Ficus, G. King."} cxxxvi. URTICACEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) 505 



1-1 J in. ; stipules -1 in., ovate, acuminate, convolute. Malefl. over whole interior of 

 the receptacle, pedicels thick, sepals 4 ; anther 1, sessile, elongate. Gall fl. pedicelled 

 or sessile ; sepals 5, distinct ; ovary smooth j style elongate, lateral ; stigma elongate, 

 flat, bilobed. Fern. fl. sessile, globose, tubercled ; style long ; stigma clavate ; 

 perianth degenerating into a glairy cellular mass. A remarkable and very distinct 

 species. The leaves are very pale when dry. 



21. F. consociata, Blume Bijd. 447; young parts especially the 

 leaves beneath basal bracts and stipules densely covered with reddish-brown 

 floccnlent deciduous tomentum, otherwise glabrous, leaves coriaceous nar- 

 rowly elliptic or oblanceolate (broadly subobovate-elliptic in var. Murtoni) 

 with a rather short obtuse cusp entire, base narrowed 3-nerved, recep- 

 tacles crowded near the apices of the branches axillary sessile depressed- 

 spheroidal young flocculent ripe glabrous about %- f in. diam., apical bracts 

 flat shining, basal 3 broadly ovate keeled sometimes bifid. King Fie. 33, 

 t. 36, 37, 82 X . Urostigma consociatum, Miq. in Zoll. Syst. Verz. 91, and Flor. 

 i. ii. 337 ; Suppl. 177, 437 ; Ann. iii. 286. 



MALACCA, (var. Murtoni} Griffith (Kew Distrib. 593). PERAK, (var. Murtoni) 

 King's Collector. DISTRIB. Sumatra, Java. 



A large tree with aerial roots (Miguel). Leaves 3-7 by l-2 in. ; nerves 5-8 

 pairs, distinct, not very prominent ; petiole f-l in., stipules f-l in., membranous, 

 ovate-lanceolate, at first densely tomentose, ultimately glabrous, caducous. Male fl. 

 numerous, scnttered over the whole surface of the receptacle, pedicelled ; sepals 2, 

 concave ; anther single, sessile. Gall and fern. fl. similar, sessile, sepals 5. Gall 

 achene ovoid-reniform ; fern, achene broadly ovoid, tubercled. The perianth degene- 

 rates into gelatinous tissue. 



VAR. Murtoni ; all parts larger less flocculent, leaves subovately elliptic to ovate 

 obtuse base rounded or cordate, receptacles in. diam. Malacca and Perak. Inter- 

 mediate between Javan F. procera, Bl., and consociata, approaching the former in the 

 more or less ovate leaves, large receptacles, and smooth coriaceous basal bracts, and 

 to consociata in the tomentum. 



22. P. rig-ida, Miq. in Ann. Mus. iii. 280 ; perfectly glabrous, leaves 

 petioled coriaceous lanceolate acuminate or broadly oblanceolate shortly and 

 acutely cuspidate, margins entire recurved, base acute 3-nerved, receptacles 

 sessile in axillary pairs subglobose smooth \ in. diam., basal bracts 3 large 

 orbicular glabrous. Xing Fie. 35, t. 39, 82'. Urostigma rigidum, Miq. in 

 L. J. JB. vi. 578. 



PENANG, Phillips. Perak, Kunstler. 



A tree ?. Leaves 5|-6| in., dotted above ; nerves 3-4 pairs, prominent beneath, 

 reticulations fine; petiole f in., stout; stipules coriaceous, ovate-acuminate, in. 

 Male fl. numerous, scattered, pedicelled, clavate when unexpanded ; sepals 2, broad, 

 concave ; anther sagittate, filament short. Gall fl. sessile or pedicelled j sepals 3 ; 

 style short; achene ellipsoid. Fern. fl. sessile ; sepals 4 or 5, narrow; style elongate ; 

 achene tubercled. There are only two specimens of this at Kew, both with immature 

 receptacles. 



23. F. Hookeri, Miq. Ann. iii. 215, 286; glabrous, leaves thinly 

 coriaceous long-petioled broadly elliptic or subobovate with a short broad 

 obtuse cusp entire, base rounded or slightly narrowed 3-nerved, receptacles 

 in axillary pairs sessile obovoid depressed ripe \-\ in. diam., large basal 

 bracts united in an entire cartilaginous cup which envelopes the lower third 

 of the ripe receptacle. King Fie. 36, t. 42, 82'- 3 . 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA and KHASIA HILLS, alt. 1-6000 ft. ; not common. 

 A tree. Leaves 5-11 in. ; nerves 6-8 pairs, not very prominent ; under surface 

 pale; stipules 1^-3^ in., linear-lanceolate, flaccid, caducous. Male fl. numerous, 



