496 cxxxvi. URTICACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ficus, G. King, 



' Sect. VI. EUSYCE. Flowers unisexual ; male and gall fl. in one set of 

 receptacles ; fern. fl. in distinct sets (except F* Tkwaitesii). Male fl. diau- 

 drous (95 F. hirta is mono- triandrons, and 8ft F. Its-vis is often triandrous). 

 Scandent or erect shrubs or small trees, rarely epiphytes. Leaves not 

 scabrid or hispid. Receptacles small (except F. Icevis and vars. of F.foveo- 

 lata), axillary. 



* Scandent or creeping shrubs. Sp. 79-90 (see also 91). 

 ** Shrubs or trees. Sp. 91-103. 



Sect. VII. NEOMORPHE. Floivers unisexual, male and gall fl. in one 

 set of receptacles ; fern. fl. in a distinct set, smaller than the males. Male 

 fl. diandrous (F. Clarkei is triaudrous) ; perianth inflated, 3-4-sepalous. 

 Trees, rarely scandent shrubs, never epiphytal. Leaves alternate. Recep- 

 tacles often very large, in clusters from tubercles on the stem and larger 

 branches. Sp. 104-111. 



Sect. I. PALJEOMORPHE (see p. 495). 



1. F. pisifera, Wall. Cat. 4504; branchlets scabrid-hispid, leaves 

 shortly petioled membranous or subcoriaceous inequilateral subobovate or 

 elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate acuminate or cuspidate repand remotely 

 serrate-toothed or subentire along the upper margin and entire towards the 

 narrowed very unequal base, receptacles 4-10 together - in. diam. 

 peduncled mostly in the axils of fallen leaves globose scabrid or verruoulose, 

 basal bracts usually 0. King Fie. 3, t. 1 ; Miq. in L. J. B. vii. 427 ; Flor. 

 i. ii. 301. F. Tremblas (in part), Tadjam, & hypsophila (in part), Miq. 

 PI. Junah. 61, 62, 60 ; Flor. 1. c. 304, 312, t. xx. C and 303. F. grewiseflora, 

 Blume Bijd. 475 (in part] ; Miq. L c. 306. F. saxatilis, Miq. in Zoll. Syst. 

 92. F. acuminatissima, Miq. in L. J. B. I. c. 233. F. Tondana, Miq. Flor. 

 1. c. 305, and F. microtus, I. c. Suppl. 428. F. leucoxylon, Miq. PL Jungh. 

 61. ? F. erasperata, Roxb. FL 2nd. iii. 555.' 



PS2TANQ, PERAK and SINGAPORE, very common. DISTEIB. Malay Islands. 



A shrub or small tree. Leaves 4-7 in., subscabrid and punctulate beneath, above 

 smoother ; nerves 3-5 pairs and midrib prominent and puberulous beneath, reticu- 

 lations distinct ; stipules 2, -J in., lanceolate, puberulous, persistent. Recepts red 

 with yellow dots ; peduncle in., slender, scabrid, with sometimes 1-2 wart-like 

 bracts]' Male fl. near the top of the receptacle with gall flowers; sepals 4, united 

 at the .base ; stamen 1, with a pistillode. Gall fl. ; sepals 3, linear-lanceolate; ovary 

 obovoid, smooth, .stipitate ; style short, lateral, stigma clavate. Fern, fl.; calyx 

 deeply 4-cleft; achene ovoid; style subterminal, stigma capitate. Closely allied to 

 F. rostrtita, Lamk., but shrubby or arboreous, leaves more Siuequal-sided, receptacles 

 ,.t and nooiv generally peduncled. Most of Blume's grewiafolia are referable 

 to this, Wit a few belong to F. Ampelos, Burm., and I have hence adopted Wallich's 

 name. Probably Roxburgh's F. exasperat-a is this, judging from' a drawing in 

 's Icoties. If this was certain, his name would claim priority, but no 

 of .Roxburgh's plant appear to be extant. 



\ P. glbbosa, Blume Bijd. 466 ; branchlets scaberulous often 



d^U^^ft* petioled coriaceous usually inequilateral elliptic-ovate to 



^^^^^^^^Vblanceolate obtuse cuspidate or obtusely or acutely acuminate 



cntir juni-ate or obtuse 3-nerved ne^er rounded gibbous on one or 



Loth c< 1't.jjcles l-j in. or in pairs or fascicled axillary or from below 



the 1 .' 'luncliMl globose or clepressel-pyriformmammillate scabrid and 



verruculose yellow, umbilicus rather prominent, basal bracts 0, peduncle as 



