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brown and shining when dry, smooth, oblong-elliptic, 14 to 23 

 cm long, 7 to 11 cm wide, entire, 3-plinerved, base rounded, apex 

 abruptly and usually slenderly acutely acuminate, the acumen 

 1.5 to 2 cm long; primary lateral nerves prominent, spreading, 

 straight, 10 to 12 on each side of the midrib, anastomosing near 

 the margin, the reticulations rather lax, anastomosing between 

 each two lateral nerves into less distinct secondary nervs ; petioles 

 2.5 cm long; bud-scales lanceolate, acuminate, 1.5 cm long, 

 appressed-hirsute. Receptacles axillary, solitary, sessile, ellip- 

 soid, brown when dry, smooth or somewhat warted, 3 to 3.5 

 cm long, 2 to 2.5 cm in diameter, the apex rounded, the umbil- 

 icus distinct. Basal bracts 3, reniform, brown, coriaceous, 3 

 mm long, 5 mm wide. Gall flowers numerous, their perianth 

 segments usually 3, about 2 mm long. Male flowers few and 

 chiefly near the orifice, anthers 1 mm long. 



Luzon, Province of Camarines, Niog, Phil. PL 15^7 Ramos, December 

 17, 1913, locally known as balete. 



A species well characterized by its large, ellipsoid, sessile, solitary, axil- 

 lary receptacles. Its alliance is apparently with Ficus forstenii Miq. (F. 

 vidaliana Warb.) from which it differs in its much larger receptacles and 

 larger leaves. 



FICUS PRODUCTA sp. nov. § Sycidium. 



Frutex erectus, circiter 2 m altus, foliis utrinque ramulisque 

 scaberulis; foliis alternis, subcoriaceis, usque ad 18 cm longis, 

 oblongis ad oblongo-obovatis vel ovato-ellipticis, aequilateralibus, 

 basi 3-nerviis, acutis vel obtusis, apice longe tenuiter caudato- 

 acuminatis, margine irregulariter grosse dentatis vel dentato- 

 serratis, baud lobatis, in siccitate subviridis, nervis utrinque 

 circiter 8, subtus cum reticulis valde prominentibus ; receptaculis 

 axillaribus, solitariis vel in paribus dispositis, subglobosis vel 

 leviter obovoideis, scabridis, pedunculatis, 8 ad 10 mm diametro. 



An erect shrub about 2 m high, scabrid. Branches terete, 

 slender, pale-brownish when dry, glabrous, the branchlets 

 scabrid. Leaves alternate, rather prominently scabrid in both 

 surfaces, otherwise glabrous, oblong to oblong-obovate or even 

 ovate-elliptic, 12 to 18 cm long, 4 to 7 cm wide, equilateral, the 

 base shortly 3-nerved, acute or obtuse, the apex rather abruptly 

 long and slenderly caudate-acuminate, the acumen 2 to 3.5 cm 

 long, narrow at the base, entire, acute or apiculate, the margins 

 rather coarsely dentate or dentate-serrate, not lobed, the teeth 

 irregular, mostly 5 mm apart or more, both surfaces when dry 

 somewhat greenish, shining, scabrid, the lower very slightly paler 

 than the upper; lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, 

 very prominent on the lower surface, anastomosing, the reticula- 



