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308 — CIX. URTICER. . [ Ficus. 
fallen away from almost all the specimens seen. Male flowers inter- 
mixed with the females towards the orifice; perianth stipitate 3-merous, 
with one mie ant se with hun cells. Female flowers nearly 
i! Australia. tale z pa Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Bea Range, F. 
F. Mueller Sangune t two varieties, Moran in which the nuc are about 
4 lines, and macrocarpa, in which they are fully 6 lines diameter; but o xamination 
peo — appear to be iit yet fu ‘grown, w A the wers in bud aid only just ex- 
a central cavity ; “whilst e larger the fruits are ripe, com- 
pletely ‘ling uel receptacle, The bracts subtnding the (Der appear to be larger 
this than in any i, eg Australian spec 
12. F. rubigin Osa, Desf.; Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 114. <A tree of con- 
“siderable size, with o ading branches, throwing out woody roots, 
cordate at the base, 3 to 4 in. tds and 2 to 24 broad w 
u 
K s. Wa les. p Jackson Blue Mountains ag to several her barið, 4 
but no collector's name given; Hu nter's river, A. Brown; New As gla nd, C. Stuarts 
Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beckler ; rd Howe's re CM 
d of the 
It is by some mpa that Mignel has yeee the pun of Venen an n 
Botanical Magazine as F. ferruginea; they are both correctly named F. rubi ‘gn eu 
eB i R4 
F. ferruginea, Desf, mi published m a er Moy species, ‘which Miquel lier 
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