sm-face ; reccptaclcs sessile, in pairs, a:5:inar7, oWong to siib-oboratc, truncate, or slightly
depressed at tlie apex, when yoiing flocculent-tomentose, when ripe nearly glabrous,
1 in. long- and orange rod ; basal bracts 3, broadly triangular, blunt, spreading; male
fiowers near apex of receptacle, rather numerous, pcdicillate; stamen 1, the anther cells
sut-globxilar, periantli of i pieces; gall flowers broad, smooth, witli short sub-tenninal style;
fertile females with ovoid achene and elongate lateral sts le. As in F. Bcngaleiisis, Linn, and
several other species, the young receptacles are enclosed in calyptriform involucres.
VAK. 1. PUBESCACNS.—F. Ro t h Nov. Spec. PI. 3S7.—I'. rvpesiris, Ham.
(non El.) in Linn. Trans, xv. 137.— Urosf, dasycaiyum, Miq. in Lond.
Journ. Bot. -ià. 574 ; Dalz. and Gibs. Fl. Bomb. 2 4 2 . - / 1 tomentosa, Herb.
Madras, Wall. Cat. 4499; Wight (Kew Dist.) 2753.
Leaves smaller than in typical form, with proportionately fewer lateral primary nerves
and often with répand edges ; toraentnm denser, longer, more copious and of a deep
ferruginous red colom-, especially on the very young parts.
The above two forms occur in j^^niusulaa* India and Ceylon, ascending to elevations
of about 2,500 ft.
VAE. 2. SUB-EEP.VÌÌDA.—sul-repmiiìa, Wall. Cat. 4568A, not B.—F. laieritia, WaH.
Cat. 4496D {sul> M//svrevsis).
Leaves larger than in type, often narrowed, 7- to 9-uervcd at the base, primary
lateral nerves 12 to 20 paii-s, when adult quite glabrous, sub-scabrid, and dotted ; receptacles
sessile, ovoid when young, globular, smooth, orange red and about 1-5 in. across when ripe.
This form is not found in Southern India, but it replaces the other two at the base of the
Eastern Himalaya, in the Khasi Hills, and in the Biu-mese hill ranges at elevations of from
1,000 to 2,000 ft. It grows to be a very large tree.
I n my remarks on the synonymy of F. Bengalensis, Linn. I have explained that
Rheede's figure of this plant was cited b y Linna3us under his description of the true banyan.
As regards the older synonyms of tliis species, I have no doubt that F. pubeseens, Roth, and
F. Masonmis, Heyne, although kept distinct b y Roth, are, as is evident from Roth's own descriptions,
one and the same. There is a specimen at Kew from Rottler's Herbai-ium bearing two
labels in (I presmne ) Ileyiie's handwi-iting. Both are dated 1808. One bears the name
' F. linaoremis nobis,'' and on the other are written the words ' Ficus sp. n. ? ' The specimen
pasted down on the sheet with these two labels consists of three separate leaves, a fragnientarj
»- fruiting-twig, and some loose receptacles, all belonging to F. Dalhousioe, Miq., a plant
which agi-ees with neither of Roth's descriptions just quoted. There must therefore have
been some mixing up of material. As to the validity of the reduction of F. rui>estn.i, Ham.
to the present species, I feel i>retty confident. Hamilton (1. c.) says that F. tomentosa, Roxb. is
either the same as F. anniria, Ham., a spccies which he (Ham.) found in Behar, or the same
as F. rvpestns, Ham., a species from Mysore. Now specimens of F. asinina, Ham. named by
the author's own hand show it to be true F. tomentosa, Roxb., a species found both in Behar
and Mysore, whereas mpcstris is according to Hamilton a Mysore plant; and tlie species
to which I reduce it, viz. F. Mysorensis, is found in Mysore, but not in Behar. 1''hore is
confusion in the Wallichian material which falls into tliis species and wliich was distributed
as Mys'^m^is, tomenUsa and rcpamia.
Wall. Cat. Nos. 44i)6A, B, and C, distributed as Mym-eitnis, Herb. Madj-a.^, are
typical Mysomuis, llcyne.
