Fzcus.] Urticacea^, 95 



recepts. axillary, binate or fascicled on tubercles or shoots of 

 the old wood, turbinate or subpyriform, \-\ in. diam., hispid, 

 with sometimes adnate lateral bracts, umbilicus rather large ; 

 ped, ^-| in,, basal bracts, 3 ; male fl., sep. 3, concave, hyaline,. 

 stam. I, fil. broad; gall and fert. fern. fl. pedicelled, naked; 

 achene ovoid, style long, hairy, stigma cylindric, tubular. 



Low country to 3000 ft. ; common. Fl. Nov., Dec, July. Fr. yellowish. 

 India, Malaya, China, Australia. 



19. P. Thwaltesii, Miq. Ann. Mus. iii. 229 (1867). 



Fl. Zeyl. n. 438 {Oxycoccoidcs). F. sfipulata. Moon, Cat. 74 (non 

 Thunb.). F. diversiformis, Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 441 ; Thw. 

 Enum. 266. F. disiicha, Thw. Enum. 266 (non BL). King, Fie. 125. 

 C. P. 2217, 2224, 31 16. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 525. King, Fie, t. 159, f. B. 



A dimorphous plant ; stem of young plant filiform, creep- 

 ing, appressed to the bark of trees or to rocks, of old erect, 

 stout, shrubby, with tomentose branches ; 1. of young state 

 distichous, appressed to the bark, ^-i^ in. long, oblong, obtuse^ 

 entire or 3-lobed, base cordate or hastate ; of mature plant 

 1-4 in., oval ovate or obovate, obtuse, coriaceous, subscabrid 

 above, tessellately reticulate with pubescent veins beneath, 

 veins 2-4 pair, strong, basal pair short ; petiole xV~i i^i. ; 

 stip. binate, ovate, acuminate, scarious ; recepts. subsolitary, 

 axillary, globose or oblong, about \ in. diam., narrowed into 

 a slender ped. about | in. long ; bracts 3, above the middle or 

 at the top of the ped., small, broadly obovate; male, gall, 

 and fert. fem. fl. mixed ; sep. 2-3, short, broadly obovate ; 

 anth. 2, much longer than the sep.; achene obliquely ovoid,, 

 shining, of the gall fl. ridged. 



Climbing over rocks and trees in the moist region up to 5000 ft. ;. 

 rather common. Colombo; Hantane ; Allogula ; Matale ; Dolosbagie ; 

 Hunasgiriya; Morowak Korale. Fl. March, September. Fr. pale pinkish- 

 yellow or nearly white. 



Endemic. 



The slender creeping rooting stems look very unlike the free fruiting 

 branches, and are the F. dwersiformis, Miq. (C. P. 2217). This is the 

 earliest name for the species, but it was given merely to the barren 

 stems. 



20. r. laevis, Bl. Bijd. 437 (1825), var. dasyphylla, King, Fie. 128. 

 Pogonotrophe dasyphylla^ Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 74 ; Thw. 



Enum. 266. P. ccylanica, Miq. 1. c. 75. F. ceylanica, Miq. Ann. Mus. iii. 

 293 ; Trim. Syst. Cat. 84. C. P. 233. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 526. King, Fie. t. 161. 



A powerful epiphyte, young parts pubescent ; 1. 4-7 in., 

 orbicular or broadly oblong, abruptly caudate, entire or 

 subserrate towards the tip, glabrous above, beneath appressed 



