Tas. 8092. 
FICUS KRISHNA. 
India. 
Urticace#. ‘l'ribe ARTOCARPE. 
Ficus, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 367. . 
Ficus Krishne, C. DC.; species F. (Urostigmati) bengalensi, Linn., proxima, 
stigmate tamen majore, perigonii phyllis obtusis, antherarum connectivo 
obtnso, stipulis longioribus extus villosis, foliis subtus minute velutinis 
differt ; foliorum laminis hypoascidiformibus insignis. 
Arbor parva. Ramuli hirtelli. Folia longe petiolata; stipule oblongo- 
triangule, apice acute acuminate, extus pubescentes, usque ad 2 poll. 
longee ; petiolus teres, parce hirtellus, usque ad 3°5 poll. longus; limbus 
circiter 5 poll. longus, 3 poll. latus, hypoascidiformis, id est in ascidium 
faciem dorsalem limbi includens conformatus, labro superiore basi 7-nervio 
ejusque nervo centrali nervos laterales subadscendentes utrinque 3 
mittente, labro inferiore quam superiore multo breviore integro vel varius 
emarginato 5-nervio. Receptacula axillaria, sessilia, geminata, androgynia, 
bracteis 3 rotundatis et basi cordatis fulta, globosa, velutino-puberula, 
diametro fere 71. crassa. Flores masculi pedicellati, monandri; perigo- 
nium 3-phyllinum, phyllis ellipticis apice obtusis; anthera subsessilis, 
ovata, phyllis paullo brevior, counectivo supra thecas producto obtuso 
subacutove. Flores feminei sessiles vel interdum pedicellati; perigonium 
4-pbyllinum phyllis ovato—oblongis superne lacinulatis et apice acutis ; 
ovarium ovatum vel subglobosum ; stylus gracilis, ovariam sequans, apice 
stigma fere aequilongum tenuiter membranaceum oblongo-ellipticum basi 
subpeltatum et apice acutum gerens.—Vulgo Krishna Bor.—C. DE 
CaNDOLLE. 
This striking plant was brought to the writer’s notice 
ten years ago by anative of Bengal. The branch submitted 
for inspection came from a private garden in the neighbour- 
hood of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. An attempt 
to obtain rooted cuttings from this branch did not succeed. 
'’he owner of the tree would not say whence it came or 
how old it was, and there was a difficulty as to securing a 
second branch. ‘This was at length overcome, and two 
cuttings were eventually reared. One of the resulting 
plants was placed in the public collection in the Calcutta 
Garden; the second was employed in propagating examples 
for distribution. 
The plate is from one of these which reached Kew in 
1902, where it has been grown in a Tropical House. It 
formed receptacles for the first time in 1905. Another, 
sent from Calcutta to Mr. C. de Candolle, at Geneva, also 
' SEPTEMBER Ist, 1906. 
