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rc\t';il the plant and I could lind no nati\('S wlio knew llic word ""riaun'' as a 

 jilant name. However, as the country for many miles about Calumpit is under 

 rather close cultivation, it is apparent that the original vegetation of the region 

 has almost entirely been I'enioved. 



MORACE.l^. 



FICUS Linn. 



Ficus anomala Merrill sp. nov. S I'ahtcoinorplic. 



A tree about 10 Jii. high witli elliptical-ovate, abruptly short acuminate 

 scabrous leaves, the receptacles globose to obovoid, yellow, scabrous, in 

 large fascicles on the trunk and larger branches. Branches brownish 

 gray, glabrous, the branchlets also glabrous except at the slightly ciliate 

 tips. Leaves submembranous, 10 to 16 cm. long, 6 to 11 cm. wide, slightly 

 shining, harsh on l)oth surfaces but not pubescent, the margins subentire 

 or very obscurely undulate-crenate, the base broad, rounded, truncate 

 or somewhat cordate, often somewhat inequilateral, the basal nerves 5 

 to 7, the outer ones short; primary lateral nerves al)()ut 7 on each side 

 of the midrib, prominent, the reticulations distinct, lax, subparallel; 

 petioles 3 to 7 cm. long. Eeceptacles very numerous, often nearly con- 

 cealing the trunk and larger branches, in usually large fascicles of short, 

 stout, congested 1 to 3 cm. long branchlets, yellow when mature, scabrous, 

 nearly 2 cm. in diameter when fresh, considerably smaller when dry, the 

 pedicels ebracteolate, 1 to 'i cm. long. Male flowers numerous near the 

 ostiole, monandrous and with a rudimentary ovary, the perianth segments 

 4, free, enclosing and exceeding the stamen, oblong, about 2 mm. long, 

 slightly ciliate above. Filament stout, about 1 mm. long; anther 

 elliptical-ovoid, 1 mm. long. Eudimentary ovary less than 1 mm. long. 

 Gall flowers numerous, the perianth lobes 4, free, linear, blunt, ciliate 

 above, much exceeding the ovary which is elliptical ovoid, 1.5 mm. long, 

 the style less than 1 jum. long, lateral. Fertile female flowers not seen. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal, Montalban (5075 Merrill), March 10, 1906. A tree 

 about 10 m. high and 30 cm. in diameter growing along small streams in thickets 

 at an altitude of about 40 m. Anomalous for the section Palaeomorphc in that 

 the receptacles are not axillary but borne in large fascicles on the trunk and 

 branches as in many species of the sections Corcllia and Ncomorplie. 



PARATROPHIS Blume. 



Paratrophis caudata Merrill sp. nov. 



A suuill tree about 8 m. tall, the young branches pul)erulent or gla- 

 brous, green, slender. Leaves broadly oblong-lanceolate or oblong-oblan- 

 ceolate, su1)niembranous, glabrous, shining, the base obtuse, the apex 

 abruptly caudate-acuminate, the acumen obtuse, above with scattered 

 minute white glands, the nuirgins irregularly crenate-serrate, 7 to 17 

 cm. long, 2 to 5.5 cm. wide; nerves 7 to 8 on both sides of the midril), 

 prominent beneath, anastomosing; petioles 1 to 2.5 mm. long. Stam- 

 inate inflorescence axillary, solitary, spicatc, amentiform, 4 to 6 cm. long, 



