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perianth segments 4, pale, membranaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, 
glabrous, 2.5 to 3.5 mm long. Ovary ovoid-ellipsoid, 1.5 mm 
in diameter ; style lateral, brown, 0.7 mm long. 
Luzon, Nueva Ecija Province, Mount Umingan, Bur. Sci. 
26492 Ramos & Edaho, August 3, 1916, in thickets along small 
streams at low altitudes. 
This characteristic species in many respects resembles Ficus 
cumingii Miq., but is distinguished by its smaller, fewer-nerved, 
alternate leaves and its very conspicuous erect bracteoles about 
the ostiole. From Ficus blepharostoma Warb. it is distinguished 
by its very differently shaped, much smaller leaves. 
FICUS LINEARIS sp. nov. § Sycidium. 
Frutex circiter 1 m altus, glaber; foliis linearis vel lineari- 
lanceolatis, usque ad 10 cm longis et 1 cm latis, rectis vel leviter 
falcatis, tenuiter acuminatis, laevis, nervis obscuris ; receptaculis 
axillaribus, pedicellatis, depresso-globosis, circiter 1 cm diametro, 
plus minusve angulatis, extus lenticellatis. 
A shrub, about 1 m high, entirely glabrous. Branches terete, 
reddish-brown, smooth, very slightly wrinkled when dry. Leaves 
alternate, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, linear or linear-lanceo- 
late, 5 to 10 cm long, 0.5 to 1 cm wide, straight or somewhat 
falcate, entire, smooth, shining, the apex slenderly acuminate, 
the base acute or cuneate, subequally narrowed at both ends, 
lower surface puncticulate ; lateral nerves obscure, 10 to 15 on 
each side of the midrib, obscurely anastomosing, the reticula- 
tions obsolete or nearly so; petioles 3 to 5 mm long; stipules 
lanceolate, acuminate, brown up to 1.5 cm long, deciduous. 
Receptacles axillary, solitary or in pairs, peduncled, depressed- 
globose, longitudinally ridged or angled, lenticellate, about 
1 cm in diameter, glabrous, the peduncles up to 6 mm in length. 
Fertile female flowers numerous, sessile or pedicelled, the pedi- 
cels up to 1 mm in length; ovary obovoid, 1 to 1.2 mm long; 
segments very greatly reduced; styles 1 to 1.2 mm long, lateral, 
sparingly hirsute. Gall and male flowers not seen. 
Samar, along streams, Bur. Sci. 17433 Ramos, April 22, 1914. 
A species well characterized by its very narrow, linear or 
linear-lanceolate leaves. It is manifestly in the same group 
with Ficus leucantatoma Poir., F. hauili Blanco, etc., and has the 
same type of angled or ridged fruits as those species; it is, 
however, remarkably distinct in its vegetative characters. 
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