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A very remarkable species because of the presence of both sessile and pedun- 

 culate receptacles upon the same tree. 



8. Ficus panamensis Standi. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 20: 15. 1917. 

 Tabasco. Central America and Colombiu ; type from Panama. 



Stipules 2 cm. long ; leaves oblong or obovate-oblong, 9 to 16 cm. long, glabrous ; 

 receptacles 1 cm. in diameter. "Araatillo" (Tabasco). 



9. Ficus kellermannii Standi. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 20: 18. 1917. 

 Oaxaca. Guatemala ; type from El Rancho. 



Stipules 1 to 2 cm. long; leaves oval-oblong, obovate-oval, or oval, 5 to 14 cm. 

 long, short-hirtellous beneath, emarginate or subcordate at base; receptacles 

 8 to 10 mm. in diameter. " Higo loxe chico " (Oaxaca). 



10. Ficus cotinifolla H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2: 49. 1817. 



Ficus nryxaefolia Kunth & Bouch6. Ind. Seni. Hort. Berol. 18. 1846. 



Urosiigma longipes Liebm. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Skrivt. V. 2: 321. 1851. 



Vrostigina glaucum Liebm. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Skrivt. V. 2: 322. 1851. 



Ficus suhrotundi folia Greeum. Proc. Amer. Acad. 41 : 237. 1905. 



Chihuahua to Baja California, Oaxaca, and Yucatan; type collected en the 

 Acapulco road near La Venta del Egido. Costa Rica. 



Large or small tree, sometimes 15 meters high, with a trunk a meter in 

 diameter, the branches few, large, spreading; stipules 5 to 13 mm. long; leaves 

 oblong to orbicular. 5 to 13 cm. long, very variable; receptacles 6 to 11 mm. 

 in diameter, whitish, often spotted. " Copo," " coobo," " alamo " (Yucatdn) ; 

 " higuer6n " (Tamaulipas, San Luis PotosI) ; " araate prieto " (Morelos). 



The milky juice mixed with the powdered bark is applied to wounds and 

 bruises. This may be the " tlilamatl " ("black-fig") described by Hernandez. 



11. Ficus petiolaris H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2:49. 1817. 

 Ficus jalucana S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 26: 150. 1891. 



Sonora to Guerrero and Morelos ; reported from Oaxaca ; type collected near 

 Mazatian, Guerrero. 



Large or small tree with white trunk; loaves 6.5 to 15 cm. wide; receptacles 

 1 to 1.5 cm. in diameter. The following names are reported for this species, 

 although it is probable that most of them are applied to others also: " Tepe- 

 amatl " or "tepeamate" (Guerrero; the former the Nahuatl term, meaning 

 " hill-fig ") ; " tescalama," " tescalamate," or " texcalamate " (Morelos, Durango, 

 Guanajuato, etc.; in Nahuatl. fe.rra/aH!fl^i=" lava-fig," this name, according to 

 Robelo, given because the tree sometimes grows on lava rock) ; " palo chila- 

 raate" (Oaxaca, Relco ; from the Nahuatl, chil-amatl) ; " higuera " (Durango, 

 Sinaloa) ; "palo Maria," " higuerSn " (Sinaloa, Mexico); " higuerote," " tex- 

 calama lechosa " (Sinaloa); " amate " (Oaxaca); " amacostic " (Morelos); 

 " amate amarillo " (Morelos, Guerrero). 



This species has frequently been reported* from Mexico as /■'. mjiiiiihacifolia 

 L. That is a South American species, which is somewhat similar but neverthe- 

 less quite distinct. 



Tliis species is discussed by Hernandez' in a chapter entitled." De Amacoztic, 

 seu Papyro lutea, seu Tepomatl, Sycomnro Saxatili Mcxicana." His remarks are 

 as follows: "The Amacoztic, which some call Tcxcahtmatl, or rock-paper, and 

 others Tepeaniatl, is a large tree which has the leaves broad, almost round, 

 thick and purplish like ivy. and nearly heart-shaped; the bark is on one side 

 yellow inclining to green, and on the other red ; it has the fruits on the same 

 trunks, which are smooth like that of a fig tree; the fruit resembles small 



* As by Sess^ & Mocino, PI. Nov. Hisp. 180. 1887. 

 'Thesaurus 81. 1651. 



