Ftci/s.] UrticacecB. 85 



Shrubs or epiphytes, rarely arboreous ; recepts. 

 peduncled in all. 

 Recepts. on special arrested branches. 



L. glabrous 21. F. glomerata. 



L. hispid 18. F. hispida. 



Recepts. axillary, or on the scars of ordinary 

 branchlets. 



L. scabrid 16 F. heterophylla. 



L. smooth or nearly so. 



L. broadly ovate, caudate . . . . 20. F. la:vis. 

 L. oblong or obovate. 



Recepts. warted i. F. parasitica. 



Recepts. smooth 19. F. Thwaitesii. 



Natural Sections to which the Ceylon Fici belong. 

 * Fl. monandrous (diandrous in 15. F. callosa). 

 I. Palaeomorphe. Small tree or erect shrub; recepts. fascicled in the 

 1. axils or at the scars of fallen 1. ; basal bracts o: — i. F. parasitica. 

 1. UrOSTIGMA. Tall trees or powerful climbers ; recepts. solitary or 

 binate in the 1. axils, or at the scars of fallen 1. ; basal bracts 3, 

 large, o in 9. F. nervosa. 



t Petiole short {l-i\ in.), not jointed on the blade. 

 L. with more or less distant veins : — 2. F. benghaletisis., 3. F. myso- 

 retisis ; 4. F. tomentosa ; 5. F. altissimaj 9. F. nervosa; 15. 

 F. callosa. 

 L. with very close-set veins : — 6. F. Trimeni ; 7. F. caudiciilata ; 

 8. F. reticsa. 

 tt Petiole long (1-6 in.), often obscurely jointed on the blade: — 

 10. F. Arnotiianaj 11. F. Mooniana; 12. F. Tjakelaj 

 13. F. Tsicla ; 14. F. infectoria. 



3. Sycidium. Small trees, shrubs, or climbers ; recepts. small, solitary, 



or binate in the I. axils or at the scars of fallen 1. ; basal bracts 

 minute or o: — 16. F. heterophylla; 17. F. asperrima. 



4. Covelli.\. Shrubs or trees, never climbers ; recepts. clustered on 



special arrested branches near the base of the trunk, or on cauline 

 or rameal tubercles ; basal bracts 3 : — 18. F. hispida. 

 ** Fl. di-tri-androus. 



5. Eusyce. Erect or scandent shrubs or trees ; recepts. subsolitary, 



axillary, small ; basal bracts 3 : — 19. F. Thiuaitesii ; 20. F. IcEvis. 



6. Neomorphe. Trees ; recepts. on short arrested branches, or on 



cauline or rameal tubercles; basal bracts 3: — 21. F. glomerata. 



I. P. parasitica, Koen. ex Willd. in Mem. Acad. Berol. 1798, 102 

 (1801). Gas-netul, Wel-^hdtu. 5. 



Thw. Enum. 266. F. gibbosa, BL, var. ttiberculata, King, Fie. 6. 

 C P. 2227. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 496 {F. gibbosa). Wight, Ic. t. 651 {F. tuberculata). 

 King, Fie. tt. 2 A, 2 B. 



An epiphyte in a young state, finally a tree with spreading 

 branches ; 1. oblong or oval to lanceolate, obtuse acute or 

 subcaudate, smooth or scaberulous on both surfaces, base 

 acute, veins 3-7 pairs, spreading, prominent, basal pair con- 

 spicuous ; stip. lanceolate, about as long as the short petiole ; 

 recepts. axillary, solitary or binate, peduncled, pyriform, \ in. 



