Leavfe ovte, omi, w Mong, about twice us lon < / as broad i the edges
entire.
Reooptades pedimculate, leaves membranous . . . .
Eeceptades almost sessile, leaves coriaceous . . . .
Learn taneeotaie, tliree or four times as long as Iraad.
Leaves inequilateral, their apices suddenly aeumiuate.
Eeccpfaclos about 1 iuohiu diameter; smootli . . .
Heeeptacles -35 incli in diameter, verrucose, scabrid
202. F.
203. f.
204. i^.
205. F.
gtomrata.
Senrici.
CUrltei.
Arueiisis.
Leaves equilateral, gradually narrowed to the apes.
Leaves coriaceous ^
Leaves membranous; receptacles smooth, sub.globular;
tho apes; not depressed 206. J', i;
Ecceptaclea verrucose ; the apes much depressed . . . . 207. R 1
Scanclent.
193. Ficns mcEOCMPi, Wight MSS.—Pogmotrofhe mncroearpti, Miq., Wight' s Icon
1965.
A soandent shiub. Tbo young branches pnborulous, but ultimately glabrous. Leaves
membranous, long-petiolate, broadly ovato, sometimes inequilateral; the apex shortly
acuminate - edges entire; base rounded or very slightly cordate, 3- to S-nerved; primary
lateral nerves about 3 paii-s and, like the minute reticulations, rather promment; under
surface pubescent, subglabrons ; upper surface glabrous; length of blade about 5 m. ;
petioles 3 to S'3 in. long; stipules lanceolate, pubcrulous, or glabrous, about -85 m.
lon-r. Eeceptacles in fascicles from the naked stem far below the leaves globose,
pubescent, or nearly glabrous; when ripe spotted and from 1 in. to [ f i e W.ght) 2, m.
across; basal bracts absent; peduncles about -30 in. long, with several mmor bracts at
their base Male and gall flowers not found. Fertile female flowers sessile or pedicellate;
t h e perianth of C f ree pieces; ovary snb-ovoid; style sub-terminal, as long as the ovaiy,
hairy, straight, or curved; stigma bilobed.
N i l - i i i Hills, Southern India, at 5,000 ft.
Mr Gamble's specimens of this species ( i /rf. Prop. Gmlhle 11500) are the on y
examples that I have seen. They agree well with Wight's figure. The species evidently
approael.es F. ,jutta.ta, Wight, and is. possibly only a form of it. There are a few
external differences, and the female flowers differ somewhat from those of the only
receptaclc of ejuttut ^ , Wight which I have been able to get, and these females are m
such a young state that it is only from tho absence of male florets in the receptacle wrth
them that I conclude that they arc fertile. Until completer material of the two species
is obtained it is impossible to determino their relation to each other.
Miqnel (Av.n. Uuz. Lu,i. Bat. iii. 378) considered Wight's Icon 1965 as referable
to P. »?««, Eoxb. But the receptacles of vcjam are described by lloxborgli as
axillary and of the size of a nutmeg; whereas those of this plant are
but always in fascicles on the stem far below the leaf region, and often ( j i i Wight)
as large as an orange.
HEOMOEPHE. 1G7
PLATE 208 — i ' inaoroearfa, Wiglit,' leaf twig. 1,- par t ' of a- fascicle of receptacles
from the stem below the leaves; -2, apex, and 3, base of a rccoptacic; 4, stipuleeall
of natural size; 5, 6, & 7, pedicellate and sessile fertile female flowers; 8, perianth of
pedicellate flower; 9, ovary: enlarged.
194. FICDS GUTTATA, WigM. ^Covellia guttata, Wight le. 1966.
A scanclent shrub. I'he young branches shortly tomentose, ultimately becoming
glabrescent or glabrous. Leaves petiolate, sub-coriaceous, broadly ovate, with shortly
cuspidate apex, entire edges, and broad, rounded, or slightly cordate, 3- to 5-nerved base;
lateral primary nerves about 3 pairs; tho intermediate nerves and the minute reticulations
rather distinct on the under surface which is softly and minutely villous, sometimes in old
.t; upper surface with a few scattered, minute hairs, or glabrous; length of
blade 4 or 5 in. ; petioles -65 in. to 1 in. long and, Hke the leaves, villous or glabrescent;
stipules ovate-lanceolate, about "6 in. long, tomentose externally with glabrous edges.
Receptacles short-pedunclcd, in fascicles- from tubercles on the bracches or main stem;
basal bracts 3, broadly ovate ; when young slightly umbonate; when mature sub-globular,
pubescent, blotched, from. 1 in. to 1-25 in. in diameter. Fertile (?) female flowers sessile; the
perianth of G pieces ; style short, thick ; stigma much dilated, widely infundibuliform.
Nilgiri and Pulney Iliils in Southern India.
Male iiowers have not been found in the only receptacle that I have been able to get;
the flowers present appear to be all fertile female. The probable relation of this to
macrocarpa is discussed under that species.
This species is badly represented in collections. Besides a specimen from "Wight's
Herbarium, I have only seen two specimens of it (collected by Colonel Beddome and
Mr, J . Sykes Gamble), and they agree well with Wight' s figure; only one of them, however,
has a rccoptacle, and that is immature.
PLATE 209.—Apex of branch of F. guttata. 1, fasciclo of nearly mature receptacles
from the stem; 2, apex of receptacle; 3, base of same; 4, s t i p u l e s—o f natural size;
5, group of fertile (?) female flowers attached to a piece of the receptacle; 6, fertile female
flower showing the 6 perianth leaves, ovary, style, and stigma; 7 female flower, unexpauded :
all enlarged.
Arhoreoiis or Shrubby.
195. Ficus NODOSA, Teijsm. ami Binn. in Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind. xxix, 245; Miq. in .Ami.
Mils. Lugd. Bat. iii. 295.
A tree, 60 to 80 ft. high, with whitish smooth bark. Young parts puberulous, ultimately
all parts quite glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate or ovate-rotund with acuminate apex,
entire edges, and more or less deeply cordate, 5- , rarely 7-nerved base; lateral nerves 3 to
4 pairs, thin, prominent, and coloured on the under surface, as also are the rather distant,
sub-transverse, secondary nerves; reticulations minute, rather iudistinct; both sm-faces
glabrous ; length from 8 to 10 in. ; petioles 1 to 2 in. long; stipules broadly ovate, acute,
sericeous, about -4 in. long. Receptacles shortly pedunculate, on rather elongated, woody