42 DR. G. KING ON THE GENUS FICUS. 
kinds of so-called “stipules” in the genus. The most truly 
stipular of these appendages are those which occur in pairs at 
the origin of the leaves from the axis (one on each side). 
Examples of this kind are found in many of the scandent 
species, as for example in F. lasiocarpa, and in many of the 
receptacle-bearing branches in Covellia. The second kind of 
stipule (the so-called *intrapetiolar") is really a kind of leaf- 
scale occurring only in species with alternate leaves, which, 
completely embracing the leaf-bearing axis at its base, covers the 
young leaf and falls off as the latter becomes developed. This 
kind of stipule attains its highest development in the familiar 
F. elastica, and in that species it persists for an unusually long 
period. Stipules of the third kind are rarely seen in herbarium 
specimens; they are really leaf-scales, which are present in 
considerable numbers as coverings to the leaf-buds in the truly 
deciduous species (e. g. F. infectoria and F. Tjakela), as well as 
in those which, although not deciduous, make their growth only 
during clearly defined periods (e. g. F. bracteata). | 
The whole of the Indo-Malayan species of which I have seen 
living specimens contain milky juice except F. leucantatoma, and 
in that species the juice is of a pale buff colour. 
Having regard to the foregoing observations, I venture to 
propose the following amended character for the genus :— 
Ficus, Linn. 
Flowers unisexual (siaminiferous, pistiliferous, or gall), oF 
pseudo-hermaphrodite, rarely asexual ; collected in various ways 
on more or less globose ovoid or pyriform concave receptacles 
which are closed at the apex by numerous bracteoles. Male, 
gall, and fertile female flowers collected on the same receptacle ; 
or males and galls on a distinct set of receptacles, fertile females 
and neuters on another set; or males and galls on one set of 
receptacles and fertile females on a distinct set; flowers often 
mixed with bracteoles or hairs. Male flowers with 1, 2, or rarely 
8 exserted or included ovate or oblong stamens without rudimen- 
tary pistil (except in Paleomorphe), the perianth of 2 to 6 
distinct pieces, or gamophyllous and 2- to 6-partite, or absent. 
Fertile female fowers with a single pistil and without rudimentary 
stamens, the ovary l-celled with 1 pendulous ovule, the styie 
more or less lateral, longer than the ovary and surmounted by 
the clavate cylindric peltate or bifid stigma, the perianth of 2 to 
