smooth; stylo ratlier short, lateral; stigma large, discoid. Fertile female flowers miknoM-n.
Matm-e receptacles not seen.
Borneo,—Sij. Bocoari (Herb. Bece. No. 857). , , . .
The very densely fasciculate, glabrous, rceeptselos are distmetire of this species.
149 -F. cmitum, King. 1, apex of leafy branch; 2 & 3, fascicles of immature
receptacles from branches; 4, a single iimnatm-e receptacle; 5, apex of the same; 0, basal
bracts; 7 stipules-«« of natural n-.e; 8, young male flower ; 0, old male flower; 10 & 11,
gall flowers: enlarged.
Beceptacles in the aoclls of the leaves, or in fascicles from the
stem or larrjer branches; the leaves alternate or opposite.
138 Fious FISTDI.0S.I, Edn«. i,t Bl Biji. 470; Kurz Fl. Brit. Burmah ii.
4.M (in partj.^F. mt-opfosita, Miq. (s»i OomUia), PL Jungh. 66; Cbeix
des Plantes de Buitenzorg, tab. xy. ; F l Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 337 ; Suppl.
175, 435.—J". seminifoUa, Miq. in ZolL Syst. Verz. p. 83; Fl. Ind.
Bat' i pt 2 313.—i?. tenserensis, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii.
2 9 6 - C o r f - tuierc,data, Miq. in Zoll. Syst. Terz. 94, 99; Fl. Ind.
Bat. i. pt. 2. 32i.-K iifhullu. Wall. Cat. Ko, 4o43.-i'. nundlii,
King MSS.
\ small tree or shrub; the young shoots with a few stiff, adpressed hairs, especially
at the swollen annular nodes, otherwise glabrous. Leaves alternate or opposite, petiolate,
membranous or sub-eoriaceeus, ovate-lanceolate, obovate-lanceolate, oblong or elliptic,
sometimes inequilateral; the apex acute or shortly acuminate; the edges entire, rarely
remotelT sub-serrate; the base rounded or narrowed, sometimes unequal, 3-neiwed;
m-imary lateral nerrcs 4 to 7 pairs, spreading, rather prominent and eolom-ed beneath, as
L the secondary nerves and reticulations; both surfaces quite glabrous, the lower
minutely tuberculate; length of blade S'S to 7 and even 10 in.; petioles often slightly
uneoual on the same plant, •.? in. to I'O in. long; stipules ovate-lanceolate, scarieus, -5 to
•75 in lono- Receptacles pedunculate, axillary, in pairs or solitary, or m small fascicles
from tubereles on the larger branches below tbe leaves or from the mam stem; when young,
sometimes sub-pyriform; when mature, depressed-globose, glabrous, about -6 m, m diameter
ioccasionally nearly 1 in,), sometimes verrucose and eonstncted into a short stalk at
the base • umbilical scales numerous ; basal bracts 3, small, ovate-acute ; peduncle proper -S-i in,
to 1-5 in in the reeeptaeles borne on the stem. Male flowers few just under the ostiole,
the perianth of 2 or 3 concave, much imbricated pieces which tightly embrace the smgle
stamen; filament rather long, thick. Gall flowers without any evident penanth, ,„• with
1. very short, hyaline, gamophyllous perianth, which surrounds the base of the pedicel of
the ovary ovary ovmd, smooth; the style short, sub-termmal; stiga.a mfundibuliform.
Fertile female flowers sub-sessde or pedicellate; perianth as in the gall flowers; achene
obliquely obovoid, minutely tuberculate ; style as long as the achene, latera ; stigma eylmdrie.
The JIalayan Archipelago and Peninsula, Bui-mah, Chittagong, and Kbasi IIills.
