524 cxxxvi. UBTICACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ficm, G. King. 



axils of scarious "bracts glabrous. Miq. Ann. iii. 297. Covellia prostrata, 

 Miq. in L. % J. B. vii. 465. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 2000 ft., Kurz. SILHET and the KHASIA HILLS, 

 Wallich, &c. 



A small tree. Leaves 5^-7 in., tapering from above the middle to tbe rather 

 obtuse 3-5 -nerved base ; petiole in.; stipules f in., narrow, convolute. Fruit-in tj 

 branches 10-12 ft., prostrate. Recepts with 3 ovate acuminate basal bracts, pedun- 

 cle in. Fern. fl. sessile or pedicelled ; sepals 3-4, linear ; achene broadly ovoid ; 

 style about as long, stigma cylindric. Male and gall fl. unknown. Closely allied to 

 F. Ribes, Reinwdt., but distinguished by its larger size, absence of hairs and larger 

 receptacles; intermediates, however, occur. 



74. P. XKEiquelii, King ; shoots strigose, leaves subopposite and alter- 

 nate obovate-oblong or oblanceolate cuspidately tailed entire subglabrous, 

 nerves 6-8 pairs, recepts depressed globose in woody panicles from the stein 

 pubescent.- F. caulocarpa, Miq. Ann. iii. 235, 297 (not Urost. caulocarpa). 

 F. fistulosa, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 459 (in part, not of Reinwdt.}. 



PEGU to TENASSEEIM, Kurz. PEEAK, Kunstler. SINGAPORE, King. DISTEIB. 

 Sumatra, Celebes. 



A tree. Leaves 4-8 in., membranous, pubescent above and beneath when young, 

 adult almost glabrous, tail 1 in., base narrowed 3 -nerved ; petiole - in. ; stipules 

 I in., lanceolate, pubescent. Fruiting branches cauline, large, much panicled, scurfy. 

 Recepts % in. diavn., ripe greenish with pale stripes ; oral bracts many broad, basal 3 

 ovate acute ; peduncle in. Male sepals 3, ovate, inflated, broadly imbricate ; 

 anther broadly ovate, emarginate. Gall and fern. fl. naked. Gall ovary ovoid- 

 globose ; style short, lateral, stigma tubular. Achene obovoid, tubercled ; style lateral, 

 as long as the ovary, stigma cylindric. 



75. r. fasclculata. King \ shoots purplish-strigose, leaves alternate 

 short-petioled narrowly or obovate-elliptic cuspidate subcrenate glabrous 

 above tuberculate beneath with 4-5 pairs of appressed hairy nerves, recepts 

 fascicled on cauline tubercles peduncled subglobose ridged glabrous. 



PEEAK ; banks of the Kampo River, Kunstler. 



A small tree. Leaves 7-9, minutely 3-nerved, base acute; petiole ^ in., hispid 

 with purplish hairs; stipules ^ in., lanceolate, hispid. Recepts 5-8 in a cluster, 

 russet -brown ; basal bracts 3, minute, ovate; peduncle in., pubescent. Fern. Jl. 

 pedicelled ; perianth tubular, girding the lower half of the stipes of the obliquely 

 ovoid tubercled achene; style subterminal, filiform, about as long as the ovary, 

 stigma clavate. Male and gall fl. not seen. 



76. r. RibeSj Reimodt. in Blume Sij'd. 463 ; shoots strigose, leaves 

 alternate petioled glabrous except the appressed pubescent midrib and. 

 nerves beneath lanceolate or oblanceolate subfalcate caudate entire, nerves 

 7-9 pairs, recepts on long leafless branches from the base of the stem very 

 small peduncled subglobose constricted at the base ribbed puberulous. 

 Miq. Ann. iii. 284, 297 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 458. F. polycarpa, Roxb. Fl. 

 2nd. iii. 556 ; Wall. Cat. 4509. F. copiosa, Steud. Nomend. i. 635. F. 

 prostrata, Wall. Cat. 4536 (in part). Covellia Eibes, Miq. Flor. i. ii. 325. 

 C microcarpa & paniculata, Miq. in L. J. B. vii. 466, t. 9 A, and 

 467. 



TENASSERIM to PENAXG and SINGAPORE, WallicJi, &c. DJSTEIB. Malay Islands, 

 New Guinea. 



A small tree. Leaves 2-4| in., membranous, narrowed from below the middle to 

 the acute sub-3-nerved base; petiole in., strigose; stipules in., convolute. 

 Recepts i in. diam., young warted, mouth closed by 5 broad bracts, base constricted 

 into a 3-bractcate stipes T \j in. long; peduncle -*. in. Male sepals 2, large, inflated ; 



