138 EUSYCE.
basal bracts; when ripe orange yellow aad about '3 in. across; peJuncles from '1 to '5 in.
long., villous, minutely braofceulate. Male, gall, and fertile feuiulc ilowcrs -with periantli of
4 lanceolate, elongate pieces ; anthers narrow, elong-ate, with short filaments ; gall ovary
narrowly ellipsoid; style short, tliiek, sub terminal; achene of fertile female flowers
ellips<'icl, style lateral, stigmas usually agglutinated to form an umboiiate disc.
Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago, up to elevations of 2,000 ft.
This plant comes very near to F. lanata, Bl., and both are in my opinion forms of reciirva,
Bl. F. hirsula, Wall, is quoted by Miquel as a synonym of F. viUoM, Bl. (No, 290 in^l«».
JJus. Lugd. Bat. 294), but I can fmd no trace of a F. hirsiita in Wall. Cat. The name
F. hirsuta, Wall., is also given by the same author as a synonj'ui under F. villoS'i, Bl. {Fl. Lid.
Bat i. pt. 3. 317), and a figure is given of it imder tab. 21A, but no Wallichian number is
quuted. The figure agrees with the figure of F. villosa, Bl. B. {on the same plate), with the
exception that the receptacles are pedunculate, whereas in the figure of vilhsa they are sessile.
PLVIE 172. F. villosa, Bl. A; branch showing leaves, the deciJuous stipules at thw
bases of tho leaves, and young receptacles. 1, under surface of half a leaf (the longer hairs
removed to show the reticulations); 2, twig showing fascicles of young receptacles;
3 a fascicle of receptacles, nearly mature ; 4, side view of a leceptaclo; 5, the 3 bracts on
the puduncle ; 6, apes of a receptacle; 7, stipules from the apex of a branch—«¿^ of natural
sue; 8, fertile female flower—10, tlie same expanded; 11, male flower with
2 aiitliers; 9, gall flower : all enlarged.
1.59. Ficus CRixiNEiivr.\, Miq. Fl. Ltd. Bat. Sappl. 175, 432.—J", hnujera, Wall. Cat.
4577.—P. grossineruis, Miq. MSi . in Herb. Lond. and Utr.
A scandent shrub, rooting from the stem and branches. The young branches, petioles
and nerves on the lower surface of the leaves covered with long, tawny, coarse, silky,
dedduous hairs. Loaves petiolate, coriaceous, ovate-elliptic or ovate-oblong; the apex
acuminate or shortly cuspidate ; edges entire and slightly revolute; base deeply cordate or
sub-sao-ittate, polmately 5- to 7-nerved; lateral primary nerves 5 or 6 pairs; intermediate
nerves parallel, slightly curvcd, rather prominent; the under surface tesselate-reticulate;
the midribs and nerves of adult leaves often with fine silky hairs; upper surface covered
with very minute, deciduous scales, otherwise glabrous; length of blade 5 to 10 in,; petioles
rather stoat, deciduously hirsute, scurfy, from -5 to l'2o in. long; stipules especially
prominent on the barren branchlet., 2 to each leaf, linear-lanoeolate, flaccid, almost
glabrous -7 to I'S in. long. Receptacles shortly pedunculate, solitary, or in pairs, axillary,
obovate-giohose, contracted towards the base and without basal bracts; apex slightly umbonate,
deciduously hairy, becoming smo-th, about -3 or -4 in. across; peduncles -2 to -Sin
iono- bracteate at the base. Male flowers unknown Fertile female flowers sub-sessile, or on
longi thin pedicels; the perianth of 4 distinct pieces, which completely envelope all parts
of tiie young pistil except the stigma; young ad.ene obliquely ovoid; the style short,
«ub-terminal; stigma large, lanceolate; ripe achene, male and gall flowers unknown.
Assam, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Malayan Peninsula, and Archipelago; (probably also
in Burmah); Mount Arfak in pew G u i n e a , — ( P . P. 951).
This apparently does not fruit freely, for the majority oi the specimens met with in
collections consist of leaves only.
PLATE 173.—I'. crmim.-via, Miq. The point of a young shoot with leaves and stipules.
