NEW PHILIPPINE MORACEAE 
By Elmer D. Merrill 
Director cmd Botanist, Bureau of Science, Manila 
The present paper consists chiefly of the descriptions of twenty- 
two presumably new species of Moraceae, although notes on a 
few previously described forms are included. Of the new species 
two belong in the genus Artocarpus, one in Conocephalus, one in 
Cudrania, and the remainder in the genus Ficus. Artocarpus 
superba Becc., previously known only from Borneo, is here re- 
corded from Mindanao and Basilan, while the genus Gymnarto- 
carpus is first credited to the Archipelago by the transfer to it 
of Artocarpus woodii Merr. Ficus crininervia Miq. is recorded 
for the first time from the Archipelago. 
ARTOCARPUS Forster 
ARTOCARPUS ACUMINATISSIMA sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 10 m alta, plus minusve hirsuta ; foliis oblongis, 
chartaceis, integris vel sursum minute denticulatis, usque ad 35 
cm longis, basi leviter cordatis, apice longissime tenuiter caudato- 
acuminatis, nervis utrinque circiter 20, subtus perspicuis ; recep- 
taculis laevis, ovoideis, saltern 3.5 cm diametro, anthocarpiis 
planis, indistinctis, seminibus subglobosis, circiter 1 cm diametro. 
A tree, about 10 m high, the branchlets, petioles, and lower 
surfaces of the leaves distinctly hirsute with short, spreading, 
more or less scattered hairs. Branches dark-brown, glabrous, 
the ultimate ones 4 mm in diameter or less. Leaves oblong, equi- 
lateral, chartaceous, 30 to 35 cm long, 9 to 12 cm wide, entire, 
or distantly and minutely denticulate in the upper part, base 
rounded distinctly but slightly cordate, apex very long caudate- 
acuminate, the acumen up to 4 cm long, acute, the upper surface 
brown and shining when dry, glabrous except the more or less 
pubescent midrib ; petioles about 1 cm long. Receptacles axillary, 
solitary, ovoid, at least 3.5 cm in diameter, the peduncles 6 to 7 
cm long. Anthocarps numerous, but few maturing seeds, their 
tips plane, indistinct, less than 1 mm in diameter, forming a 
smooth fruit. Seeds subglobose, about 1 cm in diameter. 
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