G43 ex VI. uKTiC'ACB.i;. 



abruptl)' aud narrowly acuminate, the acumen |-1 in. long, with entire 

 slightly undulate and revolute margins, shining on both surfaces, the 

 lower minutely tuberculate, base narrowed (rarely rounded), subequi- 

 hiteral, 3-5-nerved, lateral main nerves 7-10 pairs, nearly at right 

 angles to the midrib, prominent beneath ; petioles |-| in. long; stipules 

 lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, membranous, puberulous, about g in. long. 

 Receptacles pedunculate in pairs, axillary, slightly verrucose when young, 

 when ripe yellow, depressed-globose, \-^ in. in diam., puberulous; 

 peduncles |-| in. long, slender, pubescent ; bracts at base of re- 

 ceptacle 0, at base of peduncle 3, small, ovate-rotund, pubescent. 

 Male flowers few, only near the mouth of the receptacle. Sepals 2, 

 unequal, spathulate. Stamen 1 ; anther single, attached by a filament as 

 long as itself to one of the sepals. Gall flowers sessile or pedicellate. 

 Sepals 3, elongate, acuminate. Ovary ovoid, smooth ; style short. 

 Fertile flowers usually sessile. Sepals 3, lanceolate. Achenes ovoid, 

 acuminate. Style twice as long as the achene ; stigma clavate. Fl. B. I. 

 v. 5, p. 512 ; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. p. ccxxiii ; King, Sp. Fie. 

 p. 53, t. 65; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 89; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. 328 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (i85)U) p. 515 ; Prain, Beng. 

 PI. p. 974. — Fruit ripe Feb. 



Konkan: Stocks], Law'. Deccan: IjunoW, Woodrow. Kanaka: eyergreen forests of 

 N. Kanara from Supa southwards, Talbot; Ivadgal (N. Kanara), Talbot, 245! — 

 DiSTRiB. India (Sikkim and Bhutan Himalaya, Khasia, Assam, Uirma, W. Peninsula); 

 Ceylon, Malayan Peninsula aud Archipelago, China. 



Tlie figure 660 in Wight's ' Icones ' bas been incorrectly cited by Sir Gr. King(Z. c.) 

 and in tbe 'Flora of British India' as Ficns nervosa. The figure in the 'Icones' is 

 that of Ficiis ajKju.-ififolia, 'Ruxh. {non F. glaberrima, 'Blumt). Wight's figure agrees 

 with Roxburgh's unpublished drawing. 



In the 'Flora of Britisli India' {I. c.) a curious mistake occurs which has been 

 perpetuated in Trimen's ' Plora of Ceylon' (/. c). The leaves are said to be ^-1 in. 

 lot'g. Sir G. King (/. c.) describes the acumen of the leaves as |-1 in. long, and this 

 measurement has been apparently taken for the blade in the publications named. 



8. Ficus Rumphii, Bhme, Bijdr. (1825) p. 437, A moderate-sized 

 deciduous tree at lirst usually epiphytic, all parts glabrous. Leaves 

 subcoriaceous, 3-6 by 2-3f in., broadly ovate, with an acumen -l-^ as 

 long as the blade, and entire subundidate margins, glabrous, shining, 

 base broad, truncate, slightly narrowed towards the petiole (rarely 

 subcordate), 5-nerved ; lateral main nerves 3-6 pairs, rather irregular, 

 prominent only in the young leaves which are red just after unfolding, 

 the venation between the nerves finely reticulate ; petioles 2|-3,4 in. 

 long ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, |-1 in. long. Eeceptacles sessile, in 

 pairs, axillary or from old scars, globular, not depressed at the apex, 

 smooth, I in. in diam. when ripe, when young whitish with dark spots, 

 when ripe nearly black ; basal bracts 3, rotund, small. Male flowers 

 few, only near the mouth of the receptacle. Sepals 3, ■ spathulate. 

 Stamen 1 ; anther single on a filament as long as itself. Gai,l and 

 FEiiTiLE flowers: Sepals 3, lanceolate; gall ovary smooth, usually 

 ohovoid. Achenes minutely tuberculate, mucilaginous. Style in both 

 elongate ; stigma clavate. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 512; Xing, Sp. Fie. p. 54, 

 t. 67 B & t. 84, fig. T; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 328; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 515; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 974; 

 AVatt, Diet. Fcon. Prod. v. 3, p. 361. Ficus conUfolia, lioxb. Fl. Ind! 

 v. 3 (1832) p. 548 (not of Blume); AVight, Icon. t. 640. Urosiigma 



