50 FLORA OF JAMACIA Ficus 



4. F. mamillifera Warh. torn. cit. 470 (1903) ; twigs (when 

 dry) furi'owed ; stipules glabrous or puberulous ; loaves parch- 

 ment-like, glabrous, broadly- or ovate-elliptical, apex rounded, 

 base rounded or subcordate ; petioles short ; figs globose or 

 depressed-globose, commonly smaller than a cherry, glabrous, 

 with bracts large, glabrous or puberulous, forming a shallow 

 cupule ; peduncle short, or Avanting ; mouth mamilliform, very 

 prominent, not surrounded by a ring. — F. trigonata Griseh. 

 (non L.) ex mss. in Herb. Edinb. (St. Mary, McNab). 



Agualta Vale, St. Mary, McNab ! Fairfield, Wullschlaegel, 1349 ! March ! 

 Robertsfield ; Sheldon, Tweedside, South St. Andrew ; near Cinchona ; 

 near Beaufort, Westmoreland, 1300 ft. ; Bluefields ; Harris ! Bath, 

 Hams (& Britton ! Fl. Jam. 5206, 5348, 539G, 8594, 9913, 10,198, 10,581. 



Large tree, 40 ft. high. Leaves 7-12 cm, 1., 4-8 cm. br., with white 

 dots on upper surface ; midrib underneath sometimes glandular at the 

 base ; nerves 6-9 on each side, more slender parallel nerves often inter- 

 vening ; petioles 8-28 mm. 1.; stipules 8-12 mm. 1. Figs 8-15 mm. 1., 

 10-12 mm. br. ; peduncles 1-3 mm. 1. ; basal bracts 3-4 mm. 1., roundish, 

 glabrous, not fimbriate ; mouth 2 mm. in diam., l'5-2 mm. high, closed 

 by blackish scales. 



Yar. hipsuta Fawc. & Hendle in Journ. Bot. I. 177 (1912); 

 stipules puberulous, hirsute on the back ; bi'acts hirsute, figs 

 smaller, 7 mm. 1., 1 1 mm. br. 



Grierfield, near Moneague, Britton, 2364 ! 



5. F. Berteroi Warh. torn. cit. 468 (1903); twigs not thick, 

 (when dry) sulcate or the younger angular ; stipules glabrous ; 

 leaves membranous, glabrous, ovate or elliptical, apex rounded 

 or obtuse, base commonly subcordate, rarely rounded ; basal 

 nerves 5-7, short, the upper scarcely different from the other 

 nerves in direction and habit ; petioles proportionally short ; figs 

 somewhat depressed-globose, smaller than a cherry, glabrous, 

 with 2-3 bracts, slightly connate, glabrous, minutely fringed on 

 the margin ; peduncle thick, small or minute ; mouth mamilli- 

 form, slightly pi'ominent, not surrounded by a ring. — F. laurifolia 

 Griseh. op. cit. 150 (in part, non Lam.). 



Bertero. 



Twigs 2-4 mm. br., (when dry) reddish-grey. Leaves 13-17 cm. 1., 

 7-10 cm. br. ; nerves on each side, besides the basal nerves, 7-9, above 

 very slightly prominent, underneath prominent, spreading, almost straight ; 

 veins only underneath slightly prominent ; reticulation very delicate, only 

 distinct underneath ; petioles 2-3 cm. 1., glabrous ; stipules 1-5-2 cm. 1., 

 lanceolate, acute, (when dry) red. Figs 8 mm. 1., to 1 cm. br., yellow 

 (when dry), sessile or subsessile ; basal bracts 2-4 mm. 1. ; mouth 2 mm. br. 

 — Description after Warburg ; we have not seen any specimen. 



6. F. oehroleuea Griseh. op. cit. 151 ; stipules minutely 

 puberulous or almost glabrous ; leaves parchment-hke, glabrous, 

 finely dotted with cystoliths on both sides, elliptical-oblong to 



