Tas. 6657. 
FICUS  sripvnata. 
Native of China and Japan. 
Nat. Ord. Urnticem,—Tribe ARTOCARPER. 
Genus Ficus, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 367.) 
Ficus stipulata; caulibus plantis junioribus et sterilibus radicantibus repentibus 
late diffuse ramosis, ramis hirtis gracilibus, ramis senioribus v. fructiferis 
ascendentibus articulatis robustis sulcatis hirsutis, foliis in plantis junioribus 
distichis subsessilibus oblique ovato-cordatis subacutis penninerviis utrinque 
reticulatim nervosis hirtis glabriusculisve, foliis in plantis v. ramis fructiferis 
multo majoribus oblongis utrinque obtusis basi triplinerviis supra levibus 
subtus prominenter reticulatis, petiolo hirsuto, stipulis foliis junioribus mem- 
branaceis glabris, in senioribus firmis dorso dense pubescentibus v. villosis, 
receptaculis magnis pedunculatis pyriformibus turbinatisve appresse pubescen- 
tibus demum glabris intus villosis, perianthio ? 4-mero, stylis aliis filiformibus 
in stigmate acuto aliis robustis stigmate peltato. 
F. stipulata, Thunb. Dissert. de Ficu. n.7; Vahl, Enum. Pl.. vol. ii. p. 184; 
Willd. Sp. Pl. vol.iv. pars 2, p. 1139; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed, 2, vol. v. p. 486; 
Miquel in Hook. Lond. Journ, Bot. vol. vii. p. 439; Wendl. Coll. Plant. 
t.72; Masters in Gard. Chron. 1880, p. 716, fig. 135 et fig. 102, 103 (F. repens). 
F. scandens, Lam. Dict. vol. ii. p. 498; Vahl Enum. Pl. vol. ii. p. 184. 
F, repens, Hort. . 
Puaciostiema stipulatum, Zuccarin. in Abhandl. Acad. Bayer. Wissenschaft. 
vol. i. p. 154 in nota. 
Tenorra heterophylla, Gasparr. Ricerche Sull. Nat. Caprif. e del Fico, p. 81, 
t. 8, f. 22-31. 
Of this well-known little ornament of the warm green- 
house and hothouse, only the female flowers have been 
seen, and there is some doubt as to the structure of the 
stigma of these, which is described by Zuccarini and 
Miquel as peltate, agreeing with the figure here given, but 
which, in the specimens that I have examined in the 
Herbarium, from the Berlin Garden, collected in 1877 by 
Mr. Bentham, and from a French Garden, preserved in 
Gay’s Herbarium, is unmistakably very long, filiform, and 
narrowed to the very tip. Possibly the flowers are dimorphic, 
for the genus Plagiostigma was founded by Zuccarini for 
this species on the peltate form of its stigma. 
Ficus stipulata was, according to Aiton, introduced about 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1882. 
