504 cxxxvi. URTICACEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ficue, G. King. 



margins entire revolute when dry, receptacles in axillary pairs or solitary 

 sessile cylindro-conical base truncate, apex umbonate, ripe smooth bright 

 red with faint white spots l|-2 in. long by 1 broad at base, basal bracts 3 

 spreading broadly triangular pubescent. King Fie. 29, t. 28, 82' ; Miq. 

 Ann. iii. 286. Urostigma xylophyllum, Mia. in L. J. B. vi. 577 : Flor. i. ii. 

 352, t. 23. 



PERAK, PENANG and SINGAPORE, WallicTi, &c. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



A powerful epiphyte or small tree. Leaves 6-10 by 3-4 in. ; nerves about 

 6 pairs, prominent below, reticulations inconspicuous ; petiole stout, about 1-1 J in. ; 

 stipules 1 in., coriaceous, broadly ovate, acute, shortly reddish pubescent, or with 

 broad smooth margins. Male/I, numerous, scattered over the whole interior of the 

 receptacle, pedicelled ; sepals 4 ; anther 1, elongate, sessile. Gall fl. subsessile or 

 pedicelled ; sepals 5 ; ovary smooth ; style elongate. Fem.fl. sessile ; achene minutely 

 tubercled ; perianth degenerate into cellular tissue. 



19. T. altissima, Blume Bijd. 444; young parts puberulous, ulti- 

 mately all glabrous except the external surface of the stipules, leaves 

 coriaceous petioled broadly ovate-elliptic rarely ovate-lanceolate shortly 

 obtusely cuspidate entire, base rounded rarely narrowed occasionally slightly 

 unequal never cordate 3-5-nerved, receptacles sessile axillary in pairs 

 enveloped when young in early deciduous calyptriform bracts ovoid smooth, 

 ripe f-1 in. long lake-red or yellowish, basal bracts 3 short broad obtuse 

 united at the base pubescent or puberulous. King Fie. 30, t. 30, 31, 82, 82 il ; 

 Miq. Ann. iii. 285 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 442. F. laccifera, JRoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 

 645 ; Wight Ic. t. 656 ; Brand. For. Fl. 418 ; Kurz I. c. 441 ; Bedd. For. 

 Man. 223 ; Wall. Cat. 4559 F, 4560 (in part}. Urostigma altissimum, 

 Miq. in Zoll. Syst. Verz. 90 and 96 ; Flor. i. ii. 349. U. lacciferum, Miq. in 

 L. J. B. vi. 575. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Nepal to Bhotan, and in the plains and lower hills 

 of the DECCAN PENINSULA, and from ASSAM to Burma, the Malay Peninsula, and 

 the Andaman Islands. CEYLON common. DISTRIB. Malay Islands. 



A large spreading tree, with few aerial roots. Leaves 4-7 in.; nerves 5 or 6 

 pairs, distinct; petiole f-l i n - ; stipules 1-lf in., very coriaceous, lanceolate, greyish 

 pubescent. Male ft. scattered all over the interior of the receptacles, pedicelled ; 

 sepals 4 ; anther subsessile. Gall and/em, fl. with a similar garnophyllous deeply 

 4-clet't perianth ; ovary of the gall fl. smooth, of the fern, minutely tubercled ; style 

 in both elongate ; gall fl. sometimes pedicelled; fern, usually sessile. After much 

 consideration, I cannot but regard F. laccifera, Roxb., as a northern form of altissima, 

 best distinguished by its larger, thinner leaves. 



VAR. Fergussoni ; leaves narrower often narrowed at the base, nerves 9-12 pairs 

 closer, receptacles smaller subglobose. Ceylon, Thwaites (C.P. 2221). Named after 

 my friend, Mr. W. Fergusson, F.L.S., an indefatigable botanist. It is peculiar to 

 Ceylon, and, as Dr. Trimen informs me, certainly indigenous. 



20. F. Xiowii, King Fie. 32, t. 33, 82 U ; young branches and stipules 

 covered with a deciduous brown scurf, ultimately all parts glabrous, leaves 

 very coriaceous oblong or elliptic rather suddenly and shortly cuspidate, 

 margins thickened strongly revolute, base rounded or tapering slightly to 

 the petiole strongly 3-nerved, midrib very prominent, receptacles crowded 

 sessile in axillary pairs globose with a broad flat apical mammilla, apical 

 bracts 3 flat, ripe about f in. diam. yellow with purplish spots, basal bracts 3 

 rather small broad coriaceous. 



PERAZ, Wray, Kunstler. 



A powerful climber. Leaves 5-8 in. ; nerves about 6 pairs, not prominent, reti- 

 culations obscure; beneath dull whitish, above smooth rather dull; petiole stout, 