UEOSTIGMA.
No. 4496D is F Mi/smnsi¡, Heyne, npmtia.
4499 distributed as t . Ummtom, Herb. Madi-as, is F. M,j>ormm, Heyne,
Tar. J)uhescen3.
4568A is F. Mtjmmsu, Heyne, Tar.
4Ó68B is a small iivig of something totally different, wlucli I haTe not
been able to identify, bnt whicli resembles one of the forms of
F. ittfeckn-ia, Willd.
FIAT,.: 14.^1". He y n e . Fruiting-branch of the typical form, with separate
figures of the apex of a twig wi th two stipules detached ; of a receptado seen f rom aboTO ; of the
basal bracts of a receptacle: olí » / " ' » " ¡ S i " « - i , wi t b s n m r a t e
PLATE 15 -Fr u i t i n g - b r a n c h of F Mporenm, Heyne, Tar. .ub-nfmda, with separate
f i ™ of base and apex and Tei-tieal section of a receptacle : all,./ nal^ural »»
PLATE 8 1 ' . - 1 , male flower ; 2, gall flower ; 3, fertile femal e : Ȁ mlargei.
1,5 FICL-S PILOSA, Beinw. in Bl. Biß. 446; Mi,, (sui Ur«t.) Zoll. ü f t . Ver.
90 96; Fl. Ini. Bat. i. I>t. 2. 351; Bmth. Fl. Amtrül. TI. 164.-P™í.
Ucor«, Miq. PI. Jungh. 47; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 850, pt. 24A. -
IJrost sub-cüspidalum, Miq. Zoll. Syst. Verz. 97.
A laro-e tree, with a few aerial roots; young parts coTorod with short floeeulent (usually
„-ay) tomentum which is speedily deciduous; leaTes sub-coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to oboTated
l i p i , naixowed, rounded, ortruncate, often sub-eordate, and occasionally slight y unequd a
t h e base ; apex with a short, abrupt, blunt apiculus ; edges entire, shghtly undulate ; length of
blade 3'5 in - neiwes about 8 to 11 paii-s, curving and anastomosing near margin; petioles
-5 to -8 in • stipules -4 to -6 in. long, membranous, rufous, tomentose wlien young; receptacles
axillary, sessile, in pairs, OToid-oylindrical, umhonate, -75 in. loiig,^ reddish and
I b r o u s when ripe, with 3 minute roimded membranous eiUate bracts at then- bases ; male
Sowers on short t L k pedicels, the perianth of 4 hyaline pieccs ; anther 1, the hlament stout,
short; gall flowers with gamophyllous 3- to 4-tootlied, oblique, closely-emhracing peiiaiith,
style elongate, stigma flattened, oTary smooth; fertile female flowers very l i e the galls,
but the perianth less distmet and tho achene broader and tuborculate.
VAU. OHKTSOCOSIA.-Í'. cirgmoma, BL Bijd 443.-C™RF. CFRYMITE, Miq.; Zoil.
Syst. Verz. 90, 96.
Tomentum more copious than in type, and of a bright rufous colour-.
Ponang, Java, Borneo, and probably in other parts of the Malayan Archipelago;
' TMsipecies eomes Tory near F. He y n e , and I gi-eatly doubt -whether it should
be kept separate. My own opinion is that fui-ther obserTation in the held will proTO tins
and Miisoravs to bo but forms of one plant. . „ „
The Tariety cAr¡,,cmna runs exactly parallel to tho Tariety pubesam of F. Mymrmns.
None of tho Indo-Malayan specimens of this in the Herbaria of Hew, Brit. Museum, Leiden,
Utrecht, or Calcutta, liaTe good fruit. I am therefore obliged to describe the receptados
from a specimen from Queensland.
PL.n-E 16.—Twig of F. pilosa, Reinw. with ripe receptacles : ofmUral size.
PLÍÍB 81'.—1, imcxpanded male flower ; 2, male flower opened out ; 3, gall flower ;
4, fertile female flower : all enlarged.