This is a widely distributed species and, as might therefore be e-xpected, it presents
considerable variations in form. In some individuals the receptacles are all axillary and
shortly pedunculate; in others they are all in fascicles on the stem and older branches and
Ion.- pedunculate, and the latter as a rule contain only fertile female flowers. As regards the
coverino- of both the gall and the fertile female flowers, there is want of miiformity; some
being without any apparent perianth, while others have a very short, hyaline, gamophyllous
perianth which surrronnds the base of the stalk of the ovary. The leaves also present some
variety both in form and texture. The form which is very common about Singapore, and
which Wallieh issued as Ko. 4543 of his eatalogn.ie under the name of F. (Hphjjlla, has
hinceolato, suddenly acuminate leaves. The leaves of most of the forms are membranous in
textin-e; but in Sumatra and Western Java there occurs a form with small sub-eoriaceous
leaves, to which Miquel gave the name F. tsrujercmis: the leaves of this last are also
sometimes serrate.
I have carefully examined the types of all the species which I have reduced here, and
I have dissected about forty of their receptacles. I have compared these with licinwardt's
type specimen of F. fisiuhm in the Leiden Herbarium, and I see no reason for keeping any
one of them distinct from Eeinwardt's species.
PLATE 150.—F. fistidom, Ecinw. (stem-fruiting form). 1, apex of a leafy branch; 2, leaf
with much narrowed base (from another plant); 3, a fascicle of matm-e reccptacles; 4, apex of
receptacle; 5, stipules—all of natural size; 6, pedicellate fertile female flower, with short
gamophyllous perianth; 7, sub-sessile fertile female without a^jparent perianth; enlarrjed.
PL.ITE 151.—.F./SIMFOSFT, Reinw. (form with axillary receptaclcs). 1, apex of a fi-uitingbranch
of the form called F. diph^lta by Wallich ; 2, leaf of another form with more mmierous
prnnai-y lateral nerves and less acuminate apex ; 3, receptacles from stem below the leaves
—of naliiral size; 4 & 5, male flowers with the perianth opened out; 6, gall flower
with short gamophyllous perianth; 7 & 8, pedicellate gall flowers without apparent perianth -
9 & 10, fertile female flowers with perianth; 11 & 12, fertile female flowers without
perianth: all enlarged.
139. Ficus SJIJI0C.UIPA, Miq. Ann. Mas. Lugd Bat. iii. 233, 296—I^. pyrrhocarpa,
Km'2 For. Flora Brit. Burmah ii. 457 ; Brandis For. Flora, 424.—
P. tuberculata, Wall. Cat. 4639 (not of l ioxb. ) . - F . squamosa, Koxb,, and
F. lamimsa, Ilardw., lioxb. FL Ind. iii. 531.
A low, spreading shrub; the young branches and petioles densely but deciduously
hirsute. Leaves opposite, crowded, thickly membranous, petiolate, narrowly lanceolate or
oblanceolato, with acuminate apex and entire edges; the base very gradually narrowed
to the petiole, S-nerved; lateral primary nerves about 6 to 8 pairs; secondary nerves and
reticulations fine but distinct, and with the nricb-ib minutely strigose on the lower surface
when young, often becoming glabreseent when adult; the rest of the lower sin-face glabrous,
smooth, or scabridfrom numerous minute white tubercles (rarely hispid-puberulous) • upper
surface smooth (raa-ely seabrid) ; length of blade 3 in. to 9 in.; petioles -3 to -9 in. longstipules
persistent, scarieus, in pair-s, ovate-acuminate, glabrous, with a line of hairs alon.^
the midrib externally, from -3 to -6 in. long. Eeceptaelcs pedunculate, solitaiy in the axils
of leaves or of fallen leaves, or on short, leafless branches from the old wood, sub-globose
eonstncted at the base, with a prominent, large-bracted umbilicus, and a few glabrous
bracts n-regulai-ly scattered on tbeir sides; tomentose-hispid, verrucose, 8- or 10-i-ibbed,
brownisli when npe, from -o in. to 1 in. across; basal bracts 3, ti-iangular, deciduouspeduncle
-3 in. to -6 in. long, pubescent. Male flowers with a perianth of tin-ee or four
pieces the .single anther ovate or obovate. Gall perianth hyaline, closely applied to the
smooth ovmy; style short, lateral; stigma tubular. Fertile female flowers with perianth like
-the galls; the achene rhomboid, han-y, with very long, filamentous, haiiy style.
Asx , lor, CiKD. C,iic. Vol. I.