figures are of nahiral sise. B.—Var. »fKo?-.—Fruiting-branch. 5, receptacle seen from below ;
6, ditto seen from above ; 7, stipules : all of natural size. 8, male flower ; 9 & 10, gall flowers ;
11, fertile female flower: enlarged.
64. FICUS PUBINERVIS, Bl. Biß. 452 ; Decnc in IY ^«72. Mus. iii. 496 ; Miq. in Ann.
liftcs. Bugd. Bat. iii. 2ÒQ.— Urost. Hasseltii, Jiiii. PI. Jungli. 46; Miq. Fl.
Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 341.
A tree, the young parts more or less decicluously pubescent ; leaves sub-coriaceous,
from ovate-elliptic to lanceolate, tapering to a blunt sliort point, edges entu-e, base nmcb
narrowed, 3-nerved ; glabrous when adult, except the midiibs, which are adpressedsenceous
below; main lateral uerves 5 to 7 pairs, nearly at right angles to the midrib, not
very prominent; length of blade 3 to 5 in. ; petioles scurfy when young, -2 to -5 in. long ;
stipules lanceolate, convolute, 1 in. to 1-5 in, long, outside densely adpressed-sericeous,
tawny, receptacles axillary, in paii-s or solitary, very shortly pedtmculate or sessile,
sub-globose, umbonate, shortly puberulous when lipe, red in colour, -35 in. to -5 in. across ;
pcduncles when present pubescent, about -1 in. long, bearing 3 minute free braeteoles
at theii- origin from the branch ; male flowers few and only near mouth of receptacle,
sessile, the perianth of 2 broadly ovate pieces larger than the single sub-sessile anther ;
gall and fertile female flowers alike when young, the perianth of 3 lanceolate pieces,
the style lateral, elongate, the stigma flat ; ripe fertile achene unknown.
Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and Timor—at elevations of from 3,000 to 4,000 ft.
VAK. TEYSMASNI.
Leaves coriaceous, obovate, suddenly and shortly acuminate, nerves very prominent.
Celebes,—Tetjsniunn.
The leaves in this variety approach those <
are exactly those of ty^vzoX pulinervis.
: F. vasculosa, Wall., but the roceptacles
TAB. 66.—Fruiting-branch of F. puUnervis, Bi., with separate figures to show base and
apex of a receptacle and stipules : all of natural size.
PLATE 84®.—1, male flower; 2, female flower (young) ; enlarged.
Series II.—Lenves suh-coviaceo'us, on long slender petioles, which
are often pointed to the blade.
65. FICUS RUJipnir, Bl. Bijd. 437 ; Derne in N. Ann. Mus. ili. 493 ; Miq. in Ann. Mus.
Bugd. Bat. iii. 287; Kurs For. Flora Brii. Bwm. ii. 448.—i'. eordifolia, Koxb.
(non Bl.) Fl. Ind. iii. 548; Brandis F.Flora, 416. t. 48; "Wight Ic.
640.—C/rosji. RumpMi, Miq, in Zoll. Syst. Verz. 90; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2.
ZZ2.—Urosí. cordifoìium, Miq. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. species, Bhutan,
Griff. Itin. Notes iii. n. 145. tab. 549.—ylrior conciliorum, Kumph. Herb.
Amb. iii. t. 91, 92 ; Wall. Cat. 4484, sheets A to G.
A large tree, ^ often epiphytal; all parts glabrous; leaves sub-coriaceous, upper surface
minutely tuberculate when dry, shining, long-pctiolate, broadly ovate, with acuminate apex •
edges entii-e, sub-undulate; base broad, but slightly narrowed towards the petiole, basal nerves
5, rarely 7 (2 being minute); lateral primary nerves 3 to 6 pairs, rather irregular, prominent
only in the young state; length of blade 4 to 6 in., of which the acuminate apex forma
only about one-sixth ; petioles 2-5 to 3-5 in.; stipules ovate-lanceolate, from -5 to 1 in. long ;
receptacles sessile, in paii-s in axils of leaves or of leaf scars, globular, smooth, when yomig
whitish with dark spots, when ripe neaiiy black; "5 in. across; basal bracts 3, rotund,
small; male flowers few, and only near mouth of receptacle, the perianth of 3 spathulato
pieces; anther single, on a filament about as long as itself; gall and fei-tile female flowers
with perianth of 3 lanceolate pieces ; the gall ovary smooth and usually obovoid; the fertile
achene minutely tuberculate, mucilaginous ; style in both elongate, stigma clavate.
