^ On the plains and on the lower slopes of monntain ranges in Bramah, the Malayan
peninsula and islands. Common.
Tliis is a widely distributed spooies, and therefore assmnos seyeral forms. The eoinmonest
of these is that with broadly-basod glabrous loayes, which Bhime (from the ourions annulns
near the apex of the reoeptaoidar pedicel) called mm,Ma. The mountain form, with the
b ^ e s of the loaves narrowed, he called J . a n d to this Miqucl addod the synonym
F. bwerruoellum, wlrich he himself afterwards reduced. The form, with leaves slightly hairy
below, sericeous stipules and short tomentose pedicels, Blume called mlii«-, and on the
specimens of this form from various parts of the Malayan Archipelago, Miquel at different
times founded Ins two species UroMgma d^fresmm and c ommf um. I have examined the types
of all these at Leiden and Uti-ecbt, and I find the differences between them and typical
F. annuiata, BI. so slight that it is only in deference to the authority of Blume that I keep as
varieties the two most divergent of these, %-iz. Jlaveseens and valida. The cm-ious annulus on
the pedicel is common to all the forms.
V,M. \. I-LAVESOEKS (specios Bl.) F. Iwa-rucdhm, l l i q . I of leaves much
narrowed.
This form, which occm-s chiefly inBm-moh, received specific rank from Blume and Miquel.
I n Java and the other Malayan islands it is confined to mountain slopes about 5,000 ft.
above the sea. In the neighbourhood of Calcutta and about other stations ii Lower Bengal
it is in cultivation under the name of F. Tnaijnifoiia.
VAS. 2. YALIDA (species BL). Leaves puberalous below, especially on the nerves ;
stipules adpressed-soriceous beneath ; pedicels only -So in. long, very thick,
deeiduously tomentose. '
PLATE 23,—Twig of F. anmlata, with an almost matm-e receptacle. Separate drawings
of one of the largest stipules, and views of apex and base of a receptaelc : att of
natural size.
PLATE 23.—Twig of F. annulaia, var. valida, with two nearly ripe receptacles.
Separate di-awings to show base, apex, and sides of receptacles, and two stipules of the
smaller size.
PLATESI'.—1, male flower; 2 stamen, the perianth being removed; 3, gall flower;
4, fertile female flower: enlarijtd. '
22. Ficus BEDDOMEI, uov. spec.
A tree ? All parts glabrous, young branches tliick, with pale bark; leaves coriaceous, longpetiolate,
ovate-rotund or broadly ovate, shortly acuminate, edges entire slightly undulate
base broad, truncate, or very slightly emarginate, 3-neryed; lateral primary nerves neaily
a t right angles to the midrib, about 13 paii-s, prominent on both sm-faces; length of blado
about 7 in., breadth at broadest part rather more than 4 in.; petioles stout, about 3-5 in.
long; stipules lanceolate, about -5 in. long; receptacles pedunculate, axillary, in pairs,
ovoid or slightly obovoid, with a rather prominent apical umbilicus and several vertical
ridges, smooth, 1 in. long, and about To in. across, basal bracts 3, small, broacUy triangular,
coriaceous, united by their- bases; pcdnncles stout, -IS in. long; male ¡lowers, numerous,
scattered, shortly pedicillate, the anther broad, .single, sessile, the"perianth of 3 or 3 piecos ;
gall and fertile female flowers shortly podicillate, the perianth of 4 or 5 lancoolate pieces
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(ripe achenes unknown); the whole of the interior of the receptacle covered between the
insertious of the flowers with long, narrow, pointed scales.
S. India, Tinnivelly Hills,—Co?. R. H. Beddome.
A very remarkable species, of which I have seen only three specimens, all collected
by Col. Beddome.
PLATE 24.—Fruiting-branch of F. Beddomei, King, Sepai'ate figures of receptacles, basal
bracts, and stipules: all of natural size.
PL.i.TE 81"'.—1, male flower, the anther removed; 2, the same, the perianth removed;
3, female flower: all enlarged.
23. FICUS GLOBOSA, .SZ. Bijd. 449; Miq. in Ann. Mas. Lugd. Bat. iii. 285.—
Urost. globosum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. ZZ5.— Urost. Manok, Miq.
in Zoll. Syst. Verz. 90, 96; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 337.—f. onus/a,
Wall. Cat. 4563; Kui-z For. Flora Brit. Bm-m. ii. iil.—Urost. onnstum,
Miq. in Lond. Jom-n. Bot. yi, 575; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 336.—
F. firma, Wall. Cat. 4564A and B.
A large climber, the younger branches covcred with deciduous brown scm-f, with which
are mixed a few hairs, ultimately all parts glabrous; leaves tliinly coriaceous, petiolate,
elliptic, or oblong (obovatc-elliptic in var. manok), apex suddenly shortly cuspidate, edges
ontn-e; base broad, rounded, slightly emarginate (narrowed in vai-. manok), 3-nerved; lateral
primary nerves, 6 to 9 pairs, neai'ly at right angles to the midiib, rather prominent below;
length 3-5 to 6-5 in.; petioles -o to 1'5 in. long; stipules deciduous, linear, acute, from
•75 to 2-5 in. long; receptacles shortly pedunculate, in pairs, axillary, subglobular and
umbonate when young, when ripe depressed at the apex, almost turbinate; -6 in. to 1 in.
across, minutely scurfy, basal bracts 3, small; peduncles stout, -2 in. long; male flowers,
few, scattered, pedicillate, the anther single, sessile, perianth hyaline, of 4 pieces ; gall
flowers mostly pedicillate, the perianth gamophyllous, 5-cIeft, ovary smooth, style short,
lateral; fertile female flowers few, sessile, or nearly so, perianth gamophyllous, with 5
lanceolate teeth, style elongate, stigma obovate, achene ovoid, tuberculate.
VAR. MANOK (species Miq.). Bases of leaves narrowed; petioles 1-3 to 2 in. long.
The typical form occurs in South Bmmah and in the Malayan peninsula and Archipelago.
Tlie variety manok has been collected in Java by Zollinger, in Sumatra by Forbes,
and in Perak by Kmistler.
In the Leiden Herbarium several specimens of this species from Smnati-a are named
F. annulata, Bl var. llunnut, Miq., but the name does not appeal- to have been pubhshed. The
plants issued by Wallich as F. onvsta and firma were collected in Burmah and Penang. Wallich
distributed no plant under the name of F. glohisa, BI, but I can see nothing to distinguish
the typos of these two sjjecies of his from F. globosa, Bl. Miquel maintains F. onusta,
Wall, as a species, but he does not in his Enumeratio Fie. Gcront. Spec, accoimt for F. firma.
Wall. Kurz also keeps up F. onvsia. Wall, as a species ; but except that he describes
onvsta as a ti-ee {glohosa, BI. being a climber) and the receptacles as mnbonate, his description
suits glohosa, Bl. admirably. Powerful, eijiphytal, semiscandent species of Ficus, however,
often become ta-ees themselves by destroying the trees that originally gave them support;
and in the absence of any other difference I do not see why onusia should be kept up as a
species. Kurz's description of the fruit as mnbonate applies to the young receptacles.