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240. Ficus mitrophora Warburg. 

 Ficus mitrophora Warburg, in Urban, Symbolse Antillanse, III, 1903, p. 457-458. 



Near old marble quarry at east base of Caballos Mts., May 9, 

 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. igi; tree about 7 m. high, along east base 

 of Caballos Mts., May 9, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. ig2. General 

 Distribution: Isle of Pines, Cuba (Britton, Britton, & Shafer, No. 456), 

 and, according to Warburg, Haiti and San Domingo. 



Reported heretofore only from Haiti and Santo Domingo, W^arburg, 

 /. c, this species has apparently been confused with Ficus Combsii 

 Warburg, as to Cuban specimens. Ficus mitrophora differs from F. 

 Combsii in having longer and appressed-pilose stipules, and the 

 bracts at the base of the figs larger and minutely pilose, also the 

 petioles not at all or very little pruinose. 



241. Ficus populnea var. lentiginosa subvar. subcordata Warburg. 



Ficus populnea var. lentiginosa subvar. subcordata Warburg, in Urban, Symbolae 

 Antillanae, III, 1903, pp. 476-477. 



In pasture near base of Casas Mts. Appearances indicated that 

 this was one of the "strangling figs" which had formerly clasped a 

 tree, since dead and almost entirely decayed. May 12, 1910, 0. E. 

 Jennings, No. 278. 



This specimen probably represents still another and probably 

 undescribed form of the polymorphous Ficus populnea. Among the 

 many varieties and subvarieties described by Warburg, op. cit., pp. 

 471-479, the specimen from the Isle of Pines can be best referred to sub- 

 variety subcordata, as indicated, but there is considerable difference be- 

 tween this specimen and the No. 60QO, Sinienis, from Porto Rico, which 

 Warburg cites as of this subvariety. The Isle of Pines specimen 

 has much smaller leaves, the largest being only about 6.5 cm. long 

 by 3.5 cm. wide, the petioles are shorter, and the base is more decidedly 



cordate. 



242. Ficus nitida Thunberg. 



Ficus nitida Thunberg, Dissertat. Ficus, 1786, p. 10. 



Ficus pertusa Willdenow, Species Plantarum, IV, 2, 1806, p. 1144- 



Large spreading tree, probably planted, about one-half mile north 

 of Sante Fe, May 25, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 566. {See Plate XI.) 

 General Distribution: Southeastern Asia but quite commonly culti- 

 vated as a shade tree in Cuba and the Isle of Pines, in the latter place 



