172 CIX. URTICER. a 
the dd vede nd tior Li in. and broader in proportion. 
globular or ae turbinate, 14 to 2in. diameter. Male flowers not 
seen. Style glabrous, with an oblique terminal Ver fe lanceolate 
stigma.— F. stipulata, Thunb. Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vii. 439. 
iy ? ,^ specimen in Herb. F. Mueller, without station, is n * The 
Wide rl creeper." 
. Wa Hunter's river, C. Moo 
The Maid as limited by Piera. bif indk | over the Indian Arehipelago to South 
China, but fruiting specimen: rare in herbaria, and in several localities it is an 
ied plant... Whether the: ‘Australis n specimens are really fndigonons may be in 
some measure uncertain. The closely allied F. erecta, Thunb., sometimes regarded as 
a variety only, extends over Pig Asia genera T 
onulata, F. n Journ. Bot. Neerl 1861, E 
aes. below the leaves, on pedicels i to lis in., am contracted into 
a short neck formed as in F. dde a by the erect braets of the broad 
orifice, becoming at length nearly globular and nearly iy diameter. 
Tries within the receptacle and perianths white-hyali Male flowers 
not seen. Style Aia bronsi with a terminal oblique slightly dilated 
stigma.—F. salicina, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 49. 
N. Australia. iiri and Fitzmaurice rivers, F. Mueller. 
toclada, Benth. A “beautiful tree of about 40 ft." with 
. F. lepto 
E branches, quite glabrous. Leaves Seg nek We acuminate, 
entire, cuneate at the base, 2 to 4 in ae , 2 tol road, not 
rigid ; 
usually solitary, globular, 3 to 4 lines diameter, E bracts of the orifice 
sho t deo ad neck, the external Tb mall and scale-like 
cle. 
dilated at ene apex into a short oblique or almost peltate stigma. 
could find no male flowers in the two receptacles I Low 
ennt Rockingham bay, Dallachy. 
ssa, Benth. A tree, quite glabrous. Leaves alternate; 
on dite petioles of $ in. or more, obovate-oblong, about 3 in. long 1 
