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perpendicular or divergent, nigrescent, densely emitting roots on the inner 

 side. Leaves attaining 200 or more in number and 114 era. in length 

 (so in the submersed or nearly submersed one), 6 ram. across in the base 

 above the phyllopode. 



Ficus (Eusyce) Awkeotsang Makino sp. 



nov. 



ETtrfP 



Leaves (Fig. 1, a. 

 nat. size) petiolate, 

 oblong - lanceolate, 

 very hardly oblique 

 in forra, gradually 

 more or less at- 

 tenuated above and 

 with an obtuse tip, 

 broadlj' acute below 

 and obliquely sub- 

 cordate at the very 

 base, entire, narrow- 

 ly somewhat reflex- 

 ed and crispulate on 

 margin, chartaceo- 

 coriaceous, green 

 and glabrous but 

 subpubescent on the 

 ^ midrib and veins 

 above, covered with 

 pale fulvous minute pubescent hairs 

 on the midrib veins and veinlets 

 beneath, but tomentoso-pubescent in 

 the lower portion of the midrib, about 

 13 era. long, 5 cm. broad ; midrib 

 slender, prominent beneath ; veins 

 about S-10 on each side, slender, 

 erect-patent, hardly arcuate up- 

 wards, continued before reaching the 

 margin, the lowest two opposite and 

 larger (therefore subtriplinerved at 

 the base) ; veinlets {Fig. 1, h. mag.) 



