328 URTiCEifl. [Ficus. 



In the Happy Valley woods, Champion ; also Hance and Wright. In SiLhet and Assam, 

 and perhaps in the Indian Peninsula. 



5. F. Championi, Benlh. in Kew Joarn. Bot. vi. 76. A tree, perfectly 

 glabrous, the foliage of a pale-green. Leaves elliptical or obovate-oblong, 

 obtuse or obtusely acuminate, 2 to 3 in. long, narrowed towards the base, on 

 petioles of 3 or 4 lines, coriaceous, smooth and shining ; the primary veins 

 nearly transverse, connected within the margin, prominent on both sides, 

 especially underneath, as well as the smaller ones. Figs globular, 5 or 6 lines 

 diameter, on rather slender pedicels of 4 to 6 lines, with 3 minute bracts 

 about 1 line below the top. 



In woods of the Happy Valley, Champion; also Wright. Not known out of the island, 

 but very near to the F. vasculosa, Wall., from Penang and the Malayan Peninsula. 



6. F. pyriformis, Hook, and Am. Bot. Beech. 216 {not of Miq.). A 

 shrub, the young branches pubescent. Leaves from oblong-lanceolate to nar- 

 row-lanceolate, 2 to 4 in. long, wdth an obtuse narrow point, quite glabrous, 

 pale or whitish underneath ; the primary veins transverse, connected very near 

 the margin, and, as well as the reticulate veins, darker-coloured but not pro- 

 minent. Petioles 1 to 2 lines, glabrous. Figs pear-shaped, 1 in. long or even 

 more when full-grown, much contracted at the base. Peduncles 3 to 4 lines 

 long, bracteate near the top. — F. Millettii, Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 438. 



Common in watercourses, Champion and others. On the Chinese continent, and a long- 

 leaved variety or closely allied species in Assam and Sikkim. Two distinct Chinese species 

 had been laid down in the Uookerian Herbarium as the F. pyriformis ; but Miquel, in sepa- 

 rating them, had unfortunately omitted to compare them with the character given in the 

 Botany of Beechey's Voyage, and has given Hooker and Arnott's name to the hairy-leaved 

 instead of to the glabrous one. 



7. F. variolosa, Lindl.; Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 492. A gla- 

 brous shrub (or tree?). Leaves oblong or elliptical, obtuse or shortly and 

 obtusely acuminate, 2 to 3 in. long, with the venation of F. pyriformis. Pe- 

 tiole 3 to 5 lines long. Fruit nearly globular, 4 or 5 lines' diameter (ovoid 

 when young), more or less umbonate at the top. Pedicel about 2 lines, 

 bracteate at the top. Stigma obliquely truncate or notched. 



Common in ravines, Hinds, Champion, and others. Not known out of S. China. 



8. F. impressa, Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. vi. 76. A prostrate or 

 creeping much branched shrub, glabrous, except a slight pubescence on the 

 young branches. Leaves distichous, oblong or elliptical, obtuse, entire, 1 to 

 \\ or rarely 2 in. long, stiff but not scabrous, 3-nerved with short lateral 

 nerves, and rounded at the base, the primary veins arcuate and prominent 

 underneath. Figs globular, 3 or 4 lines diameter, on pedicels of 1 or 2 lines, 

 bracteate at the top. Style short, w r ith a dilated unilateral stigma. 



In ravines, creeping over rocks, Champion, Wright, Wilford. Not known out of the 

 island. 



9. F. stipulata, Thunb.; Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 439? A pros- 

 trate or creeping shrub like the last, with similar leaves, except that they are 

 deeply cordate at the base, either very unequally or nearly equally so. Fruits 

 said to be large, pear-shaped or turbinate, bristly when young, then glabrous. 



Hongkong, Champion? A single barren specimen, is like the equally barren ones in the 

 Uookerian Herbarium, from S. China, determined by Miquel to be the F. stipulata, Thunb. 



