1 3 6 EUSYCE.
. As a constant form may be separated off
VAR. ADRIIEREIFS—with the leaves smaller than tho type, and the receptacles sessile.—
Pogon. adhcerens, Miq.
Eastern Himalaya, Cliittagong, Burniah, Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago, up to
elevations of 2,500 h.
Widely diffused and variable as to size, but pretty constant in other characters. I have
no doubt, after examining the type specimens in the Leiden herbarium, that Miquel's Pogonoirophe
riuvia (of which his published description is very meagre) is the same as the plant
named F. ramentacea by Roxburgh, of which an excellent coloared drawing (prepared under
llosburgh's supervision) exists in the Calcutta herbarium. I believe this to have been also
the late Mr. Kurz's opinion, although be did not publish it; his Forest Flora of Burviah
utifortunately -jiving no synonyms. The plant named adherens by Miqiiol has the receptacles
not constricted into stalks at the base. It ia the same as F. microearpa of Elumo; but the
name nncrocarpa having been pre-occupied, Steudel altered it to leptocarpa, publishing,
however, no description.
PL-VTIÜ 169. F. ramentacea Roxb. Two branches with nearly matm'e receptacles.
1 mature receptacles: 3, fascicle of mature receptacles; 3, apex of receptacle; 4, base
o£ ditto; 5, stipules—a^Z of natural size ; 6, male flower with 2 stamens and perianth of
y pieces; 7, gall flower from the same receptacle; 8, achene of perfect female flower;
9, perfect female flower with a perianth from another receptacle. Nos. 6 /08 are enlarged.
j j 1 and 2 at the lower left-hand earner have heen printed hij mistake and are to be
deleted.
156. FICCJS AEASEOSA, nov. spec.
Scandcnt. The young branches, petioles, and under surface of the leaves, the receptacles
and tlieir peduncles, densely covered with soft grey, araneoid tomentum. Leaves thinly
coriaceous, shortly petiolate, narrowly ovate or ovate-lanceolate; their apices shortly and
bluntly cuspidate; edges entii-e; base rounded or sub-cuneate, 3-uerved; the lower surface
densely covered with flocculent, pale grey tomentum; upper surface glabrous ; length of
blade 2-6 to 3-5 inches; pedole -35 iu. to '75 in. long ; stipuks ovate, convolute, flocculent
externally, glabrous internally, 'So in. long. Receptacles shortly pedunculate, axillary, in
pairs or in fascicles of 3 to T; when young pyriform, with a prominent umbilicus; base
ebracteate, densely flocculent (ripe fruit unknown) ; peduncles flocculent like the
receptacles, about -1 in. long, with several small, glabrous bracts at their bases. Male
flowers (occupying the upper part of the same receptacles as the gall flowers, sessile, the
perianth of 4 bioad, distinct pieces ; stamens 2 ; the anthers nan-ow, elongate, sagittate at
the base. Gall flowers with peria.nth o£ 4 very broad pieces ; the ovary obliquely and
narrowly ovoid; the style short, terminal. Fertile female flowers with perianth of 4 broad,
blunt pieces; young achene wiih a sub-termiiial, rather short, thick style; ripe aehene
unknown.
Malayan Peninsula ; at Laroot, in the province of Perak. Collected by Mr. H. H.
K u n s t l e r . — C o l l e c t o r , Nos. 3565 and 6038. At once recognisable by its flocculent,
ai'aneoid clothing.
PLATE 170.—Fruiting-branch of F. araneosa, King, with immatm-e receptacles. 1, side
view of a young receptacre ; 2, apex of the same; 3, bracts of base of peduncle; 4, stipule—
all of natural size; 5, male flower; 6, gall flower—unopened ¡I, ovary of gall flower; 8, perianth
oi'fertile female flower; 9, achene (young) of fertile feaiale flov/er : enlarged.
157. Ficus LANATA, Bl. Biß. 441 ; .
Mus. Lugd. Bat, iii. 294.
, Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. pt. 2. 317; Miq. in A^in.
A scandent shrub. The young branches, petioles, and under surface of the leaves softly
fulvous-villose. Leaves coriaceous, rather Iong-petiolate, lanceolate, rarely ovate-lanceolate,
ficuminate, with entire edges which are revolute towards the rounded, emarginate, or rarely
slightly cordate, 3 nerved base; lateral primary nerves 3 or 4 pairs, prominent below, depressed
above; intermediate nerves transverse ; lower surface with numerous small, dark tubercles and
densely covered with long, soft, fulvous hairs ; upper surface sub-rugose, glabrous, except
the midrib and larger nerves which are tuberculate and minutely, but deciduously, hispid;
length of blade 2 5 to 4 in.; petioles '6 to 1'2 in. long ; deciduously villose, scabrid; stipules
ovate-lanceolate, glabrous internally, villous externally, about-5 iu. long, very deciduous.
Receptacles pedunculate, in pairs or fascicles from bracteolate, axillary tubercles; depressedglobular,
verrucose, and occasionally with a few subulate bracts scattered along theii- sides,
glabrous; basal bracts none; when ripe orange red with white spots, about -2 in. across;
pedicels glabrous, from •! to -25 in. long. Male, gall, and fertile female flowers as iu
recurva, Bl.
Java, climbing on trunks of trees at elevations of fi'om 2,500 to 5,000 ft.
Allied to-F. villosa, Bl., but differing in its proportionately longer petioles and shorter
leaves, and in its glabrous, smaller receptacles. This and F. villosa, Bl., differ fronr
F. recurva in externals only, the flowers of both being the same in structure as those of
F. recurva, Bl. Both are, I believe, mere varieties of that species, and I keep them distinct
only as a matter of convenience.
PLATE 171.—A: branch of F. lanata, Blume, with mature receptaclcs. B: branch of a more
shaggy form. C : leaf and receptacles of form with ovate-lanceolate leaves. 1, stipules—a^/
of natural size; 2, perianth of male flower ; 3, anthers of the same; 4, fertile female flower:
158. Ficus VILLOSA, Bl. Bijd. 441; Miq^. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii, 451; Fl. Ind.
Bat. i. pi. 2. 317; /ai. 2 lB; Ann. JUUS. Lund. Bat. iii. 294.—i'. dives,
Miq. Choix de Plantes de Buitenz. t. 12.—"^'. /nrsvta, Wall," Miq.
Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. tab. 21A.—i". ohtecta, Wall. Cat. 4505.—
? F. barbata, Wall. Cat. 4576.
A scandent shrub. The young branches, receptacles, peduncles, petioles and under
surface of the leaves fulvous-villose. Leaves coriaceous, petiolate, oblong-ovate or ovatelanceolate,
acuminate, with entire, recurved edges, and rounded, emarginate, or slightly
cordate, 3- to .5-nerved base; lateral primary nerves about 5 or 6 pairs, prominent below,
depressed above; intermediate nerves transverse ; lower surface densely fulvous-rillose; upper
sui-face sub-rugose or sniooth, except the midrib and nerves which are minutely hirsute;
length 5 to 7'5 in.; petioles -o to 1 in., villous; stipules, 2 from base of each leaf, large,
broadly oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, from -75 to 1-75 in. long., caducous. Receptacles shortly
pedunculate, in fascicles, from short axillary tubercles, ovoid, umbonate, villous, without