Ficus.) ,* CIX. URTICEZ. 177 
anden; wes foliage and branches more or less sprinkled or covered with 
shor airs. Leaves all opposite, broadly riens een or 
erneath, the primary veins distant, prominent underneath as well 
as the transverse veinlets, the basal ies died oblique. Receptacles either 
in pairs in the lower axils or more frequently in leafless clusters or 
se olin. 
diameter, * white," more or less hirsute. Male flowers amongst the 
larger bracts near the orifice, the segments brown-hyaline, very broad, 
each one completely enveloping the next in the bud. Female perianth 
38 ; Covellia oppositifolia Gan, du diy ia iyaka quoted 
P Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 296. 
ustralia. Brien ck Bay, N. W. t, A. Cunnin 
nsla nd. Northu saben islands jut Broad Soun i pi Brown joiner in 
but VR this species); Rockingham and Edgecombe bays, D 
Wanie el iptical, } scebrilial sinuate-crenate, rounded 
contracted or slightly Seale at e base, 8 to 10 in. long and 4 tod 
broad in some specimens, much smaller in others, the distant primary 
and often depressed at the dite Bracts within the reri 
inute excepting near the orifice. Male flowers few under the inner- 
most developed d miy like those of F. hispida. Female 
pem genos Fitzroy river, Bowman, Thozet, Dallachy. 
one Leaves here and there Spposite and branch hollow as d £ 
hing t with the small 6-ribbed receptacles of F. fascicu 
NA river, Dallachy. 
. 838. F. casearia, F. Muell. Herb. A tree with a broad 
head, quite glabrous. Leaves alternate, on petioles of } to To jms or onis 
_ or elliptical, acuminate, entire, rounded or cun — — 
: v in. long, 13 to 2} in. broad, membranous, not scabrous, the TE 
p pr "uii veins distant, slightly prominent dudes) the ved voli ne 
