Plates 2533 and 2534. 



FICUS HETEROMORPHA, Hem*l 



Urticacex. Tribe Artocarpe.e. 

 F. (§ Eusyce) heteromorpha, Hemsl. (*/>. nov.) ; interspecies sinenses 



ob folia per-variabilia insignis. 



Fratex a 1 ped. fructitieans, sod interdum arborescens, usque ad 20 

 ped. altus, rarais floriferis f ructiferisque glabris vel cito glabrescentibus, 

 mortice rubescente. Folia saepius longe graciliterque petiolata, tenuia, 

 lanceolata, oblonga, ovata vel elliptica, cum petiolis usque ad 9 poll, 

 longa, integra, paucidentata, obsolete trilobata, infra medium distincte 

 eonstricta vel interdum alte trilobata, sinibus latis, lobo terminali 

 multo majore, basi cuneata, rotundata, vel cordata, apice gradatim vel 

 subite acuminata, subtus primum puberula, supra leviter scabrida. 

 Receptftrula sessilia vel subsessilia, glabra, lsevia, srepius in axillis 

 foliorum gerainata, ovoidea vel sphyeroidea, 5-7 lin. longa (? matura 

 non visa). Inrohicri bracterp parvae, persistentes. Braciea. ad os recep- 

 taculi ? erect;e. Pprianthivm o-partitum, segmentis linearibus. Flares 

 masculini lomre nedicellati. triandri. 



globoso stipitato. Flares J\ 



Flores gcdlipari sessiles, ovario 



China : various localities in the provinces of Kiangsi, Hupeh, and 

 Szechuen, A. Henry, 1933, 3439, 3924, 3965, 5541, 6362. »i550. 7443 ; 

 T. L. Bullock, 227,' 22H ; A. E. Pratt, 719. 



The leaves of this species are exceedingly variable, but there is 

 almost always a trace, though sometimes very obscure, of the lobing 

 which is so fully developed in the principal figure in plate 2533. There 

 is less variability in the receptacles, which are always sessile, and the 

 smooth bark is usually of a red- brown colour. Mr. Bullocks 227 

 (plate 2534), bearing female flowers, was only a foot high ; and Mr. 



Henry describes his 5541, bearing male receptacles, as a shrub two feet 

 high. On the other hand, his 7443, whi^h is very much like Mr. 

 Bullock's 228, of which a leaf is represented in plate 2534, is described 



