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Receptacles axillary, mostly in pairs, sessile or subsessile but prolonged 
into a pseudostalk 1-2 mm long, globose, 5-6.5 mm in diameter ; pseudo- 
hermaphrodite and gall flowers in the same receptacles, but no female 
flowers seen : pseudohermaphrodite flowers very few, close beneath the 
ostiole ; the perianth segments 4, oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, ciliate, 
purplish, 1.5 mm long, 0.4 mm wide; the solitary stamen and the ovary 
not, comparatively, equally developed in the flowers examined; the fila- 
ment 0.3-0. 8 mm long, rather stout, the anther oblong or obovate, 0.5 mm 
long; the rudimentary ovary with a stalk 0.6-1 mm long and 0.3 mm 
wide, the ovary itself 0.6-0. 8 mm long, the style evident along its back 
almost from its base and projecting 2 mm or more from its middle or 
above; stigma very small, capitate; gall flowers except for the absence of 
the stamen very similar to the pseudohermaphrodite ones; very sliort- 
pedicelled, the perianth-lobes often more or less united, oblanceolate, often 
falcate, 1.5 mm long, 0.4 mm wide; the stalk of the ovary 0.6-1 mm long, 
the ovary 0.9 mm long, 0.6 mm wide, obovoid, the style as above. 
Described by the different collectors as a tree attaining a height of 
10 m, with a trunk diameter of 14 cm, or as growing on tree-trunks, 
the bark of the younger branches yellowish or brownish, striate, glabrous ; 
the leaves borne on petioles 3-18 mm long, the lamina glabrous, entire, 
oblong or nearly so, 8-20 cm long, 3. 5-8. 2 cm wide, acute and inaequila- 
teral at the base, at the apex abruptly contracted into a narrow acumen 
8-15 mm long, obtuse and mucronate or retuse at the apex, bluish-green 
on the upper surface, beneath light-green with yellowish veins and very 
numerous minute papillae, 3-nerved at the base, lateral veins on either 
side of the midrib 8-1 1, with a few intervening ones nearly as prominent, 
the lateral veins well arched, reticulations only moderately numerous but 
conspicuous, especially on the under surface ; stipules lanceolate, 3-3.5 
mm long, 1 mm wide. 
Type collected at an elevation of 100 m at San Ramon, District of Zam- 
boanga, Mindanao, by E. B. Copeland, No. 1606, January 22, 1904; also rep- 
resented by Copeland 1637, from the same locality, February 12, 1905; by 
Williams 2097, 2151, from Sax River (practically the same locality), February 
3-10, 1905; and by Ahern 51^1, from Tetuan, in the same district, May, 1901. 
Ficus williamsii sp. nov. § Eusyce. 
Scandens vel arbor; receptaculis axillaribus, pedunculis 6-10 mm 
longis; floribus masculinis pentameris, staminibus duobus; floribus femi- 
neis tetrameris, stylo ultra 1 mm, bifido ; foliis lanceolatis, ellipticis, 
oblanceolatis, vel obovatis, basi acutis vel rotundatis, apice rotundatis, vel 
breviter vel med'iocriter obtuse acuminatis. 
Receptacles usually in pairs in the axils of present or fallen leaves, 
borne on slender peduncles which are 6-10 mm long, minutely pubescent, 
angled when dry; bracts at base of receptacles cupular, deeply divided 
into 3 semiorbicular lobes 0.8 mm long and 1. 2-1.4 mm wide, rounded 
