501 cxxxvi. URTICACEX. (J.D. Hooker) [Ficus G. King. 
i i i litary 
margins entire revolute when dry, receptacles in axillary pairs or solit 
sessile cylindro-conical base truncate, apex umbonate, ripe smooth brighe 
red with faint white spots 15-2 in. long by 1 broad at base, Aca Mig. 
spreading broadly triangular pubescent. King Fic. 29, BT. Flan ie 
Ann. iii, 286. Urostigma xylophyllum, Mig. in L. J. D. vi. ; . 
352, t. 23. 
PERAK, PENANG and SINGAPORE, Wallich, &e.—DISTRIB. Sumatra. es about 
A powerful epiphyte or small tree. Leaves 6-10 by 3-43 t S boat 1-1) in. 
5 pairs, prominent below, reticulations inconspicuous ; petiole stou ?beocent, or with 
stipules 14 in., coriaceous, broadly ovate, acute, shortly reddish pube ton de of the 
broad smooth margins. Male fl. numerous, scattered over the whole in or ile or 
receptacle, pedicelled ; sepals 4; anther 1, elongate, sessile. Gall fe e minutely 
pedicelled ; sepals 5 ; ovary smooth ; style elongate. Fem. JL. sessile ; ac 
tubercled; perianth degenerate into cellular tissue. 
s lous, ulti- 
19. F. altissima, Blume Bijd. 444; young parts puberulous, 
mately all glabrous except the external surface of the stipules, hotly 
coriaceous petioled broadly ovate-elliptic rarely ovate-lanceo "lo slightly 
obtusely cuspidate entire, base rounded rarely narrowed occasiona Y^ g aits 
unequal never cordate 3-5-nerved, receptacles sessile axillary ia Pith, 
enveloped when young in early deciduous calyptriform bracts ovo obtuse 
ripe 2-1 in. long lake-red or yellowish, basal bracts 3 short BL 82 82" ; 
united at the base pubescent or puberulous. King Fic, 30, t. 30, Fi Tad iii. 
Mig. Ann. ii. 285; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 449. F. laccifera, Roxb. Rodd. For. 
545 ; Wight Ic. t. 656; Brand. For. Fl. 418 ; Kurz l. c. 441 ; T "omini, 
Man. 223; Wall. Cat. 4559 F, 4560 (in part). Urostigma altiss s 
Mig. in Zoll. Syst. Verz. 90 and 96; Flor. i.iì. 349. U. lacciferum, Mig. ™ 
L. J. B. vi. 575. 
: hills 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Nepal to Bhotan, and in the plains and id and 
of the DECCAN PENINSULA, and from Assam to Burma, the Malay Peni , 
the Andaman Islands, CEYLON common.—DistrIB. Malay Islands. erves 5 or 6 
A large spreading tree, with few aerial roots. Leaves 4-7 in.; Plate greyish 
pairs, distinct; petiole 1—14 in. ; stipules 1-12 in., very coriaceous, lance? dicell 
pubescent. Male fl. scattered all over the interior of the receptac polos deeply 
sepals 4; anther subsessile. Gall and fem. fl. with a similar gamop E rcled ; style 
4-cleft perianth ; ovary of the gall fl. smooth, of the fem. minutely tu MC mach 
in both elongate; gall fl. sometimes pedicelled; fem. usually sessile.— t altissima, 
consideration, I cannot but regard F. laccifera, Roxb., as a northern form o 
best distinguished by its larger, thinner leaves. 9-12 pairs 
Var. Fergussoni; leaves narrower often narrowed at the base, DONI med after 
closer, receptacles smaller subglobose.— Ceylon, Thwaites (C.P. 2221).— peculiar to 
my friend, Mr. W. Fergusson, F.L.S., an indefatigable botanist. Jt is p 
Ceylon, and, as Dr. Trimen informs me, certainly indigenous. 
» nales 
20. F. Lowii, King Fic. 32, t. 33, 82"; young branches and M p^ 
covered with a deciduous brown scurf, ultimately all parts glabrous M idate, 
very coriaceous oblong or elliptic rather suddenly and shortly ^ tly 
margins thickened strongly revolute, base rounded or tapering ^ 2 rowded 
the petiole strongly 3-nerved, midrib very prominent, receptacies a, apical 
sessile in axillary pairs globose with a broad flat apical mam al practs 3 
bracts 3 flat, ripe about 3 in. diam. yellow with purplish spots, basa! PF! 
rather small broad coriaceous. 
PERAK, Wray, Kunstler. inent, reti- 
A powerful clanber. Leaves 6-8 in. ; nerves about 6 pairs, not prominent ut, 
culations obscure; beneath dull whitish, above smooth rather dull; pe 