B : adult loaf and niature rec.;ptaclc3. 1, apex cf receptacle; 2, base of ditto; 3, stipules—
all 'of natural size; 4, unexpanded fertile female flower; 5, achene (yoi
flower; 6, achene (young) li-om a pedicellate flower.
1 3 9
Qg) from a sub-sessile
Erect Shrubs or Trees.
160. FICUS DIVEESIFOLIA, Bl. Biß. 450; 3Iiq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii.
26S, 288; Miq. [suh Synwcia) in Lond. Joum. Bot. vii. 470. tab. 9. fig. B.;
Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2.328; Miq. PI. Jungh. Q1.—F. spathulata, Miq. Lond.
Journ. Bot. vii. 441 (excl. syn. F. retusa, Herb. Madi-. Wall. Cat. 4530). —
F. deltoidf-.a, Jack Malay. Miscell. vii, 71.—P. ovoidea, Jack Malay. Miiccll.
vii. 71 ; Wall. Cat. 4526,—/', siderozylifolia, Griff. Notulfe PL Dicot iv. 389.
t- .751. fig. 2.—F. lutescens, Desf. H. P. ed. iii. i^lZ.—Ei-ythrogyne fniracvns,
Visian. apud Caspar. liich. 86; Miq. in Lond. Jom-u. Bot. vii. 453.
A glabrous shrub or small tree, often epiphytal. The leaves coriaceous or sub-coriaceous,
petiolate to nearly sessile, minutely tuberculate beneath, for the most part deltoid or cuneateobovate,
much narrowed and glandular at the base; the apex broad, blunt, sometimes oblique,
rounded, or trmicate, occasionally unequally emarginate to bifid; the midi-ib bifm-cating
once or oftener, with a dark-coloured gland in one or more of the lower bifui'cations, the
edges entii-e;.or (but not often on the, same ¡^lant) elongate, narrowly obovate, oblanceolate,
oblong-lanceolate, or sub-rhomboidal; the apes blunt, rounded, or acute, with pinnate venation,
and with glands in the axils of 2 or 3 of the lower lateral nerves; length of blade 1 in.
to (in var. Kimstleri) 5 in.; breadth from -70 in. to (in var. Kunstleri) 4 in.; petioles
from -2 in. to -4 in.,long (I S in. to 3 in. long in var. Kunstleri)-, stipules linear-lanceolate
convolute, from '3 in. to -6 in. long. Receptacles axillaiy, solitary, or in pairs ; pedunculate,
depressed-globose to ovoid or pjriform, strongly unbonate at the apex, of a dull yellow or
reddish colom- and smooth when ripe, from -3 in. to -35 in. across; basal bracts 3, short
broad, spreading, pubemlous; peduncle from -2 in. to 1 in. long. Male flowers occupying the
upper half of the same receptacles as the galls, pedicellate; the perianth of 4 obovate, rather
iiTegular pieces; the stamens 2, lying face to face, longer than the perianth. Gall flowers
sessile or pe(^cellate; the perianth of -3 elongated and linear-lanceolate, or short, ovate, rather
fleshy pieces; the ovary globular and smooth or angular, rough, and crustaceons in texture;
the style short sub-terminal; the stigma wide, tubular. Fertile female flowers occupyin<'
sepai-ate receptacles; the ripe achene twi c as large as the gall achene, elongated-reniforni^
.sliining; the style lateral, elongate; the stigma with 2 long, narrow ai-ms; perianth of several
small, fleshy ovate-laiiceolate, fleshy, free pieces.
Malayan Peninsula and islands.
A widely-distributed and therefore a variable species; usually epiphytal, but often growing
on the ground. The majority of the individuals have leaves of the obovate-cuneate type, with
bifurcating mida-ib; and it is not often that one is met with having also elongated, oblanceolate
leaves with pinnate nervation. The occurrence of such dimorphous individuals was, no
doubt, the occasion of Blume's specific name diversifoUa. Blume's name was not published
until 1825, while Jack's two names, dolioidea and ovoidea, were published in 1S22. I retain
Blume's name for the species in preference to either of Jack's, because Blume's description
recognises the dimorphousaess of the plant, and covers the two forms which Jack raised to
. Bor. GAUD, CALC. VOL. I.