VIII. C. 6 
Merrill: Plantae Wenzelianae 
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A shrub about 4 m high. Branchlets terete, slender, pale- 
brown, somewhat striate-wrinkled when dry, somewhat hispid 
with short, scattered, stiff hairs. Leaves alternate, narrowly 
oblong to oblong-lanceolate, somewhat falcate, chartaceous, entire, 
rather bright-green on both surfaces when dry, somewhat shin- 
ing, distinctly roughened by minute papillae on both surfaces, 
22 to 25 cm long, 6 to 7 cm wide, the base inequilateral, distinctly 
oblique, one side acute, the other narrowly rounded and extending 
along the midrib several mm farther than the narrower side, the 
apex long and slenderly caudate-acuminate, the acumen 2 to 2.5 
cm long ; lateral nerves about 12 on each side of the midrib, promi- 
nent, distant, anastomosing, the reticulations lax, distinct ; petioles 
about 2 mm long, hispid-hirsute ; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 
about 1 mm long. Receptacles axillary, fascicled, up to 6 in each 
axil, red, subglobose to globose-ovoid, 5 to 7 mm in diameter, 
externally scabrid-hispid, the peduncles hispid-hii-sute, about 3 
mm long, each with about 3, distant, scattered, ovate to oblong- 
ovate bracts less than 1 mm long, and also with usually 2 or 
3 similar bracts on the lower one-half of the receptacle itself. 
Fertile female flowers numerous, sessile, the perianth membrana- 
ceous, deeply cut into 4, narrowly lanceolate, sparingly hispid, 
2 to 2.2 mm long lobes, the ovary narrowly oblong-ovoid, strongly 
inequilateral, 1.5 mm long, smooth, the base subtruncate, attached 
by one side, the apex obtuse, bearing the style on the same side 
as the basal attachment, the style about 1 mm long, narrowly 
clavate. 
Leyte, Dagami, C. A. Wenzel 1^5, June 22, 1913, in forests, the trunk 
reaching a diameter of 10 cm. 
A species apparently manifestly allied to Ficus celebica Blume, F. pisifera 
Wall., etc., but distinguished at once by its much longer, more numerously 
nerved leaves. 
FICUS WENZELI! sp. nov. (§ Sycidium ?) 
Frutex circiter 4 m altus, plus minusve hirsutus; ramulis 
teretibus, hirsutis, brunneis; foliis late obovatis ad obovatis vel 
ovatis, chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, usque ad 30 cm longis, subin- 
tegris, apice tenuiter acuminatis, basi leviter inaequilateraliter 
cordatis, 7- vel 9-nerviis, in siccitate subtus brunneis, puncticuia- 
tis, parce hispido-hirsutis, nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 
10 ; receptaculis hirsutis, axillaribus, solitariis, late obovoideis, 1 
ad 1.5 cm diametro (immaturis). 
A shrub about 4 m high. Branches brown, terete, prominently 
hirsute, the ultimate ones about 5 mm in diameter. Leaves 
opposite, firmly chartaceous to subcoriaceous, broadly obovate to 
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