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



40. P. Talboti, King Fie. 51, t. 63, 84i ; all parts glabrous, leaves 

 petioled thinly coriaceous shining above ovate or elliptic shortly candate- 

 acuminate entire, base narrowed 3-5-nerved, receptacles in axillary x pairs 

 sessile obovoid rather depressed at the apex smooth when ripe about i in. 

 diam., basal bracts 3 ovate acute. 



Forests of CANARA, Talbot. 



A large tree. Leaves 3-4 in. ; nerves 6-9 pairs, rather prominent on both sur- 

 faces ; petiole f-1 in. ; stipules ovate, about ^ in. Male fl. few, only near the mouth 

 of the receptacle, sessile ; sepals 3, broadly ovate ; anther 1, filament short. Gall 

 fl. sessile or pedicelled ; sepals 3, lanceolate ; ovary ovate, narrowed to each end ; 

 style terminal. Fern. fl. ; perianth of the galls ; achene ovoid or obovoid, minutely 

 tubercled ; style short, lateral. Near F. retusa, Linn., but dififers in the form and 

 venation of the leaf. 



41. P. Maclellandi, King Fie. 52, t. 64, 84 r ; young parts softly 

 tomentose ultimately all glabrous except the stipules and receptacles, leaves 

 coriaceous oblong or narrowly elliptic obtusely and shortly cuspidate entire, 

 base rounded or slightly narrowed both surfaces in adult leaves minutely 

 tubercled, receptacles in axillary pairs sessile globose covered with pale 

 flocculent tomentum about | in. diam., basal bracts small broadly ovate 

 silky. 



PEGU, M'Clelland. 



A tree ? Leaven 3^-4^ in. ; nerves about 12 pairs, not much more prominent than 

 the secondary, reticulations rather small, distinct ; petiole J-f- in. ; stipules lanceo- 

 late, tomentose, about in. Male fl. not seen. Fern. fl. sessile ; sepals 3, lanceolate; 

 ovary ovoid, acuminate ; style terminal, as long as ovary. This has been collected 

 only once, and it is poorly represented in collections. 



42. P. nervosa, Roth Nov. Sp. 338 ; young parts appressed pubescent 

 or puberulous at length glabrous except the puberulous stipules, receptacles 

 and midribs occasionally appressed pubescent, leaves |-1 in. thinly coria- 

 ceous elliptic oblong-lanceolate to obovate-elliptic or oblanceolate abruptly 

 rather narrowly acuminate entire or margin slightly undulate and revolute 

 shining on both surfaces lower minutely tubercled, base narrowed rarely 

 rounded subequal 3-5-nerved, receptacles in axillary pairs peduncled young 

 subverrucose ripe depressed globose |-1 in. diam., peduncles -|-| in. slender, 

 bracts at the base but 3 small free rounded-ovate pubescent bracts low 

 down on the peduncle. King Fie. 53, t. 65 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 453 ; Wight 

 Ic. t 660 ; Miq. Ann. iii. 286 ; Bedd. For. Man. 223. F. montana, Wall. 

 Cat. 4514 A to D. F. magnoliaefolia, Blume Bijd. 448 ; Miq. I. c. 263, 286. 

 F. modesta, Miq- I- c. 286. Urostigma nervdsum & modestum, Miq. in 

 L. J. B. vi. 585. U. euneuron, Miq. Flor. i. ii. 353. 



SIXKI.M and BHOTAN HIMALAYA, ASSAM, the KHASIA MTS., BURMA, the MALAY 

 and DECCAN PENINSULAS and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Malay Islands, China. 



A tree. Leaves 3|-8 in. ; nerves 7-10 pairs^early horizontal, prominent beneath,; 

 petiole - in.; stipules lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, membranous, puberulous, 

 about | in. Male ft. few, only near mouth of receptacle, pedicelled ; sepals 2, long, 

 spathulate ; stamen 1, filament as long as the anther adnate to one sepal. Gall Ji. 

 sessile or pedicelled ; sepals 3, elongate, acuminate ; ovary ovoid, smooth ; style 

 short. Fern. fl. rarely pedicelled ; sepals 3, lanceolate ; achene ovoid, acuminate ; 

 style twice as long, stigma clavate. 



VAR. minor ; smaller, more puberulous, nerves 5-7 pairs. U. modestum, Thwaites 

 Enum. 266. Nilghiri Hills, Ceylon, 3-5000 ft. 



phi!, Blume Bijd. 437 ; all parts glabrous, leaves long- 

 minutely tuberculate above when dry shining 



