2ni.—i". umigera, Miq.
pt. 2. 318. t. 19.
. Zoll. Syst. Vevz. 92, :
A scandent shrub, often rooting from the stem. The young branches deoirluously
villose or pubescent, or sub-scabrid from minute adpressed deciduous hairs. Leayes subcoriaceous,
shortly petiolate, ovate elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or lanceolate, more or less
narrowed to the bluntish or shortly acuminate apex; edges entire, sometimes slightly
recurved; base broad, rounded, sub-truncate or eoiargiaate, sometimes narrowed or
slightly cordbite, 3- to 5-nerved (2 nerves being minute); lateral nerves 3 to 3 pairs;
intermediate nerves and reticulations very distinct; the whole of tbe lower surface {but
especially the midrib, nerves, and reticulations) either covered with short, stiff, brownish
hairs, or sparsely pilose, or entirely glabrous, but (even when glabrous) slightly rough
from the prominent reticulations; upper surface sab-scabrid from the presence of a fow
short, rough points, or smooth and glabrous except on the depressed midrib and nerves,
whicli are minutely and sparsely adpressed-pilose, or entirely glabrous everywhere (as in
some forms of var. ribesoidcs)-, length of blade 2-5 in. to 5 in.: petioles •25 in. to -5 in.
long, stout, adpressed pubescent, or glabrous and sub-scabrid; stipules broadly ovate
or lanceolate, glabrescent, about -25 in. Inng (in the barren shoots -4 in. long), lleceptacles
sessile or shortly pedunculate, in clusters of 4 to 10, on shoi-t, many-bracted, villose, tubercles
in the axils of the leaves, or single or in pairs and not on tubercles; depressed-globular,
constricted towards the base; the apical umbilicus sometimes apert and always surrounded
by a smooth anmilus; pubescent or glabrescent, becoming glabrous; when ripe yellowish
red, sometimes spotted with white, about -2 in. to '3 in. across; basal bracts 3, rather
large, ovate; peduncle, when present, glabrous, -15 in. long. Male flowers occupying
about the upper half of the receptacles of which the lower half is occupied by gall
flowers, diandrous, the anthers large, oblong, sub-sessile, placed face to face, the connective
forming a thick vertical ridge along the back; perianth of 4 broad, distinct pieces,
which are shorter than the anthers. Gall flowers, shortly pedicellate; the pcriauth of
4 lanceolate jneces; the achene obliquely ovoid, smooth, with short lateral style.
Perfect female flowers with perianth of 4 distinct, lanceolate pieces ; the achene sub-obovoid
or oblong; the style nearly terminal, short, flat, hyaline.
Malayan Peninsula and Ai-ohipelago, up to 1,500 ft. Widely distributed, and
correspondingly variable in its character.
Two forms appear worthy of separation as varieties:—
VAR. EIBESOIDES (species Wallich), Leaves lanceolate, sparsely pilose, glabrescent or
quite glabrous and shining; receptacles larger than in the tj-pe io.
across), in smaller fascicles, and sometimes pedunculate; the peduncles not
exceeding '15 in. length. This variety is common at Singapore and in
Perak.—JP*. adnaseens, Wall. Cat. No. 4o78B falls here.
VAB. UKNIGEKA. Receptacles flattened and depressed at the apex, and with the
umbilical annulus large; basal bracts large; leaves glabrescent, substrigose
beneath.—F. urniyera, Miq.
Miquel, in his final revision of the
and reduces to it his own species
at Leiden appear to me to differ
genus Ficus, keeps up F. strigosa, Bl., as a species,
But the type specimens of Blumo's strigosa
essential particular from the more glabrescent
EUSYCE.
forms of F. recurva, Bl. F. urnigera, Miq., on the other hand, although agreeing with recuna
as to leavfs, differs from the type in the remarkable m-ceolate, globose receptacles.
Under the manuscript names -perforata and siib-urccolala, I regret to say I distributed
two plants which on subsequent consideration 1 find must be reduced to this species.
