176 CIX. URTICEÆ. [ Ficus. 
all obtuse or acuminate, entire or very slightly RON e dug C very 
scabrous Mw distantly penniveined with the lowest pair starting 
from very near the or: " transverse veinlets and EA EORR pro- 
minent unde E; e barren branches the leaves are hastately 
9-lobed with 1 Gag. poe eatttral por 2 short lateral lobes. 
Cent ts u laity at some distance from the fig, but saset aloit to it. 
Flowers entirely those of F. orbiculata.—F. indecora, Miq. in Journ. 
Bot. Neerl. 1861, 242, as to the.specimens from Clarence river. 
Queensland. rod sap: and Shoalwater bays and Broad Sound, R. Brown ; e 
river, Priest Rodd’ A. Cunningham; estuary of the Burdekin, F. Mueller 
me Denison, Fitzalan ; Rockingham bay, Dallachy ; Rockhampton, Bowman. 
. S. Wal New England, C. Stuart; Clarence river, Beckler. 
0. F. scobina, Benth. A shrub or small tree of 8 to 20 ft., re- 
4 ? 
and irregularly bii tee at the end, the At primary Veins 
and transverse reticulate veinlets prominent underneath, without any 
distinct basal pair of veins. Mi ga mostly solitary, globose, the 
largest on our specimens 4 lines diameter, scabrous like the rest of the 
plant, but without hairs, the iod Wi ts small and scale-like, either 
close under the r receptacle or along the short pene: e flowers 
nt near the orifice. Perianth-segments of both sexes narrow an 
ual, and as well as the bracts white-hyaline as in F. orbiculata. 
ecc 1 with a large peeled anther, and sometimes a ed smaller 
one. Style glabrous, with a terminal ene or i vel stigma. 
N. Australia. Lizard island, € ningham ; sington, Lei Mardi; 
ih Darwin n, rne . 6, 410, 499.— -although wird de some sapeva 2A e three 
short petioles, s, that it can scarcely be det ered as a variety only, ce dia vote identi ntiy it 
with any of the Indian scabrous species to which it bears some resembla: 
= a —Male perianth of 3 or 4 broad E 
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few hairs, short, with a peltate or oblique stigma. Leaves sal hg 
the stipular scar prominent. Receptacles chiefly on the old wo 
31. F. hispida, Linn. f. Suppl. 449. A small tree, remarkable for 
the young branches, when luxuriant, very hollow and contracted at tlie 
