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obovate-rotiindatc with a more oi- less deeply cordate or nan-owed base ; apes more or less
acuminate, sometimes deeply divided into 3 acute lobes; edges irregularly dentate; length
of blade from 5 to 8 in.; base S-uerved; lateral primary nerves about 3 or 4 pairs, rather
prominent; secondary nervea transverse. (The leaves of young shoots are often very large,
have palmate nervation, and are divided into as many as 5 to 7 lobes.) Upper surfaces
of leaves scabrid or sparsely hispid, especially on the nerves; lower surface (except the nerves
wliich are nearly glabrous) densely covered with short, usually white, sometimes reddishwhite
tomentum ; petioles 1'5 to 3 in., pubescent or glabrous ; stipules ovate-lanceolate,
pubescent at lirst, ultimately glabrous, from -3 to -5 in. long. Receptacles sessile, in pairs,
axillary, depressed-globose, rarely ovoid, slightly umboiiate; when young pubescent;
when ripe smooth, bright yellow in colour, and from -8 in. to -i in. across; basal
bracts 3, broadly ovate, blunt. Male flowers few, and only near the mouth of the receptacles
containing gall flowers, sessile, short, broad; the perianth of 3 broad, imbricated,
free pieces; stamens 1 or 2. Gall flowers mostly pedicellate; the perianth of 5 lanceolate
pieces; the ovary ovoid, smooth; style short, lateral; stigma infuiidibuliform. Fertile female
flowers sessile, or shortly pedicellate; the acheue obliquely ovoid, with a very tuberculate,
crustaceous epicarp; style lateral, as long as the acheue ; stigma cylindric.
Southern part of the Malayan Peninsula, and over the whole Archipelago, up to
elevations of 4,000 ft. Veiy common and variable.
I have little doubt that a tri-lobed form of this formed the basis of the Roxburghian
species F.pahnaia.
PLATE 1S6.—F. alha., Reinw. 1, fruiting-branch; 2, ovate-cordate leaf; 3, ovate-knceolate
leaf; 4, tri-lobed leaf; 5, vertical section of receptacle—of natural size; 6, diandrous
male flower; 7, monandi-ous male flower; 8 & 9, gall flowers; 10, fertile female flower—
all enlarged.
\72. FICUS FULVA, Behw. in Bl. Bijd. 478; Miq. in Ann. Mas. Lugd. Bai.
iii. 269, 290; Pi. Juiigk. 54; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat 1 pt. 2. 296; De
Vriese, PL Bur. chi Jurd de Ziede, fasic, 1.—Pogomlrophe flavidula, Miq,
Fl. Ind. Bat. Supp. 176, 435.—i?". Ucimoaratii, Link and Otto. Icon
rar. i, 6. tab. 31. ; Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 4.57.—F. mhorbicularis,
Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Supp. 173, 425.—J?. apiciUata, Miq. Zoll. Syst. Verz-
92, 98; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 296; Ann. Mas. Lugd. Bat iii. 269,
290.—P. cMorocarpa, Miq. Fl. Ii.d. Bat. i. pt. 2. 294.
A small umbrageous tree. Tlie yomig branches covercd with harsh dark brown
tomentum. Leaves crowded towards the apices of the branches, long-petiolate, membranous,
sub-rhomboid al, rotund, or obovate-rotund, rarely ovate-elliptic, sometimes sinuate or (in the
leaves of young plants) deeply 3-to 5-lobod; edges minutely and remotely dentate-serrate ;
apex acute or very shortly apiculate ; base rounded or more or less deeply cordate, 6- to 7-
nerved; upper surface scabrid, tomentose on the nerves; lower surface everywhere covered
with rather harsh tawny tomentum; lateral nerves 2 to 4 pairs; length of blade from
4 to 8 in ; petioles 1-5 to 3'5 in. long, pubescent; stipules single, convolute, broadly ovate,
with a truncate base and acute apex, externally covered with deciduous yellow hairs.
Receptacles crowded towards the apice-i of the branches, sessile or very shortly pedunculate,
in pairs in the axils of the leaves; from ovoid to globose; apex umbilicate; densely fuhoustomentose;
yellowish red when ripe and about -5 in. to -75 io. across; basal bracts 3, ovaterotund,
villose. Male flowers only near the mouth of tho receptacles with gall flowers,
sessile; the perianth of 3 large oblong pieces, much longer than the 2 oblong anthers;
filaments short, adnate. Gall flowers sessile or shortly pedicellate; the perianth of 5
narrowly lanceolate pieces; the ovary ovoid, shining, smooth; the style short, lateral;
stigma iiifundibuliform. Fertile female flowers sessile or pedicellate; the perianth like
that of the gall flowers; the achene obliquely ovoid, minutely tubcrculate; the pcricarp
hard and crustaceous.
Malayan Archipelago and Peninsula, Andaman Islands, and Burmah.
This is not veiy well represented in collections, although it is by no means an
uncommon tree in Western Java. A form of this with narrower leaves, smoother on
the upper surface than those of the type, was separated as a variety under the name
orlicularis by Miquel; but it scarcely deserves separation even as a variety. The plant
issued as Herb. Zoll. 651 was originally named F. fulva, Reinw., by Zollinger himself,
but Miquel made a species of it under the name apio-alata. Miquel hud previously given the
name apiculaia to a species collected by Wight (No. 1916 Eerh. Wight), which I have not
seen, but which, judging from Miquel's description (Lond. Jonrn. Bot. vi. 570), was a
Urosiigma. The reduction of F. cMorocarpa, Miq., to this apiculala was made by Miquel
himself. I have seen no specimen of it.
Receptacles containing male and gall flowers are by no means common. Count Solms
Laubach states {Hot. Zeii. for 1885, p. 516) that during his stay at Buitenzorg he had
never been able to find one with male flowers. Some specimens whicli I myself collected
in the Preanger Province of W. Java bear such receptacles, and from one of these the
figm'os given by me have been drawn. The forms of this species may be grouped into
two sets, as follows:—
FORMA TYPICA. Leaves rounded, more or less lobed. This is the form originally
named fulva by Reinwardt.
VAR. JIINOR. Leaves ovate or elliptic. Under this fall the forms described as
flavidula and cMorocarpa by Miquel.
PLATE 187.-i' . fulva, Reinw. fruiting-branch of forma typica; 2, leaf and receptacles
of var. minor; 3, stipules of No. 1—of natural size; 4, male diandrous flower;
5, gall flower; 6, ovary of the same, the perianth being removed; 7, 8, 9, fertile female
flowers at various Stages of gi-owth; 10, fertile achene: all enlarged.
FICUS HIRTA, VaM. Envm. ii. 201; Boxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 52«; Wiulit Icon 672;
Miq. in Lond. Jonrn. Bot. vii. 456; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 297.
tab. 18; Miq. in Am. Mns. Lugd. Bat. iii. 290; Benth. Fl Hong-Kong,
820; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 290.—i'. aetosa, Bl. Bijd. 477; Miq. in
Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 456; Hook. & Arn. Beechey. Voy. 216. t. 49.—
F. setífera, Steud.—J". idbiscifoUa, Champ. Hook. Journ. Bot. and Kew
Gard. Misceli, vi. 77.—F. Roxburghii, Miq ("non Wall.), Lond. Journ. Bot.
vii. 456.—P. triloba, Ham, Wall. Cat. 4.491A, B, C; Miq. in Ann. Mus.
Lugd, Bat, iii. 270, 290 ; Brandis Forest Flora, 423 ; Kurz For. Flora Brit.