932 CXXXVI. URTICACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ficus, G. King. 
ii Mig. i j i j ll. Cat. 
F. Roxburghii, Mig. in L. J. B. l. c. 456. F. triloba, Ham. in Wa ut 
4491 Mig, Ana. i c. 270, 290; Brand. For. Fl. 423; Kurz For. Fl. i. 
449. F. hirsuta, Roxb. l. c. 528; Wight l. c. t. 670. 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Sikkim eastwards; Assam, Burma and the MALAY 
LA.—DisTRIB. Malay Islands, China. . 
PN or small tree. ‘Leaves 5-12 in., base narrow, rounded or cordate ; petiole 
3-1 in., hirsute ; stipules À-$ in., ovate-lanceolate, deciduously strigose or P 
Recepts $—1 in. diam.; oral bracts many, some large ; basal ovate, acuminate. RM 
of all fl. 4, lanceolate, glabrous. Stamens 1-3. Gall ovary globose or ovoid, ar 
style short, stigma funnel-shaped. Achene granulate, ellipsoid, notched at the 
of the lateral long style, stigma cylindric. . 
F. hirta proper has narrower leaves and recepts } in., and is the southern m 
F. triloba, Ham. (Roxburghii, Miq.), has ovate or rounded ovate leaves entire 
deeply lobed, and recepts 4 in. diam. Both forms meet on the Khasia Mts. 
98. F. variolosa, Lindl. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. (1842) i. 492; 
glabrous, leaves oblong- or ob-lanceolate subacute entire, nerves 8-10 pairs 
basal subhorizontal, recepts in axillary pairs peduncled globose umbonase 
warted glabrous. Benth. Fl. Hongk. 328; Mig. Ann. ii. 294; Maxim. t 
Bull. Acad. Petersb. xi. 336. 
Perak, Kunstler.—Distr1B. Hong Kong. . te, not 
A shrub. Leaves 23-41 in., sometimes obtusely acuminate, base cunea Fan 
3-nerved, margins recurved; petiole }-1 in.; stipules $ in., ovate, aenn below, 
Recepts 3 in. diam.; oral bracts large, basal 3, triangular-ovate, bajen 3-4, 
spreading ; peduncle }—} in., slender. Fem. fl. subsessile or pedicelled ; sepals d 
achene trigonous, wrinkled minutely ; style lateral.—Male and gall fl. unknown. 
99. F. erecta, Thunb. Diss. Fic. 9, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 327, m 
Sieboldi , leaves long-lanceolate acuminate entire or subserrate towards p 
tip above glabrous or scabrid beneath hispid and minutely tubercu e , 
nerves about 8 pairs, recepts in axillary pairs peduncled pyritorm amoo , 
base'much constricted. Kampf. Ic. Sel. t..4; Franch. & Savat. En. EO ee. 
i 435, ii. 490. F. pumila 8, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 33. F. Sieboldi, Mig. | Ta 
i. 199, ii. 295; Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Petersb. xi. 327. PF. pyrifom™ 
Burm, Fl. Ind. 226; Mig. Prolus. 931. ? F. japonica, Blume Bid. T , 
Sieb. & Zucc. FI. Jap. Fam. Nat. No. 778; Maxim. l. c. 328.—Itaber, 
Kempf. Amen. Exot. 803. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA, J. D. H. KnasrA HILLS, Mann.—DISTRIB. China, Japans 
A small tree, shoots subglabrous. Leaves 2—4 in. Recepts 1 in. diam., gla style 
or puberulous. Male and gall sepals 3, lanceolate. Gall ovary globos; E. 
short, lateral, stigma dilated. Fem, fl. subsessile; sepals 4; style lateral, fewer- 
stigma 2-lobed.-—The typical F. erecta has broadly ovate or elliptic-obovate fe var. 
nerved leaves, and depressed recepts less constricted below. The Hong Kong 
—See 
(Beecheyana) has the leaves beneath and recepts hispid or almost tomentose. 
F. silhetensis and chartacea. 
100. F. glandulifera, Wall. Cat. 4481; leaves membranous ovate to 
subobovate-oblong cuspidate entire glabrous except the puberulous 7 hous 
and 4-5 pairs of nerves, recepts in axillary clusters smooth dimorh; 205 
subglobose with male and gall tl. or ellipsoid and female. F. m 203 99, 
Miq. Ann. iii. 293., Pogonotrophe aurantiaca, Mig. in Zoll. Sys 1 e. l. 
aud Flor. i. ii. 332. P. glandulifera, Mig. in L. J. B. vii. 77; Flor. t. €. 
P. sumatrana, Mig. Flor. Suppl. 436. th, 
ri 
Burma, Falconer. PzNANG, Porter. PERAK, Kunstler. MALACCA, Griff 
Maingay.—DisTRiB. Malay Islands. 
