Ficus, G. King.'] cxxxvi. URTICACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 517 



Flor. i. ii. 314 F. cinerascens, TJiw. Enum. 266 ; Bedd. For. Man. 224. 

 F. artocarpif'olia, Roxb. mss. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, from Canara southwards ; BURMA, the, ANDAMAN ISLANDS 

 and CEYLON. DISTEIB. Java. 



A large tree. Leaves 5-8 in. (12 or more in barren shoots) ; nerves 5-12 pairs, 

 slender but prominent beneata, as are the nervnles and reticulations ; above smooth, 

 shining, and hard ; beneath pale, minutely papillose7 .pubescent when young, ulti- 

 mately glabrous but subscabrid; petiole l-lf in. ; -'stipules ovate-lanceolate, - in., 

 pubescent. Flowers intermixed with many ovate-lanceolate bracteoles. Male fl. 

 rather numerous, scattered, pedicelled, 1-2-androus ; sepals 3, spathulate ; stamens 1 or 

 2, anther small, ovate, filament short thin. Gall andfem.fl. ; perianth deeply divided 

 above into 3 or 4 broadly lanceolate segments ; style elongate, stigma d^epjy bifid j 

 achene obovoid. The bracteoles are often with difficulty distinguisnM^from the 

 perianth^ I follow Miquel in adopting Willdenow's name callosa for his scleroptera 

 and Thwaites' cinerascens, though I rather doubt Willdenow's description really 

 referring to this plant. 



53. F. vasculosa, Wall. Cat. 4482 ; quite glabrous, leaves pale green 

 when dry coriaceous petioled elliptic or obovate-oblong entire obtuse or 

 obtusely cuspidate gradually narrowed to the acute or cuneate obscurely 

 3-nerved base, receptacles in axillary pairs peduncled globose -glabrous 

 minutely tubercled base constricted and minutely 3-bracteate pale yellow, 

 ^-\ in. diam., pedicel | | in. slender. King Fie. 65, t. 86, 84 W ' 2 ; Miq. in 

 L. J. JB. vii. 454, and Flor. i. ii. 315 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 453. F. Champion!, 

 Benth. in Hook. Keiv Journ. vi. 76, and FL Hong Kong, 328. 



TAVOY, Wallicfi. PERAZ, King's Collector. PENANG and SINGAPORE, Curtis, 

 &c. DISTEIB. Banka, Java, China. 



A tree. Leaves 2-3 in. ; nerves 6-12 pairs, nearly transverse, slender, but pro- 

 minent below, reticulations rather distinct ; both surfaces pale and perfectly glabrous 

 and shining, i-f in. ; petiole -|-f in. ; stipules in., ovate, acute. Male fl. few and 

 only near the mouth of the receptacle, pedicelled, diandrous ; sepals 4, ovate or 

 obovate. Fern, and gall fl. alike, sessile or pedicelled j perianth 4-toothed ; ovary 

 obovoid; style lateral, elongate, stigma 2-armed. 



Sect. III. SYNCECIA (see p. 495). 



54. F. aurantiaca, Griff. Notul. iv. 394, and Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 504, 

 f. 2 ; scabrid, leaves thickly coriaceous elliptic-ovate subinequilateral shining 

 and smooth above, hispidly scabrid beneath, nerves 8-9 pairs, receptacles 

 ovoid-cylindric base ebracteate. F. trachycoma, Miq. in ZolL Syst. Verz. 

 92 ; Flor. i. ii. 304 ; Ann. iii. 293. F. ? dimidiata, Wall. Cat. 4515. 



MALACCA, Wallich, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 460). DISTEIB.. Java. 



A scandent scabrid shrub. Leaves 2^-4 in., acute or apicukte, margins entire 

 recurved, above hispid when young, beneath often pale pustular and hispidulous, nerves 

 strong; petiole in., stout, scabrid; stipules in pairs > ovate-lanceolate or subulate, 

 glabrous. Receptacles 2% by 1^ in., solitary, russet-red, peduncled, young umbonate 

 scabrid, ripe smooth, umbilicus with large bracts ; peduncle i in., scabrid ; basal 

 bracts 3, broad, rounded. Fem.fl. mixed with neuters, subsessile ; sepals 5, linear ;. 

 ovary ovoid; style short, lateral, stout; stigma large,, arms 2-3 subulate. Neuter fl. 

 shortly pedicelled, sepals 3. 



55. F. punctata, Tliunb. Fie. 9;. branchlets reddish-pubescent, 

 leaves often dimorphous coriaceous oblong to oblanceolate or subrhomboid 

 very inequilateral obtuse or subacute above glabrous shining beneath 

 tessellately dotted and coloured, nerves 2-4 pairs, receptacles solitary or 



