930 JCOXXXVL URTICACEE. (J.‘D. Hooker.) [ Ficus, G. King. 
PENANG, PERAK and SINGAPORE, Wallich, &c.—DrisTRIB. Malay Islands. 
Often epiphytal shrub or small tree. Leaves 1 by ł in., to 5 by 4 in., coriaceous 
or subcoriaceous, beneath granulate and with dark glands in the fork of the midrib 
or in the axils of the lower nerves in the penninerved forms; petiole 4-3 in. (13-3 in. 
in var. Kunstleri) ; stipules 1-1 in., linear-lanceolate, convolute. Recepts dull yellow 
or reddish ; basal bracts 3, short, broad, spreading, puberulous ; peduncle 3-1 in. 
Male sepals 4, obovate. Gall sepals 3, ovate or linear; ovary globose, smooth, or 
angular rough and crustaceous; style short, subterminal; stigma wide tubular. 
Achenes twice as large as the gall ovary, elongate-reniform shining; style lateral, 
long, stigma forked.—The leaves are usually of the obovate-cuneate type, with 
bifurcating midrib, rarely also elongated oblanceolate and penninerved. Such dimor- 
phous individuals suggested Blume’s name of diversifolia. This was not published 
until 1825, whereas Jack’s deltoidea and ovoidea were both published in 1822. I, 
however, retain Blume’s name, because it recognizes the dimorphism, and covers 
both Jack’s forms. Three vars, are distinguishable. 
VAR. ovoidea; all parts smaller, leaves narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, tip 
rounded entire, recepts usually in pairs subglobose or ovoid } in. long. ¥. ovoidea, 
ack. 
Var. Kunstleri; leaves large cuneate-deltoid, tip rounded or notched, petiole 
1i-3 in., recepts about } in. long, male fl. long-pedicelled, perianth minute, gall 
sepals 3 linear much longer than the achene. —Perak. 
Var. lutescens; leaves pinnate-nerved subrhombic acute at both ends. F 
lutescens, Desf.— Perak, alt. 4-5000 ft., on the ground and trees. 
93. F. palmata, Forsk. Fl. /Egypt. 179 ; leaves membranous orbicu- 
lar-ovate acute or apiculate toothed or serrate entire or obtusely 3-5-lobed 
subscabrous above scabrid or shortly tomentose beneath, nerves 3-6 pairs, 
recepts solitary axillary subglobose to pyriform, base constricted. | Vah 
Symb. i. 84, t. 24; Mig. Ann. iii. 290, and in L. J. B.vii.925. F. caricoides, 
Roxb, Fl. Ind. iii. 529; Mig. in L. J. B. l c. 224. F. pseudo-sycamoru» 
Dene. Fl. Sinaie.; Mig. in L. J. B. l.c. 227; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 1155. 
F. virgata, Roxb. l. c. 530; Wight Ic. t. 649; Mig. in L. J. B. 228, and Fie: 
Afric. 130; Brand. For. Fl. 419; Wall. Cat. 4507 A and ? B, 4492. 
N.W. INDIA, from the Indus eastwards to Oudh, ascending to 3000 ft. 1 
HrwALAYA. Mr. Asoo, King.—Disrris. Westward to Egypt and Abyssinia. 
A bush or small tree, nerves epiphytal, shoots tomentose, pubescent or glabrous 
Leaves 14-5 in., base 3-nerved; petiole 1-2 in.; stipules in pairs, ovate, 200 ts 
pubescent, deciduous. Recepts 4-1 in. diam., umbonate, (ripe) yellow ; basal bracts 
3, acute, deciduous; peduncle 1-1 in. Male fl. on hairy pedicels ; sepals 4-5, lane 
late, hairy. Gall fl. sessile or pedicelled ; perianth deeply 5-cleft; ovary lr 
smooth ; style very short, lateral, stigma dilated. Fem. jl. ; perianth of gall The 
achene trigonous, granular; style subterminal, long, hairy, stigma bifid.— 
Indian representative of F. Carica, L 
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94. F. alba, Reinwdt. in Blume Bijd. 467 ; leaves ovate ellipti 
lanceolate or subrhombie entire or acutely 3-lobed irregularly t 
scabrid or hispidulous above clothed with white or cinnamon tom 
beneath, nerves 3-4 pairs above the basal, recepts in axillary p? nd 
depressed globose or ovoid smooth when ripe. Mig. Flor. i. D- 294, p 
F. Mappan, Suppl. 424, 425; Ann. iii. 270, 290. F. nivea, Blume 7g 
Miq. Flor. l. c. 294. F. gossypina, Wall. Cat. 4488 ; Mig. in Hook. L. 225, 
vii. 455; Flor. l e. 294; Suppl. 495. F. Hunteri, Mig. in L. J. B. l.c. 
and Flor. l. e. 296. PF. palmata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 529. 
PENANG, PERAK, SINGAPORE and Matacca, ascending to 4000 
Malay Islands. 
ft, —DISTBIP: 
