This is ia most respects a miniatm-e of F. subulata, Bl., and 1 have great doubt
about the propriety of separating it specifically from that plant. Typical suhulala,
BL, occiu-s both as an epiphytic climber and as a shrub growing in soil; it is not
found north of Cliittagong. This species, on the other hand, is not found so fsu- south as
Chittagong, and is usually a small tree growing in soil; but it is occasionally epiphji-tal.
I think on the "whole this may be merely a northern form of F. sabulata, 131. The
tj'pe specimens of F. salicifoLia, Miq., collectcd by Jenkins in the Eastern Himalaya are at
Kcw, and they differ in no rcspect from specimens in Herb. lud. Or. Hook. iil. and
Thorns, issued as F. caudata, Wall., wbich form the basis of Miquel's more i-ocently described
F. Sikkimensis. The latter name, however, must be retained for this plant, that of F.
salicifolia being pre-occupied by a species of Vahl. This plant also comes near to
F. euspidaia, Reinw.
PLATE 113.—F. Sikkimensis, Miq. Two fruiting-twigs. 1, apex of receptacle; 2, base
of the same; 3, bracts at base of peduncle; 4, stipules—a?/ of nahiral size; 6, male flower
with 3-loaved perianth and 1 stamen; 7, gall ilower from the same receptacle as the male
flower; 8, perianth of fertile female flower; 9, fertile achene: all enlarged.
lOi. Ficus AMPELAS, Biimi. Fl. Lid. 226 {Excl. S/jn. Bheedc).—F. ampelas,
Lamk., BI. Bijd. 473; Miq. in Lend. Journ. Bot. vii. 428; Zoll. Syst.
Verz. 93; FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2 303; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii.
272, 292.—jJo/iVmo, Lamk. ? BL Bijd. 472.—.i'. raUcaulis, Decais. if.
Ann. Mus. ui. 496.—i'. handana, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 301.—
F. javensis, Miq. Lond. Jom-n. Bot. vii. 232 partly (Jide Miquel).—J'.
greioicefoUa, BL Bijd. 475 (in part); Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 306, and
in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 273, 292 vin part).
A small tree, often epiphytal and scandent, all parts rough and harsh. Leaves of
a hard brittle texture, shortly petiolate, variable in shape, unequal sided, narrowly ovateelliptic
or lanceolate to oblauceolate; apex acute or rather bluntly acuminate; edges
sub-entire, serrate or crenate in the upper three-fourths, entire at the narrowed, unequal,
3.nerved, acute or obtuse base; from 2-5 to 3 in. long; lateral nerves 4 to 6 pairs, rather
prominent below and like the midi-ib very shortly hispid on both surfaces; the rest
of the lower surface pale and dull, tubercalate, scabroas but not hispid when old; upper
sm-face shortly hispid when young, ultimately glabrous, shining, hard and harsh, subscabrid;
petioles -2 in. long; stipules subulate-lanceolate, -25 in. long. Receptacles shortly
pedunculate, axillary, in pairs, sometimes solitary or in fascicles, globose, mammillate
when young, with wide, occasionally apert umbilicus, '15 to -2 in. across, densely covered
•with small harsh papilla? and with very short hispid hairs, with occasionally 1 or 2
ven-ucifoi-m bracts on the sides, or near the base, or along the peduncles; peduncles liispid,
from •! to '2 in. long. Fertile female flowers sessile; perianth of 4 pieces; achene on a
flattened stalk; style lateral, much elongate; stigma liooked. Male and gall flowers not
seen.
Widely distributed in the Malayan Archipelago, but appai-ently absent from the
Peninsula.
Rather variable as to shape of leaf and as to the cutting of the edges, but
singularly unvarying as to texture and sm-faces of the leaves, which are of a dark
colour when dij and shining and hard to the touch above, even after all the hairs
have disai^peared. The lower sm-face is pale, dull, minutely papillose and scabrous.
Perfect female flowers occur in every receptacle, but I have never been able to find
male or gall flowers in any receptacles of any of the forms that fall under this. On
the otlier hand I have never been able to find perfect female flowers in any receptacle
of F. asperior, Miq. In that species only male flowers and gall flowers have, ever been
seen by me. The leaves of the plants known as ampdas, BL, and asperior agree as to
textm-e, and they differ but little in shiipe. The leaves of ampelas aa-e, however, entire,
and those of asperior are coarsely serrate. But this is a very slight difference, and I
believe it not unlikely that asperior may be really the male, and amfdas the female,' of one
and the same species. Observations in the field are requii-ed to settle this, and in the
meantime it may be convenient to keep up the species.
PLATE 114.—Fruiting-branch of F. ampelas, Bui-m. 1, apex of receptacle; 2, base of
ditto; 3, stipules \~of natural size; 4, perfect female flower:
105. FICUS UIIBONATA, Boinw. in Bl.
Lugd. Bat. iii. 207.— Covellia
454 [not of Wall), Miq. in Am. Mus.
Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 323.
A shrub, the young branches densely adpressed-pilose, rather scabrid. Leaves alternate
or opposite, petiolate, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, oblong or oblanceolate, inequilateral: the
apex shortly acummate; edges sub-crenate, undulate towards the apex, entire towards the
slightly narrowed, unequal, 3- to 4-nerved base; primary lateral nerves about 7 pairs; under
surface with the reticulations distinct, minutely tuberculate, adpressed-pilose, especially on the
midi-ib and nerves,'sub-scabrid ; upper surface sparsely adpressed-pilose; length of blade
about 3-5 in.; petiole adpressed-pilose, -4 in.; stipules lanceolate, nearly glabrous, -4 in lonff
Receptacles shortly pedunculate, axillary, depressed-globose, adpressed-pilose scabrid -6 in
across; basal bracts none; peduncle -1 in. long. Male flowers pedicellate; the perianth of
3 broadly ovate distinct pieces; stamen 1, nearly sessile. Gall flower with a gamophyllous
perianth, 3-cleft at the mouth ; ovaiy smooth, ovoid; style short, thick, lateral; stigma d^ated
Fertile female flowers unknown. °
Moluccas,—iJernVse, Beccari.
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PLATE U SA. - ? umlonaia. Eeinw., branch with mafare receptacle,. 1, «pex cf a
receptacle; 2, base ef the same; 8, stipules-»« of natural si.e; 4, n,ale flower in bud •
o, the same expanded; 6, gall flower: cn/arsei.
106. Rons But iii. „asperata, Eexb.
(non Vahl.), PI Ind. in. 555; Wight's Icon 664,
A tree Boxbnrgh), the yonng shoots scabroas. Leaves petiolate, membranons, oblon.
orelhpt o the apex acnmrnate; the edges coarsely sinnate-serrate; the h i e slightly narrowed
a s are abo the rather straight connecting nerves; nnder snrface scabrid and wi t h a few shor
s ifl h a i i . ; npper sm-face scabrid rngose; length of blade 4 to 6 in. ; petiole-35 in I w d
St,pales lanceolate, -Sin. long, fngaceons. Eeceptacles pednncnlate', f n pairs, a : ^ ^ "
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