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As a constant form may be separated off
VAK. ADN^RESS—with the leaves smaller than the type, and the receptacles sessile —
Pogon. adhcerens, Miq.
Eastern Himalaya, Chittagong, Burmah, Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago, up to
elevations of 2,500 £c.
Widely diffascd 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 Pogonoin.
phe Tuiiia (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
Roxburgh's supervision) exists in the Calcutta herbarium. I believe this to have been also
the late Mr. Kurz's opinion, although he did not publish it; his Forat Flora of Burmah
unfortunately giving no synonyms. The plant named adhcsnns by Miqucl has the receptacles
not constricted into stalks at the base. It is the same as F. microcarpa of Blume; but the
name microcarpa having been pre-occujjied, Steudel altered it to leptocarpa, publishing,
liDwever, no description.
PLATE 169.—F. ramentacea Roxb. Two branches with nearly mature receptacles.
1, mature receptacles: 2, fascicle of mature receptacles; 3, apex of receptacle; 4, base
of ditto; 5, stipules—aZ/ 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. Q io S are enlarged.
N.B.—Figs. 1 aiid 2 at the lower left-hand corner have been printed by mistake and are to be
deleted.
156. FICUS AEANEOSA, UOV. SpCC.
Scandent. The young branches, petioles, and under sm-face of the leaves, the receptacles
and their 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 entire; base rounded or sub-cuneate, 3-nerved; the lower surface
ilensely covered with flocculent, pale gi-ey tomentum; upper surface glabrous ; length of
blade 2-5 to 3-5 inches; pedole -35 in. to 'To in. long ; stipules ovate, convolute, flocculent
cxternallj'', glabrous internally, •25 in. long. Receptacles shortly pedunculate, axillary, in
pairs or in fascicles of 3 to 7; 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. Miile
flowers (occupying the upper part of the same receptacles as the gall flowers, sessile, the
perianth of 4 broad, distinct pieces ; stamens 2; the anthers naiTow, elongate, sagittate at
the base. Gall flowers with perianth of 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 with a sub-terminal, rather short, thick style; ripe achene
unknown.
Malayan Peninsula; at Laroot, in the province of Pcrak. Collected by Mr. H. H.
Künstler.—King's CoUectory Nos. 3565 and öO^-JS. At once recognisable by its flucculent,
araneoid clothing.
PLATE 170.—Fruiting-branch of F. araneosa, King, with immature receptacles. 1, side
view of a young receptacle ; 2, apex of the same; 3, bracts of base of pedunch;; 4, stipule—
all of natural size; 5, male flower ; 6, gall flower—unopened; 7, ovary of gall flower; 8, perianth
of fertile female flower; 9, achene (young) of fertile female flov/er : mlarged.
FICUS L-VNATA, Bl. Bijd. 441 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat.
Mus. Lvgd. Bat. Iii. 294.
. pt. 2. 3 1 7 ; Miq. in Ann.
A scandent shrub. The young branches, petioles, and under surface of the leaves softly
fulvous-villose. Leaves coriaceous, rather long-petiolate, lanceolate, rart-ly ovate-lanceolate,
iicuminate, 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 transvei'se ; 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 12 in. long ; deciduously villose, acabrid; stipules
ovate-lanceolate, glabrous internally, villous externally, about-5 in. long, very deciduous.
Receptacles peduncuhitc, in pairs or fascsicles from bractcolate, axillary tubercles; depressedglobular,
verrucose, and occasionally with a few subulate bracts scattered along their sides,
glabrous; basal bracts none; when ripe orange red with white spots, about -3 in. across;
pedicels glabrous, from -1 to -25 in. long. Male, gall, and fertile female flowers as in
reeurva, Bl.
Java, climbing on trunks of trees at elevations of from 2,500 to 5,000 ft.
Allied to F. i)illosa, BL, but difiering in its proportionately longer petioles and shorter
leaves, and in its glabrous, smaller receptacles. This and F. villosa, Bl., differ from
F. reeurva in externals only, the flowers of both being the same in structure as those of
F. reeurva, BL Both are, I believe, mere varieties of that spccies, and I keep them distinct
only as a matter of convenience.
PLATE 171.—A: branch of F. lanata, Blume, with mature receptacles. B; branch of a more
shaggy form. C: leaf and receptacles of form with ovate-lanceolate leaves. 1, stipules—all
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 Loud. Journ. Bot. vii. 451; Fl. Ind.
Bat. i. pt.2. 317; iab.2lB-, Ann. AJvs. Lugd. Bat. iii, 294.—d i v e s ,
Miq. Choix de Plantes de Buitenz. t. 12.—"J", hirsuta, Wall.," Miq.
FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. tab. 21A.—J", ohteeta, "Wall. Cat. 4505.—
? F. barbaia, 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-villose; upper
surface sub-rugose or smooth, except the midrib and nerves which are minutely hirsute;
length 5 to 7'5 in.; petioles -5 to 1 in., villous; stipules, 2 f rom 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, nmbonate, villous, without
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