524. CXXXVI. URTICACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ficus, G. King. 
axils of scarious bracts glabrous. Mig. Anan. iii. 297. Covellia prostrata, 
Miq. in L. J. B. vii. 465. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 2000 ft., Kurz. SILHET and the Kmasra HILIS, 
Wallich, &e. . 
A small tree. Leaves 54-7 in., tapering from above the middle to the rather 
obtuse 3-5-nerved base; petiole } in.; stipules $ in., narrow, convolute. Fruiting 
branches 10-12 ft., prostrate. Recepts with 3 ovate acuminate basal bracts, pedun- 
cle jin. Fem. fl. sessile or pedicelled ; sepals 3—4, linear; achene broadly ovoid; 
style about as long, stigma cylindric.— Male and gall fl. unknown.— Closely allied to 
F. Ribes, Reinwdt., but distinguished by its larger size, absence of hairs and larger 
receptacles; intermediates, however, occur. 
74. F. Miquelii, King; shoots strigose, leaves subopposite and alter- 
nate obovate-oblong or oblanceolate cuspidately tailed entire subglabrous, 
nerves 6-8 pairs, recepts depressed globose in woody panicles from the stem 
ubescent. F. caulocarpa, Mig. Ann. iii. 285, 297 (not Urost. caulocarpa). 
. fistulosa, Kurz For, Fl. ii. 459 (in part, not of Reinwdt.). 
PEGU to TENASSERIM, Kurz PERAK, Kunstler. SINGAPORE, King.—DISTRIB. 
Sumatra, Celebes, 
A tree. Leaves 44-8 in., membranous, pubescent above and beneath when young, 
adult almost glabrous, tail 1 in., base narrowed 3-nerved; petiole j-à in.; stipules 
i in. lanceolate, pubescent. Fruiting branches cauline, large, much panicled, sour A 
Recepts 3 in. diam., ripe greenish with pale stripes ; oral bracts many broad, basa : 
ovate acute; peduncle 4 in. Male sepals 3, ovate, inflated, broadly imbricate, ; 
anther broadly ovate, emarginate. Gall and fem. fl. naked. Gall ovary ovo! L 
globose; style short, lateral, stigma tubular. Achene obovoid, tubercled ; style lateral, 
as long as the ovary, stigma cylindric. 
75. F. fasciculata, King; shoots purplish-strigose, leaves alternate 
short-petioled narrowly or obovate-elliptic cuspidate subcrenate glabrovs 
above tuberculate beneath with 4-5 pairs of appressed hairy nerves, recep 
fascicled on cauline tubercles peduncled subglobose ridged glabrous. 
PERAK ; banks of the Kampo River, Kunstler. . ‘vid 
A small tree. Leaves 7-9, minutely 3-nerved, base acute; petiole 3 in., hispo 
with purplish hairs; stipules 1 in., lanceolate, hispid. Recepts 5-8 in a cluster, 
russet-brown; basal bracts 3, minute, ovate; peduncle }in., pubescent. Fem. lv 
pedicelled ; perianth tubular, girding the lower half of the stipes of the oblique Y 
ovoid tubercled achene; style subterminal, filiform, about as long as the ova » 
stigma clavate.— Male and gall fl. not seen. 
76. F. Ribes, Reinwdt. in Blume Bijd. 463; shoots strigose, leaves 
alternate petioled glabrous except the appressed pubescent midrib ane 
nerves beneath lanceolate or oblanceolate subfalcate caudate entire, nerve 
7-9 pairs, recepts on long leafless branches from the base of the stem very 
small peduncled subglobose constricted at the base ribbed puberulovs. 
Mig. Ann. iii. 284, 297; Kurz For, Fl. ii. 458. F. polycarpa, Roxb. F. 
Ind, iii. 556; Wall. Cat. 4509. F. copiosa, Steud. Nomencl. 1. 635. 395. 
prostrata, Wall. Cat. 4536 (in part). Covellia Ribes, Mig. Flor. 1. 1. nd 
s microcarpa & paniculata, Mig. in L. J. B. vii. 466, t. 9 A, a 
7. 
TENASSERIM to PENANG and SINGAPORE, Wallich, &c.—DistRiB. Malay Islands, 
New Guinea. :ddle to 
A small tree. Leaves 23-44 in., membranous, narrowed from below the mol . 
the acute sub-3-nerved base; petiole 4 in., strigose; stipules $ 1n. pose 
Recepts } in. diam., young warted, mouth closed by 5 broad bracts, base cons fated ; 
into a 3-bracteate stipes 4'; in. long; peduncle } in. Male sepals 2, large, ? 
