Ficus, | CIX. URTICER. 175 
s. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, Woolls, Miss Atkinson ; 
oiu s river, R. Brow Maitland, Backhouse ; Clarence d Hastings rivers, 
w Englan : Sturt; southward to Illaw npn ncc and 
ubglabra. rpm of the receptacle so short as to he tates at vin sight 
Sein n. Brisbane river, F. Mueller; Hunter's river, R. Brown 
eth with few distant primary veins, and 3-nerved from the 
prominence of the basal pair, the vetivaldté veinlets fine and little con- 
u i a 
pubescent, Su nae bracts smal m scale- like, 1 or 2 usually on 
d peri i 
peltate stigm 
. . Lond. diim: vii. 196 ud Hei not pare so "hend 
and F. Bee kla j| Miq. in Journ. Bot, Neerl 1861, 241 (as to the 
N. ^ dude epee es). 
a. Careening bay, Hevlerhy. i ind and Denies A N.W. 
Cond, ri ose Bai King ud nd, H: Hugha ; Nichol bay, Gregory's Expedition ; 
Victoria and Fitzmaurice rivers, P. Mueller ; Port Darwin, Suits, n. i. 307. 
+ aculea 
tall Shrub , Very pont ‘allied oF : P. orbicularis and per erha aps a variety, 
e 
_ tomentose, the margins more aculeate. Receptacles rather larger and 
Pa MEINT ST piper or hirsute, on exceedingly short peduncles, 
uth Goulburn island, A + Cunningham; Nichol bay, Ridley's 
RS ee ; Kings Sound and Collier bay, ‘Chapman 
Var. mi F. micracantha, Miq. in Ann. 
Mus. Laat Bat. ii 221. "Iolandsof the Gulf espina R. Brown, Hen nue, Gul- 
. liver ; Cairncross island, Z, Mueller. 
29. F. sita, Miq. in Hook, Lond. Journ. vii. 426. A tall shrub or 
. Small tr BAL ha Tout Brkiehof and underside of the leaves softly and 
. den ia pubescent. Leaves mostly opposite, exceedingly v variable in 
. Size and shape, in the typical specimens broadly cordate-ovate and 
. about 2 in. long on deber s not exceeding $in., in others ovate, ovate- 
1 oblong, or ovate-lanceolate, 6 to 8in. long, on petioles of 4 to lin., 
