EUREN ERI. 
3 ditions, 
Ficus.] CIX. URTICER. 169 
been of CMS origin ; but Bureau refers it tothe true F. rubiginosa. e spe- 
cimens from Lor owe's island were received under the ms. name of F. columnaris, 
accompanied by a sketch of the habit of the tree with its grove of columnar adventive 
roots; but I can find nothing to distinguish them from the N. S. Wales F. m 
3. F. puberula, A. Cunn.; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 987. 
A tree with the habit of F. platypoda, and apparently almost as EUER 
in the leaves, rather large and broad o ller and narrower, always 
obtuse or shortly and obtusely ac amaina; ON: glabrous or very 
slightly pubescent, and not ferruginous, wit venation of F. 
Receptacles globular and smooth, about 4 to 5 lines diameter, like 
those of F. platypoda but on peduncles of 3 to 4 lines, and usual] 
distinctly umbonate.— Urostigma puberu lum, Miq. in ond. 
Journ. vi. 562, t. 93; U. Meses Mi Journ. Bot. Neerl. 1861, 
2 ET vum Miq. in Ann. sue ia Bat. iii. 288. 
York Sound, mir coast, A. Cunningham; Port Walcot, C. 
Nds ; ene river, F. Mueller. 
14. F. platypoda, A. Cunn. ; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 987. 
A small tree of robust growth, perfeetly glabrous in all its parts in the 
typieal form, more or less pubescent in several varieties, but not 
ferruginous. Leaves in the typical form on broad petioles of about 
3 in., ovate, oneness entire, "d a slightly cuneate at the base, or 
the lower nes almost cordate, 24 to 4 in. long, and 2 to 23 broad, 
thickly an ead, with numerous E parallel primary veins, the 
i e bas 
Stigma linear-subulate and acute, or sometimes in the same receptacle 
shorter and more obtuse.— Urostigma platypodum, Miq. in Hook. Lond. 
Journ. vi. 561, 
- Australia. York Sound and Vansittart’s Bay, A. Cunningham. 
The following forms may some of them, when better known, prove to be sufficiently 
distinct to be received as species :— 
a the typical form except that the ends of 
he bran and petioles a ubescent, and the under surface of the leaves also 
slightly so; the petioles artien p7 short Urostigma nocau iq. in Journ. 
Bot. Neerl. 1861 238. icu in Ann. Mus. Lugd. "Bat. iii. 287.— 
ane je ralia, Baudin's Fapidion pte de ke N.W. Un; Port Darwin, Schultz, 
Var. ? minor, Mi iq. Glabrous. Leaves elliptical-oblong, 2 to 3 in. long and 1 to o1 
a AM petioles rather longer than in the typical form and the receptacles on 
rt pedu 
ustralia. N.W. Coast, Bynoe; Nicol Bay, Gregory's and Ridley’s E. 
Var. ? petiola Gl lly larger than in the typical form, on 
Petioles of pe i A sii e Onde rors jn, y nel sea AU Sel, 6h short 
