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



fleshy, tubular, 4- toothed ; stamen 1, anther broad; pistil globose, insect-attacked. 

 Gall fl . pedicelled, perianth of the male; achene subglobose, smooth ; style short, 

 lateral ; stigma capitate. Fern. fl. (in globose receptacles without male fl.) ; perianth 

 hairy, gamophyllous, with 4 long teeth; achene oblong; style lateral; stigma 

 elongate. Truly dioecious. The ovoid receptacles with male fl. and gall fl. occur 

 ouly in the erect shrubby form ; those with globose receptacles bear only fern, fl., and 

 are semi-scandent epiphytes. 



4. F. parletalis, Blume Bijd. 462 (excl. var.) ; branchlets 1 receptacles 

 petioles and under surfaces of the leaves rusty-pubescent sometimes rather 

 scaberulous, leaves coriaceous petioled elliptic -oblong -ovate or rarely -obo- 

 vate sometimes inequilateral rather abruptly and shortly caudate mar- 

 gins entire revolute, base rounded obtuse acute or subcordate 3-5-nerved, 

 receptacles peduncled axillary in pairs (solitary by abortion) globose or 

 ovoid tapering towards the ebracteate base rather strongly umbonate 

 especially when young hispid-tomentose, ripe - in. diam. yellow or orange, 

 peduncles hispid about i in. sometimes with 2 or 3 small ovate-acute bracts 

 at their base. King Fie. 10, t. 8 ; Miq. Flur. i. ii. 307. F. Junghuhniana and 

 F. rufipila, Miq. PI. Jungh. 56, 57. F. concentrica. Van Has. in Miq. Choix 

 PI. Buitenz. t. 11. F. cerasiformis, Desf. Cat. Sort. Paris Ed. 3,^413; 

 Miq. in L. J. B. vii. 428 ; Lemaire III. Sortie, v. t. 167. F. acuminata, 

 Sot. Mag. t. 3282 (not of Roxl).). F. phlebophylla and F. Tabiug, Miq. 

 Flor. Suppl. 430. F. grandifolia, Wall. 'Cat. 4525 ; Miq. in L. J. B. I. c. 

 432. 



PENAN& and SINGAPOEE, Wallich. PEEAK, Kunstler, Wray. DISTEIB. Malay 

 Islands. 



A shrub or tree, often epiphytal. Leaves 3-12 in., glabrous smooth and shin- 

 ing above, beneath much paler and when young covered with short straight hairs, 

 many or all of which disappear with age, leaving the under surface hard, sub- 

 scaberulous, glabrous or glabrescent ; nerves 23 pairs, nervules transverse, re- 

 ticulations distinct, all prominent beneath ; petiole \-\ in., stout, hispid-pubescent ; 

 stipules small, ovate, acute, hirsute, about in. long. Malefl. few, under the oval 

 bracts with the gall flowers ; perianth gamophyllous, lobes 5, narrow, elongate ; 

 stamen 1, base of filament adnate to the pedicel of a pistillode. Gall fl. large, 

 founded; perianth of the male; style short, lateral; stigma dilated. Fern. Jl. 

 with a gamophyllous perianth deeply divided into three linear-lanceolate segments 

 ne reniform-ovoid ; style rather long, subterminal, stigma cylindric. Allied 

 . urophylla, but is a much larger species. The receptacles with male and gall 

 aro slightly larger and more umbonate than those with female flowers. 



5. F. urophylla. Wall. Cat. 4483; young branches and petioles 

 rfy .or subscabrid when dry, leaves subcoriaceous broadly ovate or 



ovate-elliptic abruptly caudate usually entire or sinuate towards the apex, 

 base always entire gradually narrowed to the petiole 3-nerved, receptacles 

 in. diam. shortly peduncled axillary subglobose umbonate scabrid- 

 Lispid wi%out basal bracts reddish-yellow when ripe, peduncle in. 

 hispid-iursute. King Fie. ii. t. 9. 



.' ASSAM, the KHASIA MTS., CHITTAGONG, BTTEMA and PERAET. 



An erect shrub or small tree. Leaves 2^4 in., smooth and shining above, 

 (dull and harsh beneath; nerves 2 or 3 pairs, and midrib bold and harsh beneath; 

 petwtfj^J in. ; stipules subulate, minute. Malefl.; sepals 4; stamen 1, invariably 

 jointed to a pistillode. Fern fl. ; perianth 3-cleft ; achene obliquely ovoid, rough ; 

 style short, diverging. Qallfl.', achene smooth, globose ; style short, slightly hooked. 

 This and F. rostrata, Lamk., afford an excellent example of agreement in externals 

 ' with considerable differences in the flowers. 



F. celebica, Blume Bijd. 461; branchlets hirsute, leaves mem- 



