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outbreaks against the constituted authority were of not. infrequent oc- 
currence during the period while the collections here considered were being 
made, so that it was unsafe to go far from the military post without 
an escort. In addition to the element of personal danger attending 
botanizing in the region, the humidity is so high that good specimens 
could be prepared only with difficulty. Under the circumstances Mrs. 
Clemens is to be congratulated on the extent and value of the material 
which she secured. 
The first set of the collection is deposited in the Herbarium of the 
Bureau of Science, where the types of the species here described are to 
be found. With the exception of the first set, and some specimens that 
have been sent to various specialists for study, the collection remains at 
the disposition of the collector. 
URTICACEHE. 
LEU COSY KE Zoll. & Mor. 
Leucosyke candidissima (Blume) Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 16 1 (1869) 235 20 . 
Urtica candidissima Blume Bijdr. (1825) 498. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens, September, 1907. 
A very striking species, previously known only from Java, the third of the 
genus to be found in the Philippines. 
MORACEH1 
FICUS Linn. 
Ficus dementis Merrill sp. nov. § Urostigma. 
Arbor procera, glabra; ramulis crassis, annulatis, angulatis; foliis 
coriaceis, oblongis vel elliptico-oblongis, breviter obtuseque acuminatis, 
basi acutis vel rotundatis, usque ad 20 cm longis, longe petiolatis; nervis 
utrinque ca. 7 ; receptaculis sessilibus, axillaribus, solitariis vel binis, 
ovoideis vel ellipsoideis, 2 ad 2.5 cm longis, basi grosse 3-bracteatis, brac- 
teolis involucrantibus, usque ad receptaculi medium porrectis. 
A very large tree, glabrous throughout. Branches thick, reddish- 
brown, angular, with many annular scars. Leaves oblong or elliptical- 
oblong, coriaceous, shining, 20 cm long or less, 7 to 10 cm wide, entire, 
apex shortly and obtusely acuminate, base rounded or acute, usually rather 
abruptly narrowed at both ends; primary nerves about 7 on each side of 
tlie midrid, anastomosing near the margins, and with alternating rather 
distinct secondary nerves, the reticulations rather close; petioles 5 to 
7 cm long, the very young branches with numerous deciduous membranous 
lanceolate 8 cm long stipules, the apical scales on older branches coria- 
ceous, ovate, short-acuminate, 1.5 to 2 cm long. Receptacles solitary or in 
pairs in the leaf axils, sessile, ovoid or ellipsoid, 2 to 2.5 cm long, when 
young entirely enclosed in the basal bracts, apex rounded, the ostiole 
