204.—F. arnigcra, Miq.
pt. 2. 318. t. 19.
Zoll. Syst. Vcrz. 92, 98; Fl. Ind. Bat.
A scandent shrub, often rooting from the stem. The young branches deciduously
vil!o.se or pubpscent, or sub-scabrid from niinntc adpressed deciduous hairs. Leaves subcoriaceous,
shortly petiolate, ovate elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or lanceolate, more or less
narrowed to the bliintish or shortly acuminate apex; edges entire, somer.imes slightly
recurved • base broad, rounded, sub-truncate or emargiiiate, sometimes narrowed or
slia'htly cordate, 3- to 5-))erved {2 nerves being minute); lateral nerves 2 to 3 pairs;
intermediate nerves and reticulati(ms very distinct; the -whole of tbe lowei- surface (but
especially the midrib, nerves, and reticulations) either covered with short, stiff, brownish
hairs, or sparsely pilose, or entirely glabrous, but (even wlien glabrous) slightly rougli
from the prominent reticulations; upper surface sub-scabrid frura the presence nf a few
short, rougb points, or smooth and glabrous except on the depressed midrib and nerves,
which are minutely and sparsely ad pressed-pi lose, or entirely glabrous everywhere (as in
some forms of var. ribesoides); length of blade 2'5 in. to 5 in.: petioles -25 in. to -5 in.
lonf, stout, adpressed pubescent, or glabrous and sub-scabrid; stipules broadly ovale
or lanceolate, glabrescetit, about -25 in, long (in the barren shoots '4 in. long). Receptacles
sessile or shortly pedunculate, in clusters of 4 to 10, on short, many-bracted, villose, tubercles
in the axils of the leaves, or single or in pairs and not on tubercles; depi-essed-globular,
constricted towards the base; the apical umbilicus sometimes apert and always surrounded
b y a smooth annnlus; pubescent or glabrescent, becoming glabrous; when ripe yellowish
red sometimes spotted with white, about -2 in. to '3 in. across; basal bracts 3, rather
lartJ-e, 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 perianth of
4 lanceolate jneces; the achene obliquely ovoid, smooth, with short lateral style.
Perfect female flowers with perianth of 4 distinct, lanceolate pieces ; the achenc sub-obovoid
or oblong; the style nearly terminal, short, fiat, hyaline.
Malayan Peninsula and Ai-chipelago, up to 1,500 ft. "Widely distributed, and
correspondingly variable in its cliaracter.
Two forma appear worthy of separation as varieties:—
V.1R. EIBESOIDES (species Wallich). Leaves lanceolate, sparsely pili
quite glabrous and sliining; reccptacles larger tiian in the typo in.
across), in smaller fascicles, and sometimes pedunculate; the peduncles not
exceeding -lo in. length. This variety is common at Singapore and in
Perak.—i-'. adnascons, Wall. Cat. No. 4578B falls here.
UKKiGERA. lieceptaclcs flattened and depressed at the apex, and with the
umbilical annulus large; basal bracts large; leaves glabrescent, substrigose
beneath.—F. urniyera, Miq.
Jliquel, in his final revision of the genua Ficxis, keeps up F. striyosa, Bl., as a species,
and reduces to it his own species urnigera. But the typo specimens of Blume's SIHQO&U
at Leiden appear to me to differ in no essential particular from the more glabrescent
EUSYCE.
forms of i^. Bl. Miq., on the other hand, although agreeing with
! 1 differs f rom tbe type in the remarkable m-ceolate, globose receptacles.
I L . and I . ^ . t to say I d.tnbuted
two plants which on subsequent considération 1 find must be reduced to tins species
1 6 5 . - Î ' . BL A . typical B and C: leaves and recep acles of
r i u l L D: leaf and two receptacles of var. 1, ape. of receptacle of tj'p.ca
. 2 base of the same; 3, stipules; 4, side view o£ immature receptacle of
the L e , matu;.-.. -a l e ilower; 7, gall flower;
8, achene of gall flower ; 9, 10, & U, fertile female flowers : enUrgei.
154. Ficus FOVEOL.TA, Tf.;;. 44g3AtoE; Mn ^Mu . I M ^
Brandi. For. Flora, 423.-Î'. sp. Gnff. Ic. PI. As. t. 561. u . -
F. pubigera, Wall. Cat. 4518. -1' . hdens, Wall. Cat. 4579 (young shoots
only) —Fogonotrophe reticulata, pubigera, verrucosa, and foveolata, Miq. Lond.
Journ. Bot. vii. 76 & 77. -^- . nippcnica, Fr. and Sav. Enum. PI. Jup. i. 436 ;
ii 491- Maxim, in Bull. Acad. St. Petersb, xi. 333.-Î' . erccla, Miq. (non
Thunb.) in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 200 ; iii. 2 9 4 . -F. Tlmnbcrgii, Maxim,
in Bull Acad. St. Petersb. xi. 339. -^. impressa, Benth. Fl. H-ng-Kong,
328- Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 294.-Î'. Wrightii, Benth. I.e.
3 2 9 . ' — F . Luducca, Roxb. {fid^ Wall, in Cat. 4493D.)
Ascat.dentsbrub. The youngbrancbes, the petioles andunder surfaces of the leaves, and the
Ascanaen y peduncles all more or less pubescent, sometimes sub-floccose, but
young recep ^ ^ ^ ^
ultimately glabrous or near y s sometimes obliquely-acuminate
..r acute, apes, eug^» « , r or 81 laits, promment below, as are
„ - J e r . .ace .ore or le.
X c e n t r l l c l e , b « n g glabrescent, or (m var. and gl . rou.
i r . e s and with 3 b roaZ; ovate, acute, often reiexed, basal bract., a ways n>ore or less
l e d , and often prominently verrucose or ™ k l e d ; the g obular
„easuring -3 in. to -6 in. across ; the OToid about 1 in. long and -75 .„. broad, and the oboTO.d
L n , ™ ; about 1.5 in. either way; peduncles -, m to -3 in. long. f3 t
r c c e p t a c i with the galls, pedicellate; the perianth ot 4 d.stmct preoes; anthe s 2 (3 n
.omo), elongate-ovate, pointed, placed face to face, the short filamen s umted below. Gall
flower-s pedicellate; the perianth of 4 free, linear pieces; the ovary obo«,id, smooth; style
short; stigma dilated. Fertile female flowers with perianth ot 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 Chitt»gong Hills ; in Burmah ; also in Japan, and probably
in North Ciliina ; in Hong-Kong. Creeping on rocks or on steep ground, and m the latter
Ciise rooting from the brandies ; also climbing on trees.