PIATB im.—F. recurva, Bl. A . typical form. B and C: leaves and receptacles of var.
rihesoides. D : leaf and two receptacles of var. urnigera. 1, apex of receptacle of typical
rccurva, BL; 2, base of the same; 3, stipules; 4, side view of immature receptacle of
var, urnigera; 5, the same, mature—a^i of natural size; 6, nialo flower; 7, gall flower;
S, achene of gall flower; 9, 10, & 11, fertile female flowers : enlarged.
154. FICUS FOVEOLATA. Wall. Cat. 4493A to E ; Miq. in Ann. Mas. Lugd. Bat. iii.
Brandis For. Flora, 423.—1\ sp. Griff. Ic. PI. As. t. 561. ii.—
F. fuhigera, Wall. Cat. 4518.—-f. ? ludens, Wall. Cat, 4579 (young shoots
only).—Pogonotrophe reiiculata, puUgeru, verrucosa, and foveolata, Miq. Lond.
Journ. Bot. vii. 76 & 71.—F. nipponica, Fr. and Sav. Enum. PI, Jiip. i. 436;
ii. 491; Maxim, in Bull. Acad. St. Petersb, xi. 338.—i*. erecia, Miq. (noii
Thunb.) in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 200 ; iii. 294.—F. T/mnhergii, Maxim,
in Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. xi. 339.-1'. impressa, Benth. Fl. Hong-Kong,
828; Miq. in Ann. Mus, Lugd. Bat. iii. 294.—i", Wrighiii, Benth. I.e.
329.—.? F. Luducca, lloxb. (fide Wall, in Cat. 4493D.)
A scandent shrub. The young branches, the petioles andunder surfaces of the leaves, and the
young receptacles with their peduncles all more or less pubescent, sometimes sub-floccose, but
ultimately glabrous or nearly so. Leaves membranous, petiolate, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate,
ovate, or oblong, occasionally elliptic, wi thamore or less long, sometimes obliquely-acuminate
or acute, apex; edges entire; base rounded, sub-cordate, or slightly narrowed or sub-cuncate,
S-ncrved; lateral primary nerves 3 to 6 (rarely 7 or 8) pairs, prominent below, as are
also tlie secondary nerves and fine sub-areolar reticulations; under surface more or less
pubescent or sub-floccose, becoming glabrescent, or (in vars, nipponica and impressa] glabrous
from the first; upper surface glabroiis; length of blade 1-25 in. to 6 in. ; petioles -2 to -6 in.,
like the under surface of the leaves as to pubescence; stipules 2 to each leaf, from ovatelanceolate
to linear, villous externally, nearly "5 in. long. Receptacles sessile to shortly
pedunculate, soUtary, axillary, from globular to ovoid or obovoid, more or less umbonate at
all stages, and with 3 broadly ovate, acute, often reflexed, basal bracts, always more or less
puberulous, and often prominently verrucose or wrinkled; the globular forms, when ripe,
measuring -3 in. to -6 in. across; the ovoid about 1 in, long inid -75 in. broad, and the obovoid
measuring about 1-5 in. either way; peduncles -1 in. to -3 in. long. Male flowers in the
receiJtacles with the galls, pedicellate; the perianth of 4 distinct pieces; anthers 2 (8 in
some), elongate-ovate, pointed, placed face to face, the short filaments united below. Gal]
flowers pedicellate; the perianth of 4 free, linear pieces; the ovary obovoid, smooth; style
short; stigma dilated. Fertile fcmide flowers with perianth of 4 distinct leaves; achene
oblong-reniform, minutely papillose; the style sub-terminal, elongate.
Along the outer ranges of the Himalaya, from Chamba to Bhotan, at elevations of from
2,000 to 7,000 ft ; in the Khasi and Chittagong Hills; in Burmah; also in Japan, and probably
in North Chiiui; in Hong-Kong. Creeping on rocks or on steep ground, and in the latter
wise rooting from the branches; also climbing on trees.