At low elevations on the diier slopes of the mountain ranges in Northern, Western, and
Central India; in Burmah and the Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago.
Blume, in, his Bijdragen, published in 1825, gave the name F. Rumphii to the Arhor
conciliorum of Rnmphius, and Roxburgh gave the name F. eordifolia (Fl. Ind. iii. 548) to the
same plant, both authors quoting Rumphius' description and figures. But the name F. eordifolia
was applied by Bhime in the Bijdragen to a totally different tree, which is now known only by
some meagre specimens in Blume's herbai-iura at Leiden. Bhmie's name for this species must
therefore take the precedence of Roxburgh's; for Roxburgh's Fbra ladica, although written
early in the centmy (Roxburgh died in 1815), was not published in its entirety mrtil 1832.
The specimens of F. eordifolia, BI. at Leiden are sufficient to show that it was not a
Vrostigma. The species is now practically lost, but I shall give a iigui-e of it di-a-wn from
the material at Leiden.
F. Rum2}hiii5 allied to F. religiosa, but has leaves usually decidedly narrowed at the very
base, with a less suddenly acinninate and shortei'-tailed apex, and the globular receptacles
are not depressed at the apex.
PLATE 67B.—Fruiting-branch of F. Rumphii, Bl. 1, lateral view of receptacle; 2, base
of receptacle; 3, apex of receptacle; 4, vertical section thi'o\igh receptacle: of natural size.
PLATE 84'.—5, male flower; 6, sessile gall flower; 7, fertile female achene: enlarged.
66. Ficus EELIGIOSA, Binn. Hort. Cliff. 471; Sp. Plant, ed. 2, 1514; Bl. Biß. 436;
Roxi). Fl. Ind. iii. 547; Wight Ic. 1967; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 314; Brandis
For. Flora 415; Kurz For. Flora Brit. Burm. ii. 448.—i?". affmior, Griff.
Posth. Pap. pt. 4. 392. t. 553.—Urost. religiosum, Gasp. Ric. 82. tab. 7.
fig. 1 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 333, t. 23 ; Miq. in Lond. Jom-n.
Bot. vi. 563; Dalz. and Gibs, Fl. Bomb. 24A.~Urostig. affine, Miq. in Lond.
Jom-n. Bot. vi. 5H.—Arealii, Rheede Hort. Malab. i. 47. t. 27.—Fie.
Malabar, &c., Pluk. Phyt. 144. t. 178. fig. 2 ; Wall. Cat. 4487A, B, C, I),
and E.
A large, glabrous, usually epiphytal tree ; leaves coriaceous, upper sm-face shining, lower
minutely tuberciüate when dry, long-petiolate, ovate-rotund, narrowed upwards and the apex
produced into a linear-lanccolate tail, edges entii-e, undulate ; base broad, rounded to truncate,
sometimes a little naiTOwed at the miion with the petiole, occasionaUy emarginate, or in yonnt^
leaves even cordate, from 5- to 7- nerved; lateral primary nerves about 8 pairs, reticulations
fine, distmct; length of blade from 4-5 to 7 inches, of wliich the apical tail forms about a
third, breadth 3 to 4-5 in. ; petioles from 3 to 4 in. long, slender ; stipules minute ovate-acute •
receptacles in pairs, axillary, sessile, smooth, depressed spheroidal, when ripe dark pm-ple, -5 in!
across, with 3 broad, spreading, coriaceous basal bracts; male flowers very few, and only