496 Species novae ex: F. M. Bailey, Contribut. of the Flora of Queensland. IX. 
Perhaps a distinct species, but from the general appearance of tree and : 
ripe fruit, closely resembling the normal form. May often be seen grown 
in mistake for F. macrophylla in and near Brisbane. 
41. Ficus semicostata Bail, l. c., p. 316, pl. XXXIV. — A cluster 
fig, and very closely related to both F. variegata Blume, and F. glomerata 
Roxb. A tree with wide spreading head. very leafy, giving a good 
shade. Leaves glabrous, thin-coriaceous, glossy-green on both sides, but 
paler beneath, long-ovate, acuminate, 4 to 7 in. long, 3 to 4 in. broad, 
rounded or cuneate and oblique at the base, lateral nerves prominent, 
the lower two opposite the others alternate and distant about 8 or 9 on, 
each side of midrib, margins entire; petioles 2 to 3 in. long, nearly or 
quite glabrous. Stipules silky-pubescent, narrow-lanceolate, about 9 lines 
long, for some time persistent near the ends of the branches. Re- 
ceptacles on the trunk and thick branches and sometimes on the thinner 
branches of the head of the tree, in masses of short or longer branches 
bearing stipules but no leaves, the receptacles very numerous, often 
appearing like racames of green and reddish-brown, when quite ripe 
fruits 1!/, in. diameter; peduncle 3 lines long, basal bracts 3 or 4, 
rounded, ciliate. Receptacle pyriform, turbinate, the stipitate portion 
and half up the fruit prominently ribbed, the whole dotted with round 
or oval white dots; apical bracts of a dark glossy colour, roundish. The 
male and female flowers in separate receptacles. Male flowers crowded 
towards the orifice, perianth segments 3, loose and broad. Stamens 2, 
filaments free; anthers fairly large. The gall flowers seem to be wan- 
ting in perianth. Female flowers: perianth small and narrow. Style 
usually short, but sometimes long and slender, clavate. — Queensland: 
Mr. Walter Hill; described from trees planted by him in Brisbane 
Botanic Gardens, under the name of Ficus vesca F. v. M., and, as I 
have lately received specimens of the same tree from Mr. W. F. 
Bevington, of the Musgrave River, in all probability Mr. Hill brought 
the fine trees now in the Botanie Gardens from that locality on his first 
visit there in 1878. 
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