526 cxxxvi. URrICACE E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ficus, G. King. 
above pubescent beneath, those on fruiting branches twice as large elliptic 
or obovate entire, recepts subsolitary axillary globose smooth. F. diversi- 
formis, Miq. in L. J. B. vii. 441; Ann. l.c. 281, 294, and F. disticha, 
Thwaites Enum. 266. F. oxycoccoides, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. 438. F. stipulata, 
Moon Cat. 6. 
CeYroN ; Central Province, ascending to 5000 ft. . 
A slender climbing rooting shrub, with free fruiting branches. Leaves i in., 
base 8-nerved notched or cordate; petiole 1 in.; stipules a little longer, ovate. 
Recepts } in. diam., base contracted into a 4; in. stipes with 3 broad basal bracts. 
Sepals of all fl. 3, short, broad; gall and fem. fl. similar. 
81. F. excavata, King; shoots tawny-pubescent, leaves obliquely or 
orbicular-ovate obtuse entire glabrous above sparsely appressed-pubescent 
beneath, nerves 2 pairs, reticulations lacunose, recepts in axillary clusters 
sessile depressed-globose pubescent. 
PERAK, King’s Collector.—Distr1B. Borneo. 
Scandent. Leaves 14-1} in.; base subequal, 5-nerved ; petiole 4 in., pubescent ; 
stipules in pairs, } in., ovate, acuminate, silky, deciduous. Recepts in clusters of 
about 6, unripe orange-red (ripe unknown) ; basal bracts 3, triangular-ovate, glabrous. 
Fem. fl. subsessile; sepals 4; achene oblong, subpapillose, style short, subterminal.— 
Allied to F. recurva and lanata, Blume. f 
82. F. leevis, Blume Bijd. 437 ; usually glabrous, leaves membranous 
long-petioled orbicular or broadly or elliptic-ovate cuspidate entire or 
obscurely toothed towards the tip, nerves 3-4 pairs above the basal, recepts 
axillary peduncled subsolitary globose rarely pyriform. Mig. Ann. iii. 278, 
293. F. vagans, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 537. F. Emodi, Wall. Cat. 4515. ? F. 
pedicellata, Wall. Cat. 4486 (in part). F. ceylanica, Miq. Ann. l. c. 298; 
and in L. J. B. l. c. 75. Pogonotrophe levis, Mig. Flor. i. ii. 330. P. 
assamica, Mig. in L. J. B. 73. P. dasyphylla, Mig. l. c. 74, and Ann. l. c. 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Nepal eastwards, alt. 2-5000 ft.; and from AssaM 
to the MALAY PENINSULA and CryLton.—Disrris. Malay Islands. 
A small tree or epiphyte. Leaves 4-7 in. glabrous above except the nerve» 
beneath puberulous or pubescent; base rounded to cordate rarely narrowed, ° 
nerved ; petiole 14—24 in. ; stipules 1—1 in. Recepts }-1 in. diam., ripe greenish-yellow, 
smooth, puberulous or tomentose, hispid within; basal bracts 3, small, spreading 5 
peduncle slender, glabrous. Sepals of all fl. 5, linear-lanceolate ; anthers 2-3, elon- 
gate, subsagittate. Gall ovary globose, smooth; style short, subterminal, stigma 
dilated. Achene ellipsoid, style terminal, nearly as long, stigma bifid.—The follow- 
ing are the prominent forms, , 
VAR. dasyphylla ; leaves more or less appressed pubescent beneath, receptacles 
and peduncles tawny-tomentose.— Ceylon (the only form there). 
1; Van. tomentosa ; leaves tomentose, receptacles tomentose or pubescent, 
in. — r erak. 
. Van. assamica ; shrubby, leaves very broad rather thick puberulous, 
in pairs, peduncles 14 in. divaricate.— Khasia and Dupbla Hills, Cachar. 
peduncles 
receptacles 
83. F. scandens, Rozb. Fl. Ind. iii. 526 ; leaves ovate or clliptic-ovate 
subacute or acute entire base broad rounded, nerves 3 pairs above the basal, 
receptacles axillary long-peduncled solitary or in pairs globose scaberulous. 
Wight Ic. t. 643; Mig. in L. J. B. vii. 452; Ann. iii. 281, 294; Brand. 22% 
Fl, 421 ; Kurz For. Fl. à. 455. F. fructicosa & hederacea, Roxb. l. c. e) 
oaa E Eraticosa, Roxb.?, crustacea & triplinervis, Wall. Cat. 490], 
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