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tinctis ; receptaculis ovoideis ad leviter obovoideis, glabris, usque 

 ad 15 mm longis, tenuiter pedunculatis. 



An erect shrub, apparently of small size, glabrous except the 

 distinctly hirsute branchlets. Branches and branchlets dark 

 reddish-brown, rugose, marked with numerous, rather densely 

 arranged, petiolar scars, the internodes very short. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate to linear-lanceolate, subcoriaceous, smooth, shining, oliva- 

 ceous, brownish or somewhat greenish when dry, the lower 

 surface paler than the upper and distinctly puncticulate, the 

 apex slenderly acuminate, base obtuse and distinctly although 

 minutely cordate, the margins recurved ; lateral nerves spreading 

 at nearly right angles from the midrib, about 20 on each side, 

 straight, distinct, anastomosing directly with the somewhat 

 arched, longitudinal, submarginal nerves; petioles pubescent, 2 

 to 3 mm long; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, up to 4 mm in 

 length. Receptacles few, axillary, ovoid to somewhat obovoid, 

 about 15 mm long, somewhat narrowed below into a short pseudo- 

 stalk above the bracts, glabrous, the peduncles up to 12 mm in 

 length, sparingly pubescent, the three bracts at the apex of the 

 peduncle broadly triangular-ovate, acute, about 1 mm long. 

 Staminate flowers numerous but only in the upper part of the 

 receptacle, their pedicels 1 to 3 mm in length, the perianth- 

 segments 3, lanceolate, acuminate, brovinn, about 1 mm long. 

 Stamens 2, rarely 3, the anthers as long as the perianth-segments. 

 Gall flowers very numerous, their perianth-segments lanceolate, 

 acuminate, brown, 2 mm long. Ovary ovoid to obovoid, 1.2 mm 

 in diameter ; style very short. Fertile female flowers not seen. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Levine 331, Feb- 

 ruary 18, 1916, with no further data. 



The alliance of this species is manifestly with Ficus pyriformis Hook. 

 & Arn., and F. stenophylla Hemsl., being much closer to the latter than 

 to the former. It may be distinguished from Hemsley's species by its 

 larger, longer-peduncled receptacles, and its very differently nerved leaves, 

 which are distinctly but minutely cordate at the base; the distinct lateral 

 nerves are much more numerous than in Ficus stenophylla Hemsl. and 

 leave the midrib at nearly right angles. 



URTICACEAE 



PI LEA Lindley 

 PILEA SWINGLEI sp. nov. 



Planta dioica, erecta, simplex vel parce ramosa, glabra, circiter 

 20 cm alta ; f oliis in paribus leviter inaequalibus, membranaceis, 

 ovatis, usque ad 4 cm longis, basi rotundatis, 3-nerviis, apice 

 acutis vel leviter acuminatis, margine grosse serratis, dentibus 



