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obscure ; basal bracts broadly ovate or reniform, coriaceous, rounded, im- 
bricate, about 1.5 cm wide, reaching to about the middle of the mature 
receptacles. Male flowers numerous, pedicellate, the perianth of two 
coriaceous ovate lobes 1 mm long, about equaling the solitary stamen; 
anther 1.5 mm long, subsessile. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 7 03, 1/21, September, 
March, 1906, and without numbers, February and September-October, 1907. 
A species allied to Ficus procera Iieimv., F. rigida Miq., and F. involucrata 
Bl., well characterized, however, by its very large involucrate basal bracts and 
obscure ostiole. 
Ficus cordatula Merrill sp. nov. § Urostigma. 
Arbor magna, glabra, ramulis exceptis; foliis coriaceis, ellipticis vel 
oblongo-ovatis, breviter acuminatis, basi cordatis, 20 ad 28 cm longis, 
nervis utrinque 10 ad 12, prominentibus ; receptaculis axillaribus, ses- 
silibus, glabris, ellipsoideis vel oblongo-ovoideis, ca. 3 cm longis, basi 
3-bracteatis, bracteis plus minus hirsutis, 7 mm longis, 10 ad 12 mm latis. 
A large tree, glabrous except the branchlets which are more or less 
hirsute, the branches brown or gray, angular, stout, marked with annular 
scars. Leaves elliptical to oblong-ovate, coriaceous, shining above, 20 to 
28 cm long, 9 to 15 cm wide, entire, or the margins slightly undulate, 
apex short and abruptly acuminate, the base rather broad, rounded, 
cordate, the sinus narrow, the lobes somewhat overlapping; nerves 10 to 
12 on each side of the midrib, very prominent, anastomosing, distant, the 
reticulations distinct, the base with two stout nerves and several short 
fainter ones; petioles stout, 5 to 7 cm long; stipules ovate, acute or 
acuminate, hirsute, 2 to 2.5 cm long. Eeeeptacles axillary, sessile, 
glabrous, ellipsoid or oblong-ovoid, about 3 cm long, 2 cm thick, the base 
with three broad bracts which are slightly hirsute, about 7 mm long, 10 
to 12 mm wide. Male flowers few, only near the ostiole, about 5 mm long, 
the pedicels hirsute ; perianth 2-lobed, inclosing the nearly sessile anther. 
Gall flowers sessile or pedicelled, the pedicels hirsute, the perianth inclos- 
ing the turgid 2 mm long ovary. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 1089, June, 1907, and 
without number, September-October, 1907. 
A species allied to Ficus altissima Blume and F. annulata Blume, well charac- 
terized by its large sessile fruits and cordate leaves. 
Ficus puncticulata Merrill sp. nov. § Eusyce "? 
Arbor parva; ramulis, foliis subtus in nervis, petiolisque pauce hir- 
sutis; foliis subeoriaceis, ovatis vel oblongo-ovatis, nitidis, 4 ad 6 cm 
longis, basi late rotunclatis vel leviter cordatis, apice acuminatis, subtus 
minutissime puncticulatis ; nervis subtus prominentibus, utrinque 3, as- 
cendentibus; receptaculis axillaribus, sessilibus, solitariis, ea. 5 mm diam., 
glabris vel minute scaberrimis. 
A small tree, the branches gray or reddish, the branchlets slender. 
