
FICUS LEPICAT?PA, BL Bijd. 459 ; Miq. in. Ann. Mus. Liigd. Bai. iii. 283, 297.
— l\ vollcamnicefolia, Wall. Cat Covellìa didijmn, Miq. PI. Jungh. 65 ;
r i Ind. Biit. i. pt. 2. 327.— Covellia U-pirarpa, Miq . FI. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 328.
Covilliu volk'imeiicefo.i'i, Miq. in Lond. Joui-n. 13ot. vii. iCi. tab. 8.
A small tree ; the young branches swollen at the nodes, deeiduously pubescent. Leaves
petiolatc, thickly membranous, alternate or sub-opposite, obovate-obloug ; the apex shortly
and abruptly acuminate ; margin entire, rarely sub-repaud towards the apex ; the base
much narro\ved, often unequal, 5 nerved (2 of the nerves minute); primary lateral nerves
Tor 8 pairs, erect, rather straight; secondary nerves straight, parallel, prominent on tlio
lo^Tcr surface which is glabrous and minutely tixberculate ; upper siirface glabrous except the
midiib and nerves which are pubescent; length of blade 7 to 10 in. ; petioles -75 to 1-25 in. ;
stipules large, rather long persistent, ovate-lanceolate, scai-ious, -75 in. to 1 in. long. Receptacles
sessile, axillary, usually solitary, ellipsoid, sides sparsely and coarsely pubescent, with
u'lany white'warts and a row o£ large flat, often white-tipped, bracts below the umbilicus;
umbilical bracts numerous; basal bracts 3, ovate-acuminate, spreading. Male flowers
very few, near the mouth of the receptacles containing gall flowers, sessile, short, broad;
the perianth of 3 membranous, inflated pieces ; stamen 1, its filament adnate, stout, curved.
Gr ill flowers half-ovoid ; the style terminal ; stigma much dilated ; the perianth a pellucid sac
enveloping the whole pistil except the stigma. Fertile female flowers pedicellate ; the
perianth small, shorter than the stalk of the ovciry, garaophyllous, with minute irreg-ular
teeth - achene obliquely obovoiJ, minutely tiiberculate; the style lateral, elongate; stigma
livlindric.
Java, Sumatra, Perak,-^%' s Collecior, Nos. 1836, 1902, 2013.
In crevices of rocks, in the beds and by the sides of streams up to elevations of
3 .500 ft. Miquel describes the receptacles as sometimes long-p edune al ate and borne on
tubercles on the stem, but I have nowhere seen any specimen showing this arrangement, and
•Jlr H Ü Forbes, "who collected many examples of the plant in Java and Sumatra, and who
made notes and sketches at the time of collection, describes the receptacles as always axillary.
So also docs Mr. Kunstler, who collected it in Perak. Receptacles containing male flowers
are rare, and I had to examine a large number of receptacles before I found one. In
that receptado the males were but few in number, and lay quite close to the scales under
the mouth : in the same receptacle the gall flowers were young, and it is possible that
the half-ovoid shape which I have figured might have become modified with maturity.
Although receptacles containing true female flowers are very numerous, not many embryocontaining
achenes are to be met with, for a large proportion of the female flowers are
never fertilised. These unfertilised flowers difíer from the fertilised in having the pericarp
of the achene more membranous and slightly tubercular on the sm-facc ; in form the two
sorts are alike.
In Bolanische Zeüiim for 1885, at page 538, Count Solms Laubach mentions two
trees bearing the name kpiearpa in the Botanic Garden of Buitenzorg, namely, No. 5,
Oovellia lepicarpa, Miq. (the " Boekoe Boekoe " of Sumatra), with ycllo«v milk and
axillary receptacles, in which ho found only male and gall flowers ; and No. 6, Oovellia
lepicarpa, var. Bunjeng, with white milk and receptacles borne on the stem, in which he
foinid only fertile female flowers. I cannot reconcile my account of F. lopiearpa, Miq.
-with either Count Solms Laubach's No. 5 or 6. In F. l-picurpa, Miq., as I understand it,
OOVELLIA.
