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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Ficus Whitei 



(Urostigma.) Glaln'oiis. Braiiclilets stout, deep reddish- 

 l)i()\vn, roughly "wrinkled. Petioles about 4 em. long, stout, 

 fleshy and roughly wrinkled in drying, reddish or orange, like 

 the midrib, channeled on the upper surface. Blades nearly 

 2 dm. long, and 6 cm. broad, oblong with rounded base and 

 slightly mucronate obtusish summit, light yellowish-green, 

 the upper surface minutely papillose. Midrib ijrominent on 

 both surfaces, finely wrinltled, the secondaries 25 or more 

 on each side, with intermediate finer ones, slender, diverg- 

 ing almost at a right angle and abruptly upcurved near 

 the margin, the finer venation strongly anastomosing. Fruit 

 globose, 2 cm. in diameter, shortly and stoutly peduncled, the 

 peduncle bearing a circle of about 4 sul)connate reflexed bracts, 

 forming an involucre about 8 mm. broad, above which the fruit 

 is shortly stipitate. Surface of fruit sparsely and rather ob- 

 scurely muricate. Terminal opening small, surrounded by 5 

 small incurved yellowish bracts. 



Pistillate Floivers. — Perigone 5- or 6-parted, the segments 

 linear, somewhat wider in the middle portion, exceeding the 

 pistil, Akene brown, shining, obovoid with rounded summit, the 

 style lateral, from above the middle, about the length of the 

 akene, the stigma acute. 



Staminate Flower. — Perigone-segments 3, one somewhat 

 broader than the others. Anther broadly oval, not quite reach- 

 ing the summit of the perigone. 



On river playas near Covendo, 2,000 feet, 0. E. White, Au- 

 gust 7, 1891 {no. 1054). "A large tree." 



Ficus bopiana 



(Urostigma.) Glabrous. Branchlets reddish-brown, much- 

 wrinkled and roughened. Stipules nearly 1 cm. long, ovate- 

 acuminate and acute. Petioles to 4 cm. long, red and roughened 

 like the branchlets. deeply channeled above. Blades to 7 cm. 

 long, and 8 cm. broad, oblanceolate, with acutish base and ab- 

 ruptly short-pointed and acute summit, entire, pale-green, thick- 

 ish, the midrib very stout, prominent beneath, nerved, the slen- 

 der secondaries about 15 on a side, diverging at a right angle, the 

 outer ends strongly upcurved and looped together near the mar- 

 gin, the venation strongly and prominently anastomosing. 

 Fruits axillary, apparently solitary, shortly peduncled, the sub- 

 tending bracts not seen, globose, about 1 cm. in diameter, the 



