The Philippine Journal of Science, C. Botany. 
Vol. VI, No. 5, November, 1911. 
ALABASTRA PHIL1PPINENSI A, III. 
By C. B. Robinson. 
( From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, 
Manila, P. I.) 
This paper will be devoted in its entirety to miscellaneous descriptions 
or notes upon various genera or species which have been accumulated at 
various times. The most noteworthy point is the discovery in the Phil- 
ippines of the genus Pimelea, whose many species are confined to the 
Australian region, except that herein described and one from Timor. 
MORACEAE. 
FICUS Linn. 
Ficus sericea sp. nov. § Sycidium. 
Arbor magna: receptaculis sessilibus, axillaribus, magnis, ellipsoideis, 
extus seficeis : f oliis chartaceis, glabris, admodum magnis, elliptico- 
oblongis vel subovalibus, basi cordatis, subpeltatis, apice breviter acu- 
minatis. 
Bracts lunate or nearly plano-convex, very broadly rounded at the 
apex, 3.5 mm long, 8 mm wide, imbricate, clasping, tomentose : receptacles 
axillary, sessile, ellipsoid, 3.5 cm long, 2 cm in diameter, densely yellow- 
ish-villose-tomentose with hairs up to 4 mm long on the outside, very 
scaly within : staminate flowers unknown : pistillate perianth-segments 
4, linear or linear-lanceolate, 2 mm long, 0.2 mm wide, long-attenuate 
or more rarely' rounded at the apex, costa prominent ; ovary sessile, ellip- 
soid, about 1.3 mm long, gradually attenuate into an undivided style of 
equal or slightly greater length. 
A' tree 24 m high, the trunk 70 cm in diameter, the ultimate branches 
yellowish, annulate, rather densely villose-pubescent: petioles 3 to 4 cm 
long, 3.5 to 4 mm wide, with more scattered villose pubescence; lamina 
chartaceous, glabrous, subpeltate, elliptic-oblong or nearly oval, 20 to 
28 cm long, 12 to 14 cm wide, the base cordate, the sinus very narrow, 
1 cm deep, its sides overlapping on the upper side of the petiole, slightly 
undulate or entire on the margins, the apex forming a very short obtuse 
acumen or an acute acumen 15 mm long; two pairs of veins radiating 
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