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Leaves ovate to elliptic, subcoriaceous, 6 to 10 cm long, 3 to 5 

 cm wide, rather pale when dry, glabrous, shining, the base 

 broadly acute to rounded, the apex rather abruptly subeaudate- 

 acuminate, the acumen up to 1 cm in length, rather slender, 

 obtuse to acute; lateral nerves numerous, spreading, parallel, 

 the secondary ones practically as prominent as the primary ones, 

 anastomosing close to the edge of the leaf and forming a very 

 slender, somewhat arched, marginal nerve, 1 to 2 mm from the 

 edge of the leaf; petioles 8 to 15 nmi long, not jointed, pubescent 

 when young, ultimately glabrous, slender, rather deeply channeled 

 on the upper surface; stipules narrowly lanceolate, 1.5 cm long, 

 glabrous or nearly so, slenderly acuminate. Receptacles globose 

 to ovoid, axillary, sessile, densely and softly cinereous-pubescent, 

 solitary or in pairs, 8 to 12 mm in diameter, the subtending 

 bracts usually 2, pubescent, 2 to 3 mm long, 4 to 8 mm wide, 

 the ostiole obscure. Staminate flowers few, scattered, the 

 perianth segments 3, spatulate, brown, 2 mm long; anthers 

 about 0.6 mm long. Fertile female flowers numerous, their 

 perianth segments similar to those of the staminate flowers, the 

 ovary subellipsoid, about 1 mm long, rounded; styles slender, 2 

 mm long. Gall flowers similar to the fertile female ones except 

 that the styles are wanting or very short. Bracteoles linear, 

 about 2 mm long. 



Luzon, Laguna Province, Los Banos, F. X, Williams s. n., and 

 For. Bur. 28If80 Salvosa, June, 1921, from the same tree. In 

 forests along Molauin River near the College of Agriculture, 

 altitude about 120 meters, growing on Bischofia javanica Blume. 



This species is dedicated to Mr. Francis Xavier Williams, ento- 

 mologist of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experiment Station, 

 who also collected botanical material from the same tree. Mr. 

 Williams has devoted a considerable amount of time to a study of 

 the Philippine fig insects with the view to their possible introduc- 

 tion into Hawaii. It is at once distinguished from Ficus benja- 

 mina Linn., which it closely resembles, by its densely pubescent 

 receptacles. 



FICUS KALINGAEN8I8 sp. nov. § Covellia. 



Species F. myriocarpae Miq. affinis differt f oliis basi truncato- 

 rotundatis, haud cordatis, receptaculis majoribus, longiter 

 pedunculatis. 



A tree about 5 m high, the branches reddish-brown, wrinkled, 

 glabrous, the very young branchlets supplied with scattered, 

 spreading, slender, rather stiff hairs up to 6 mm in length. 