I find receptacles containing male flowers to be very scarce, but those containing fertile
female flowers very plentiful. The fertile female flowers which Couut Solms Laubach
(le taf. V. figs. 6, 7, 8) attiibutes, and no doubt correctly, to F. stictocarpa, Miq.,
agree in all particulars, except the hairs on the style, with those which I find in
F. Icpicii'pa, 5Iiq. The depressed globular figs of Count Solms Laubach's yellow-juiccd
F. lepicarpa (No. 5, " Boekoe Boekoe ") appear to me to be probably those of F. stictucarpa,
Miq. (F. leucantaloma, Poir.)
PLATE 1-50.—-f. lepicarpa, Miq. 1, branch with immature receptacles ; 3, branch with
matui-e receptacles ; 3, single, nearly mature, receptacle ; 4, vertical section of a rcceptacle ;
D, stipules—«/^ ofii'dural size ; 6, unexpanded male flower ; 7, anther—siJe view ; 8, anther—
fruniview; 9& 11, gall flowers; 10, fertile female flower : all enlarged.
1-13, Ficus LEUCANTATOJIA, Poiv. Etict/clop. Method. Suppl. ii. 654; Ami. Mus. Lugd.
Bat. iii. 283, 296.—J", venosa, "Willd. Hort. Berol. p. 36. t. 36 (not of Ait.) —
F. leufomu, Roem. et Sch. Syst. i. 561.—r. Icucopleura, Bl. Bijd. 443.—
F. rapiformis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 551 ; Wight's Icon 637; Miq. in Ann. Mus.
Lugd. Bat. iii. 282, 296.—-P. stictocarpa, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii.
'4!8i, 2^7.—Oovellia siictocarpa, Miq. PI. Jungh. 65; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2.
327. t. 23A.-J^. seplica, Rumph. Herb. Amb. iii. 153. t. 9Q.~F. radiata,
Dene, in N. Ann. Mus. iii. 494; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 284,
.— Coredia radiata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 328.—F. Oldhami,
Hance Advers. in Stirp. Crit. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 5 Ser. vol. 5. 242;
Maxim, in Bull, Acad. St. Petersb. xi, 334.—Govellia venosa, Miq. in
Lond, Journ. Bot. vii. 468; Fl, Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. •m.~Covcliia
leucopleura, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I.e. 326.— Covellia rapifr.iinis, Miq. in Lond.
Journ. Bot. vii. 464 ; FI. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 325.— ? Covellia grandi/olia,
Miq. ibid. Suppl. ^-'A.— Cyslocjyne leueosUeia, Gasp. Rich. 84.
A galbrous tree; the young branches thick, annulate. Leaves opposite or alternate,
sub-coriaceous, petiolate, ovate or elliptic, sometimes ovate-rotund ; the apex blunt or shortly
acuminate ; the edges entire ; base broad, rounded or emarginate, 3 to 5-nerved ; lateral
primary nerves 5 to 7 pairs, prominent and coloui-ed beneath as also are the minute but
very distinct reticulations; both sm'faces glabrous; length of blade 6 to 12 in.; petioles
•75 to 1-5 in.; stipules ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, fi-om 1-5 in. to 2 in. long, eaady
deciduous. Receptacles shortly pedunculate, axillary, in paii-s, depressed-globose, with about
10 to 12 vertical ridges and many wHte rough warts, otherwise nearly glabrous ; when
ripe about '75 in. across, umbilicus depressed; basal bracts 3, ovate-obtuse; peduncle '25 in.
long. Male flowers few, near the ostiole, sessile ; the penanth of 3 broad, much-imbricated,
membranous pieces; stamen 1, with an adnate, cui-ved filament. Gall flowers sessile or
pedunculate, with a gamophyllous, toothed, hyaline perianth ; the ovary rounded, smooth ;
the style short, lateral; the stigma dilated, cup-shaped. Fertile female flowers with a
short, gamophyllous, 2- to 3-toothed perianth wliich embraces the base of the pedicel of
the obliquely-ovoid, minutely-tubercular achene; the style longer than the achene,
lateral, bearing a few haii-s ; stigma davate.
Java and other of the Malayan islands, from the sea level up to 3,000 ft.
This species, although not an uncommon plant in the Malayan islands, is very poorly
represented in both the Dutch and English collections. It is sometimes cultivated in gardens