866 
The Philippine Journal of Science 
1913 
A tree, apparently starting as an epiphyte, 6 to 10 m high or 
more, entirely glabrous. Branches terete, brownish, prominently 
wrinkled when dry, the ultimate ones 3 to 4 mm in diameter. 
Leaves thickly coriaceous, oblong to elliptic, 10 to 15 cm long, 
4.5 to 8 cm wide, pale-brownish and somewhat shining when 
dry, smooth, entire, apex broadly and shortly blunt-acumnate, 
base acute to somewhat rounded, distinctly 3-plinerved, some- 
times with a very obscure slender pair of submarginal nerves 
added, margins slightly recurved, the lower surface densely 
and minutely puncticulate ; primary lateral nerves about 12 on 
each side of the midrib, slender, straight or but slightly curved, 
sometimes not much more prominent than are the secondary ones, 
anastomosing with a slender, somewhat arched-anastomosing, con- 
tinuous, submarginal nerve within about 2 mm of the margin; 
petioles 2.5 to 3.5 cm long; stipules deciduous, lanceolate, gla- 
brous, long-acuminate, 2 to 2.7 cm long. Receptacles solitary or 
in pairs, axillary, sessile, globose, red when mature, glabrous, 1.3 
to 1.5 cm in diameter, laxly and prominently wrinkled when dry, 
prominently umbonate at the apex, each receptacle subtended by 
an involucre of three, persistent, coriaceous, broadly ovate, obtuse 
or broadly acute bracts about 1 cm in length, brown when dry. 
Leyte, Dagami, C. A. Wenzel 209 (type), June 27, 1913, in forests. 
To this species I also refer the following specimens: Luzon, Province of 
I/aguna, Pililla-Mavitac trail. Bur. Sci. 11950 Robinson & Ramos. Negros, 
For. Bur. ^261. Everett. Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Hallier s. n. 
The species is manifestly allied to the Javan Ficus callophylla Blume, 
but is apparently sufficiently distinct. Javan specimens, so named, present 
numerous minor characters in which the species differs fi-om the form here 
described. King’s plate is unsatisfactory as it was drawn from an immature 
specimen, and to me Plume’s species does not appear to be closely allied 
to Ficus elastica as King claims. The minutely puncticulate lower surfaces 
of the leaves of Ficus pachyphylla is apparently characteristic for the 
species. Ficus pachyphylla is also closely allied to Ficus clusioides Miq., a 
species based on an immature specimen collected in the Philippines by 
Cuming. 
FtCUS VIRIDIFOLIA sp. nov. (§ Paleomorphe.) 
Frutex circiter 4 m altus, ramulis teretibus, elongatis, leviter 
hispidis; foliis alternis, brevissime petiolatis, chartaceis, plus 
minusve hispidis, oblongis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, leviter falcatis, 
integris, usque ad 25 cm longis, apice tenuiter longe caudato- 
acuminatis, basi inaequilateralibus, distincte obliquiis, in siccitate 
utrinque viridis, nervis utrinque circiter 12, remotis, prominenti- 
bus, anastomosantibus ; receptaculis axillaribus, fasciculatis, 
pedunculatis, subglobosis ad globoso-ovoideis, hispidis, 5 ad 7 
mm diametro. 
