IOF MT. KINABALU AND BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. 137 
Ficus INDICA, Linn, Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1514. 
Usakan Bay, overhanging the sea on a sandstone spur. March, 4329. 
Distrib. Common all over the Malay and Indian region, 
“ Tree, 13 m., receptacles yellow." The common Malay Peninsula form 
is not this, but the near var. Gelderi. This form appears common in the 
Archipelago. 
Ficus GIBBOSA, Blume, var. TYPICA, King, Ficus Spec. 5, pl. 2. 1. T. 
General about Tenom and Melalap, 700—1000', in sec. forest. Jan. 2841. 
Bridle-path to Melalap, 1000. 2852. 
Distrib. Common all over the Malayan region. 
“A magnificent tree, 38 m., with drooping branches and the habit of 
* Waringin ? (Ficus Benjamina, Roxb.). Fruit yellow, mature reddish.” 
*Fiıcus GiBBSUE, Ridley, sp. nov. 
Arbor cortice sicco rufescente. Folia glabra, alterna, tenuiter coriacea, 
elliptica, longe acute-cuspidata, cuspide 1 em. longo, basibus breviter angus- 
tatis, nervis subhorizontalibus paribus 10 nervo intramarginali connexis, cum 
reticulatione subtus prominulis superne inconspicuis. Petioli 1 em. longi vel 
minores, Sycidia rubra, globosa, 5 mm. longa, in axillis geminata, pustulosa, 
maculis pallidioribus, pedicellis 2 mm. longis. Bractee ad pedicelli basin 
singulæ, lanceolatie, acuminate, sub sycidio 2, ovatze, acuta, minim. Sycidit 
ostium rotundatum nee elevatum. Flos masculus breviter pedicellatus, 
pedicello capillis sericeis tecto. Perianthii lobi 3 oblongi, dense sericei. 
Stamen 1, perianthio brevius, filamento brevi; anthera majuscula, oblonga. 
Perianthium femineum simile ac majus, pedicello paullo longius. Achenium 
globoso-pyriforme, leve, pallide cervinum, stylo brevi laterali. 
Hab, Kinabalu, high forest, Gurulau spur, 5000'. Feb. 4008. Kiau, 
3000', in recent sec. forest. Feb. 3972. 
** Tree, receptacles red." 
A rather striking plant on account of its narrow leaves which dry a 
bright yellow, and the unusually silky hairy flowers. It seems nearest to 
F. cuspidata, Reinw. (section Sycidium). 
FICUS CHRYSOCARPA, Reinw. ev Blume, Bijdr. 415, var. 
Renagong, 2000', common all through the sec. jungle. Feb. 3940. 
Distrib. Malaya. 
“Tree, receptacles yellow.” 
This differs from the common Singapore form in its more glabrous leaves, 
which are also more polished above and have rounded bases. Miss Gibbs 
gives this as a tree and so does Wray on a ticket from a specimen collected 
at Tapak, in Perak, but a plant collected by Haviland at Pengkulu Ampat, 
in Sarawak, is quoted as a shrub. King gives it as 10 to 30 feet high. It 
