19041. 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. 



153 



Plagiostigtna pumilum Zucc. in Abh. Akad. Muench. TV. 1, p. 154, 



adn. 



Ficus pumila var. a. Thunb. Fl. -Tap. p. 33; Sieb. et Zucc. Abh. 

 Akad. Muench. IV. 3, p. 222. 



Ficus stipulala Thunb. Dissert. Fie. p. 8, n. 7 ; Vahl, Ennm. PL II. 

 1>. 184; Willd. Sp. PL IV. p. 1130; Reem. et Schnlt. Syst. Veg. I. p. 

 501; Spreng. Syst. Veg. III. p. 779; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, V. p. 486; 

 Sieb. S.yn. PI. Oecon. Jap. in Verb. Batav. Gen. XII. n. 174; Sieb. et 

 Zucc. Abh. Akad. Muench. IV. 3, p. 222 ; Hoffm. et Schult. Norn, indig. 

 P). Jap. in Journ. Asist. (1852) p. 294, n. 241 ; Walp. Ann. I p. 720; 

 Hook. til. in P>ot. Mag. tab. 6657; Bretschn. Hist. Eur. Bot. Disc. China,, 



p. 198. 



Ficus stipuhda Thunh. ; Seem. Bot. Voy. ' Herald.' p. 413. 

 Plagiostigma stiptdatom Zucc. in Abh. Akad. Muench. IV. 1, p. 154, 

 adn. 



Ficus erecta Auct. plnr. non Thunb. 



Tenorea Jieterqphylla Gasp. « Nov. Gen. Fici, p. 6, et Ricerche Snll; 

 Nat. Caprif. e del Fico. p. 81, tab. 8, f. 22-31.' 



Ficus scandens Lam. Erie. II. p. 498 ; Vahl, Ennm. PI. II. p. 184, 

 Per?. Syn. PI. II. p. 609 ; Roem., et Schnlt. Syst. A r eg. I. p. 500. 

 Ficits repens Hort. ex Hook. fil. 

 Jnu Itabu Ksempf. Amcen. Exot. p. 803, ic. p. 804. 

 Scandent, radicant, strong, ramose; fructiferous branches erect, densely 

 leaved, terete, glabrous, pale cinereous, or fulvous, marked with nodal lines 

 under which with an annular series of lenticels ; the young branchlet ad- 

 pressed -tomentose with short ferruginous hairs- 

 Leaves persistent, alternate, obovato- elliptical, 

 ovato-elliptical, oblong-elliptical, elliptical, or nar- 

 rowly ovato-ohlong, obtuse at the apex, rounded 

 or obtuse or acutish towards the base and often 

 subcordate at the very base, entire with reflexed 

 margin, coriaceous, glabrous above, thinly pubescent 

 beneath, about 2-10icm. long, l§-5Jcra. broad; 

 midrib prominent beneath and impressed above- 

 as are veins ; veins loose, erect-patent, 5-6 or 7 

 on each side, usually hardly arcuate upwards, 

 continued before reaching the margin, the 

 basal two opposite and triplinerved with the 

 midrib, upper ones subopposite or alternate ; veinlets minutely and densely 



