ITJSTCE.
Eecoptacles globular.
Sessile,-or Dearly so- . , .•.•.•.• 187. F. chariacea.
Shortly pedun dilate.
. Leaves siib-eorkiceous, narrowed to base "iBS. F. olemfolia.
Leaves membranous,
Eeosptacles spavsoly strigose 189. F. pmper.
Reoepfcaoles miniitely tuberoulate 190. F S'jronenm.
All three Muds of flowers in the same receptacle {as in Vrostigma).
Male flowers 3-or 3-ancli'ous 19i. F. nenmralk.
Mala Uowers i-audrous , ^ . . . !<'. hpidosa.
Scandent or Creeping Shrubs.
144. Ficus puiiiLi, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1. 1060; Kaempf. Am. Exot. 803. i. 804.—
F. -pnmitavar. a Tiiunl., Fl. Jap. 33 ; Maxim, in Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. xi.
3il.—.i'. sU2}ulata, TliuDb. (pi. stcrilis) ct F. pumila (pi. fertilis), Thunb.
Ficus 8; Sicb. Syn. PL OEcoii, No. 17 4 ; Miq. in Loud. Journ. Bot. vii.
439 ; ill Ann-. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 199. iii. ; in Journ. Bot. Neerl i.
243; Bentli. Fl. Hong-Kong, 328; Fl. Austr. vi. 171; Maxim. Bull. Acad.
St. Petersb. si. 342.—Tcnorea heteroplujlla, Gasp, Rich, '81.—Ulagiostigvia.
stipulata and pamz/a, Zuccarini, Abb. Bayr. Aliad. iy. 1. 154. t. 1. fig. 6—9 ;
Hance in Soem. Joui'u. Bot. iv. 54.—F. Hanciana, Maxim, in Bull. Acad.
St. Petersb. xi. 341.—F. erecta, auctor. pUu. sed non Tliuiib.
A scandent or creeping sln-ub with dimoi-pbous leaves, rooting freely from the stem and
the small-leaved barren branches. Fiuiting-branches erect or spreading, not rooting; while
young fulvous-pubescent, as are also the petioles and young receptacles ; leaves petiolate,
thickly membranous, ovate or ovate-elliptic, with sub-acute, bluntish apex, entire edges, and
cordate 7-nerved, equal-sided base ; lateral primary nei-ves 4 to 5 pairs, prominent on the lower
and depressed on the. upper am-face ; secondary nerves also prominent, and the reticulations
very strong, distinct, areolar on the under surface, wiiich is minutely pubescent ; upper surface
p-laÎDrous except the midiib and main nerves, which are pubescent; length of blade 2'5 to
3 in. ; petioles -i in. ; stipules 2 to each leaf, linear-lanceolate, fulvo-sericeou's externally.
Loaves of the stein and barren branches ovate-cordate and shghtly oblique at the base,
1 in. and under in length, with very short ('1 to -15 in. long) petioles. Receptacles borne
only on the spreading, large-leaved branches, pedunculate, solitary, axillary, pyiiform, with
the apex truncate; umbonate, with rather prominent \imbilicus; when full grown about
2 in. long and 1'2d in., across, and,of. a beautiful purple colour-; basal bracts 3; peduncle
thick, pubescent, -5 in. long.- JIale- flowers numerous towards the apex of the receptacles,
very lai-ge, on pedicels of varying length (some of them -5 in. longi ; perianth of 2 or 3
distinct pieces; anthers 2, nai-i-owly elongate, placed face to face, nearly sessile. Fein ale
flowers in the same perianth with the males, ban-en; the perianth of 4 or 5 distinct
pieces; achehe sub-globùlàr, smooth ; style lateral ;' stigma oblique, dilated. Fertile female
flowers unknown.
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Indigenous in Japan and China: frequently cultivated against walls and other
builcUngs in all parts of the plains of India. This species produces receptacles freely
in the 'Botanic Garden, Calcutta, where the rather untidy fruiting branches are allowed to
gi-ow freely. In most other Indian gardens these fruiting-branches are trimmed off,
and receptacles are therefore never seen. Considerable confusion has arisen • in thè
nomenclature of this plant from the dimorphism of its leaves. Its synonymy has been
very carefully disentangled by Maximowicz in an' excellent paper in vol. xi of the
Bulletin of the St. Petersburg Academy, and, in treating it, I have to a great extent
followed this author.
In tho Botarne Garasii, Calcutta, the perianth of the male Sowers consists inTariaHy
of two pieces. Japanese apociniens, however, have a S-leaved male perianth In
Calcutta the receptacles produced are all of one Idnd, containing males which, althou^^h of
enormous size, produce no good pollen, and galls which attain but small size and are
never attacked by insects. Fruiting specimens from the countries where the species is
indigenous are not common in collections, and I have not been able to obtain many
reccptacles from such for dissection; but the few which I have succeeded in o-otting ail
contained 3-androus male and gall jlowors. I have met no receptacle contaming fertile
female flowers.
P l ì t s 158.-?. ysmVa, Liim. A: fraiting-branch with a matm-e receptacle. Bbarren
branch. 1, apex of a receptacle; 2, vertical section showing arrangement of the
flowers; 3, stipules-«/»rf.mi 4, group of male flowers; 5, single male flower with
the stamens separated; 6, vertical section of 3-andi-ous male flower, showing the natural
po,sition of the stamens and perianth leaves; 7, undeveloped gall flower (i/ie aiovi an
-11 from specimens grmm m Cdeutta); 8, male flower, and 9, gall ilower-/™, Jopamec
spmmens: all enlarged. ^
145. Flocs Thwa i tki i , Miq. in Ann. Mus. L,gi. Bat. iii. 229, 2 9 4 . - J . iistid^
Thw. (iionBlume) Enum. PI. Ceylon, 2 6 6 . - « dim-sifinuis, îfiq. in
Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 441; Ann. Mus. Lngd. Bat. iii. 281, 294;
Thwaites' Enum. PI. Ceylon, 266.—J. slifdala, Moon (not of Tliunbo- )
Cat. Cejdon Plants, p. 74. "
A sbi-ub, with slender, creeping, root-emitting stem, and stout, spreading, sub-glabrous
non-rooting branches on which the receptacles are borne; the stem, when young, thinly
clothed with brown, rather soft, pubescence ; its leaves shortly petiolate, sub-coriacooiis,
polymorphous, from elliptic or ovate to 3-Iobed and almost hastate; the apei in all
forms obtuse, and the base emarginate or cordate, boldly 3-nerved, and often with
2 subsidiary nerves; the under sm-faces pale, with distinct, open, tesselate reticulations,
pubescent on the midrib and nerves; upper surfaces adpressed-pubescent, sub-seabrid •
length of blade -5 in. to '75 in, {according to Miquel to 1-5 in.) long; petioles about -1 in. ;
stipules 2 to each loaf, oYate-acumiiiate, seai-ious, sparsely pubescent, a little longer than
the petiole. Leaves of the receptacle-bearing brandies twice as laa-ge as those of the stem
and Its ban-en branches; elliptic or obovate, never lobod or hastate. Eeceptaeles axillary
™ l l y sohtaiy, smooth, globular, about -35 in. in diam., contracted at the base into a tbhl
stali about -1 m. long, at the junction of which with the peduncle proper are 3 broadly
ovate basal bi-acts; length of peduncle proper about -5 m. Male, gallf and fertile female
fcveis mixed over .0 parts of the same receptacle ; tho perianths of all of 2 or 3 short
bioad, obovate, loosely-attached pieces. Male flowers with 2 anthers which much exceed thé
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