Ficus, G. King.] | CXXXVI. URTICACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 535 
OvTrR HIMALAYA, from the Indus to Bhotan; KRas1IA Mrs., CHITTAGONG and 
URMA, ascending to 5000 ft. 
A low spreading tree, 10-30 ft., bark brown. Leaves 5-15 by 41-12 in., base 
cordate, rarely rounded, 5-7-nerved ; nerves prominent on both surfaces, nervules 
nearly transverse ; petiole 1-4 in.; stipules 3-1 in., ovate-lanceolate, pubescent, 
Recepts 2 in. diam. and more, pubescent or glabrous, (ripe) russet-brown or purplish 
and spotted, umbilicus large, base sometimes constricted; basal bracts 3, rather 
large, triangular ; peduncle #-1} in., pubescent. Male sepals large, inflated, broadly 
imbricate; stamens 2-3, filaments long, stout. Gall perianth 2—3-lobed ; style 
short, subterminal, stigma dilated. Fem. fl. subsessile or pedicelled, perianth of 
gall fl.; achene granulate, viscid; style long, lateral, curved, hairy, stigma 
cylindric, 
108. F. pomifera, Wail. Cat. 4547; leaves glabrous or nearly so 
elliptic subovate or lanceolate acute coarsely serrate, nerves 4-5 pairs, 
recepts clustered on cauline and rameal tubercles or short leafless branches 
9ng-peduncled globose or subpyriform 4-6-grooved pubescent. F. oligodon, 
^q. Ann. ii. 234, 997. F. regia, Mig. l. c. 230, 296 (in part); Kurz For. 
Fl i. 458. p. Hamiltoniana, Wall. Cat. 4545 A. 
. BIKKIM HrwALAYA, alt. 1-3000 ft., J. D. H., &e. CHITTAGONG, Lister. BURMA, 
urz, &c, PERAK, Kunstler. —DISTRIB. Malay Islands. 
À tall tree, head narrow, bark white. Leaves 41-8 in., above when young pube- 
rulous, beneath papillose puberulous or glabrous, base rounded or subcuneate, 
S-nerved ; petiole 13-34 in., pubescent ; stipules j-$ in., ovate-lanceolate. Recepts 
lin. diam. (ripe) reddish, sometimes warted, oral bracts large, pubescent, basal 3, ovate, 
"006; peduncle 1-21 in. Male sepals 3, large, enclosing the 2 curved anthers. 
Gall and fem, perianth 3-toothed, of the gall fl. often enveloping the ovoid smooth 
ovary. Achene papillose; style long, lateral, stigma clavate.— Differs from F, 
Rovburghii in the white bark, smaller more glabrous not cordate leaves, and hairy 
receptacles on longer slenderer peduncles ; it is also a more southern plant. 
109. P. variegata, Blume Bijd. 459; leaves broadly or elliptic-ovate 
acuminate entire subrepand or denticulate glabrous above puberulous or 
8’abrous beneath, nerves 4 pairs, recepts clustered on cauline and rameal 
tubercles peduncled globose smooth. Mig. Flor. i. ii. 320; Ann. id. 295. 
' Subracemosa, Blume l c. 469; Mig. Flor. l c. 330; Choir PI. CI 
racemifera, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 000; Wight Ic. t. 639. F. SION cerif es, 
Mig. Ann, l. c. 930, 995. F. subopaca, Mig. Flor. l e. 320. F. cerifera, 
dime in Ann. Se, Nat. Ser, 4, ii. 333, t. 14. F. ceriflua, Jungh. Java i. 
$9. F. chlorocarpa, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 330; Mig. Ann. l. c. 296 Zh lavim. 
yal Acad. Petersb. xi. 330. Covellia racemifera, Mig. in L. P vi 
ri Plor, 1. e. 325, Sycomorus capensis & gummiflua, Mig. Pl. Jungh. 
Rumph. Herb. Amb. 145, t. 93. 
Malay T rAGONG, Lister. Assam, Mann. PENANG, King’s Collector.— DISTRIB. 
Slands, `. 
tall spreading tr z labrous or pubescent. Leaves 4-7 in., 
has nd are ail, hens elaro P periret 
(ine 1-2 in.; stipules 13 in acuminate, glabrous. Recepts lin. diam., MM 
"Pe) red, with white streaks and dots, base sometimes constricted ; basal bracts > 
» deciduous ; peduncle 3-2 in. Male sepals 3 or 4, linear-lancoolata ; elena 
boya; PeriantA 4—5.toothed ; ovary ovoid, smooth, stigma funnel-shaped. 
oid, granulate, stigma clavate. 
110. P, lo r. Pl. ii. t. 123, and Fl. Ind. iii. 558; 
leaves mente anous nna? eee long or -lanceolate subacute glabrous 
"Mely softly pubescent above pubescent and glabrous or asperous beneath, 
