76 JFLORULA HONGKONGENSIS, 



10. Ficus (Sycidium?) variolosa y hixxdi. — Benth. in Lond. Journ. 

 Bot. vol. i. p. 492. 



Common in ravines. The leaves vary in length and breadth ; they 

 are usually of the size and with the venation of those of F, piriformis, 

 but the point is very short, broad and blunt. The peduncles are from 

 1 to 3 lines long, with three bracts at the apex. The receptacles I 

 formerly described w^ere very young; those on Captain Champion's 

 specimens appear to be full grown, they are 4 or 5 lines in diameter^ 

 nearly globose, slightly umbonate, with a few scales at the mouth. 

 The flowers are tribracteolate, the males few in number, near the mouth, 

 stipitate and diandrous, the females numerous, sessile or stipitate, with 

 a unilateral style, and an obliquely truncate or emarginate stigmate, 

 nearly as in the section Plagiostigma, The perigons are 3-phyllous, 

 and brown as well as the bracts. 



9. ricus (Sycidium?) impresm^ Champ., sp. n. ; fruticosa (prostrata?) 

 ramosissima glabra, foliis (parvis) petiolatis ellipticis oblongisve 

 obtusis integerrimis basi rotundatis penninerviis reticulato-veno- 

 sissimis areolis subtus impresso-punctatis, receptaculis peduuculatis 

 tribracteatis parvis globosis. — Ramtdi fnictiferi flexuosi, breves. 

 Folia li V. raro 2 poll, longa, 6-8 lin. lata, tenuiter coriacea, basi 

 breviter 3-5-nervia, cseterum pcnninervia, nervis majoribus a costa 

 divergentibus utrinque 6-8 iutra marginem arcuato-confluentibus, 

 rete vemdarum utrinque conspicua, areolis subtus siib lente eleganter 

 punctis lineolisve curvulis impressis, Peduncidi subgemini, 1-2 liu, 

 longi. Receptacula 3 lin, diametro, pilis minutis nonnisi sub lente 

 conspicuis strigillosa, JBracteolce et perigonia fusca. Flores ma$- 

 cull sub oreplurimi, diandri, tripartiti ; foeminei num^xo^iy 3-4-partiti. 

 Stylus latei-alis, brevis, stigmate unilateraliter dilatato. Adest etiam 

 ramulus sterilis repens ? tenuis hirtellus, foliis iis ramorum fertilium 

 similibus nisi brevioribus obtusioribus et basi inrequaliter cordatis. 

 Hongkong. The leaves are in size and shape not unlike those of 



F, antltTieiopliylla ^ as figured in the London Journal of Botany, vol. vii, 

 %. 5 B., but difijprent in colour and surface, and the receptacles are not 

 half tlie size. This and the preceding species have the globose recep- 

 tacles of the section Sycidium^ but the stigmate is rather that of Fla- 



m 



{/lodlgma, 



10. Picas (Lciosycca) CJiampioni^ Benth., sp. n.; glaberrima, foliis pe- 

 tiolatis ellipticis v. oblongis obtuse acuminatis basi angustatis inle- 



