Tap. 7550, 
FICUS erecta, var. SIEBOLDII. 
Native of Japan. 
Nat. Ord. Urnticez.—Tribe ARTOCARPE. 
Genus Ficus, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 367.) 
Ficus erecta var. Sieboldii; frutex v. arbuscula, ramulis glabris puberulisve, 
foliis lineari-oblongis-lanceolatisve acuminatis integris v. hic illic lobula- 
tis basi rotundatis truncatis cordatisve supra glabris subtus puberulis v. 
asperulis, stipulis ovatis acuminatis, receptaculis solitariis geminisve 
longe pedunculatis globoso-pyriformibus coloratis in stipitem elongatum 
basi contractis, bracteis ad basin stipitis 3 minutis triangulari-ovatis, fl. 
mase. in eodem receptaculo cum galliparis subsessilibus 1-3-andris, sepalis 
3 lanceolatis acuminatis, fi. fertil. subsessilibus, sepalis 4, stylo crassiusculo, 
stigmate 2-lobo. 
F. erecta, Thunb. Diss. Ficus, p. 9; in Trans. Linn. Soe. vol. ii. p. 327, 
King, Annals Bot. Gard. Caleutt. vol. i. p. 141, t. 178. 
Var. Sieboldii, King, J. c. p. 142, t. 178, f. B. : 
F. Sieboldii, Miguel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Iugd. Bat. vol. ii. p. 199, et iii, p. 295- 
Maxim. in Bull, Acad. Petersb. vol. xi. p. 327. 
According to Dr. King’s account of Ficus erecta in his 
invaluable monograph of the Eastern Asiatic Figs, it is an 
extraordinarily variable plant, and but for the evidence he 
adduces it would be difficult to believe that the forms he 
fizures belong to one and the same species. In habit 
F. erecta varies from a shrub to a small tree, with nearly 
glabrous, pubescent, or almost strigose branchlets, leaves 
and receptacles. The leaves vary from broadly ovate, 
obovate, elliptic, or subrhomboid, to the narrow form of 
those of var. Sieboldii, and are quite entire, or here and 
there lobulate, or rather coarsely toothed above the 
middle. The receptacles are solitary, or in pairs, glabrous 
or hispidulous, peduncled or subsessile on the branchilets, 
either globose and not stalked, or pyriform and narrowed 
into a long stalk. 
Of F’. erecta Dr. King makes 2 varieties, namely— 
Var. Beecheyana, King (I. Beecheyana, Hook. et Arn. 
Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 271), a native of Japan, Formosa, 
Aveust Ist, 1897, 
