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about 1 cm. long, both surfaces somewhat shining, the upper glabrous, the lower 
paler, slightly pubescent on the nerves and midrib; nerves about 4 on each side of 
the midrib, prominent beneath, ascending, anastomosing, the primary reticulations 
distinct; petioles, pubescent, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long; stipules caducous, ovate lanceo- 
late, acuminate, densely pubescent. Eeceptacles in fascicles on the larger branches, 
3 to 6 or more fruits in each fascicle, depressed globose or obovoid, about 1.4 
cm. in diameter, glabrous, rugose when dry, yellowish when fresh, the pedicels 
slender, glabrous, about 1.5 cm. long, with three small bracteoles at the apex. 
Male flowers not seen. Fertile female flowers numerous. Perianth 4-lobed, lan- 
ceolate, 1 to 1.5 mm. long. Ovary obovoid, about 1.5 mm. long, the style lateral, 
stout, about 1 mm. long. 
(2849 Meyer) March. In forests river canon at about 900 ni. Apparently 
related to Ficus sycomoroides Miq., from Amboina. 
11. F. variegata Blume; King, 1. c. 169. pi. 212 j Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 
17 (1904) 14. 
(354, GOl Barnes) March; (171 Merrill). Decades Philippine Forest FI., coll. 
Borden, April; (779, 1177, 1551, 1625 Borden) May, August. In forests 100 to 
200 m. Malaya. T., Tangisang bayauac. 
§ Sycidium. 
12. F. ampelas Bunn.; King. 1. c. 90. pi. 111/. 
(587 Barnes) March; (081 Borden) May; (275 Merrill) Decades Philippine 
Forest FI., coll. Borden, August. In forests 150 to 200 m., not previously reported 
from the Philippines. Malaya. 
13. F. hauili Blanco, FI. Filip, ed. 1 (1837) 684; ed. 2 (1845) 475. 
(1677, 2014, Borden) August, October; (1475 Ahcni’s collector) July; (6771 
Elmer) November. In thickets and open forests below 150 m., abundant and 
widely distributed in the Philippines, apparently endemic. T., Hauili. 
No. 2839 Meyer, from forests at 1,100 m., is similar to the above specimens 
except that it has small apparently immature fruits. 
14. F. rostrata Lam.; King. 1. c. 86. pi. 110. 
(6159 Leiberg) July; (2851, 3116 Meyer) March, May; (1210 Borden) June. 
In forests 800 to 1,100 m., scandent. British India and Malaya. T., Balete. 
15. F. sinuosa Miq.; Hook. Loud. Journ. Bot. 7 (1848) 232. 
(6023 Leiberg) July; (2522 Meyer) February; (777, 2559 Borden) May, 
February. Abundant in thickets below 100 m., widely distributed in the Philip- 
pines. Endemic (?). T., Isis. 
One of the most common species of the genus in the Philippines, and exceedingly 
variable, reduced by King to Ficus heteropliylla Linn., but Ficus sinuosa is always 
an erect shrub, never scandent. 
16. Ficus valldicaudata Merrill, sp. nov. 
A small tree 7 to 8 mr high with small, lanceolate to ovate lanceolate very 
long-caudate-acuminate leaves, and small axillary solitary long peduncled recep- 
tacles. Branches slender, brown, glabrous or slightly scabrous pubescent. Leaves 
3 to 6 cm. long, 0.8 to 1.5 cm. wide, sometimes 10 cm. long and nearly 3 cm. 
wide, subcoriaceous, scabrous, shining, not at all pubescent, entire, the base acute, 
3-nerved, the apex long narrowly caudate acuminate, the acumen one third to 
nearly one half as long as the blade; nerves 4 to 5 on each side of the midrib, 
distant, rather distinct beneath, anastomosing, the reticulations distinct, lax ; 
petioles 3 to 4 mm. long; stipules glabrous, lanceolate, caducous, about 4 mm. 
long. Receptacles subglobose, glabrous, red when mature, 4 to 5 mm. in diam- 
eter, the jjeduneles slender, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, with three small bracts at the 
apex. Fertile female flowers sessile or pedicelled; perianth lobes 5, free, 1.5 to 
