4 cm. wide, tapering above to the 

 blunt acumen, and below to the inequilateral base, one side of the lamina 

 acute at the base the other more or less rounded, both surface!* smooth, the 

 lower densely punctate; nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, curved, 

 ascending, prominent, somewhat anastomosing, the reticulations rather 

 dense, valid; petioles 1 to 2 cm. long, slightly strigose pubescent, the stipules 

 ovate, lanceolate, acuminate, 6 mm. long, slightly pubescent. Receptacles 

 solitary or two or three from the same axil, glabrous, when fresh with 

 few scattered whitish tubercles, yellowish when mature, the peduncles 

 3 to 8 mm. long, glabrous or slightly pubescent, the three ovate, acute bracts 

 at the base of the receptacle, glabrous, about 3 mm. long. Male flowers 

 only near the ostiole, 3 mm. long, short pedicelled; the perianth of three 

 distinct, brown segments about 1.5 mm. long, about equaling the thickened 

 filament. Stamen 1, the anther nearly 1 mm. long, just exserted from the 

 perianth. Gall flowers pedicelled, the ovary subglobose, about 1.5 mm. in 

 diameter, the style sublateral. very short, the segments of the perianth 

 short, not, or but slightly, inclosing the ovary. 



Specimens examined all from the Province of Benguet, Luzon: Baguio, 

 Nos. 5847, 5789, 6038 (Elmer), March, 1904; Nos. 926 and 944 (Forestry 

 Bureau), collected by Barnes, May-June, 1904; No. 1059 (iMerrill), Jan- 

 uary, 1903; Sablan, No. 6111 (Elmer), April, 1904. 



Apparently very common in Benguet, growing in ravines and along 

 streams. Among the numerous specimens of Ficus at present in the 

 herbarium from various portions of the Archipelago there are none from 

 the other localities closely related to this species. 



