Ficus, G. King."} cxxxvi. URTICACE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) 525 



anther subsessile, very broad. Gall ovary naked, broadly obliquely obovoid; style 

 terminal, thick. Fern, perianth tubular, covering the pedicel of the' rhoafDoid 

 tuiuj.'vk'd acheue; style much longer, stigma cylindric or clavate. 



1 osa ? Reinwdt. in Blume Bijd. 470 ; nodes of shoots stri- 

 gosf , leaves opposite and alternate oblong to ovate- or obovate-lanceolate 

 acute entire or snbserrate, nerves 4-7 pairs, recepts axillary and short- 

 peduncled or rameal or cauline and clustered depressed-globose glabrous. 

 Kvrz For. Fl. ii. 459 (in part). F. geminifolia, Miq. in Zoll. Syst. 93 ; 

 Flor. 313. F. tengerensis, Miq. Ann. iii. 296. F. diphylla, Wall. Cat. 4543. 

 Covellia subopposita, Miq. PL Juiigli. 66 ; Flor. i. ii. 327, and Suppl. 435, 

 and Choix PL. Buitenz., t. 15. C. tuberculata, Miq. in Zoll. Syst. 94, 99, 

 and Flor. I. c. 325. 



KHASIA HILLS, J. D. H., &c. CHITTAGONG to PENANG, PEEAK and SINGAPOEE. 

 DISTEIB. Malay Islands. 



A shrub or small tree. Leaves 3-^-10 in., granulate beneath with coloured nerves ; 

 petiole ^-1 in. ; stipules -f in., scarious. Recepts -1 in. diam., sometimes con- 

 stricted at base, warted and subpyriform when young ; oral_ bracts many ; basal 3, 

 small, acute ; peduncle -! in. Malefl. few ; sepals 2-3, concave. Gall and fern, 

 fl. naked or perianth small round the base of the pedicel of the ovary. Gall ovary 

 ovoid, smooth ; style short, subterminal, stigma funnel-shaped. Fem.fl. as a rule in 

 the axillary short-peduncled recepts. Achene obliquely obovoid, granulate j style 

 lateral, long, stigma cylindric. 



78. F. lepicarpa, Blume Bijd. 459 ; nodes swollen at first pubescent, 

 leaves subopposite and alternate obovate-oblong cuspidate glabrous except 

 the iuidvii.i and nerves, base narrowed unequal 5-nerved, nerves 7-8 pairs 

 erect, recepts subsolitary axillary sessile ellipsoid sparsely hairy warted, 

 bracts in a ring' below the umbilicus large flat tips white. Miq. Ann. iii. 

 283, 297. F. volkhanierircfplia, Wall. Cat. 4542. F. inclinata, Ham. in 

 Wall. Cat. 4486 A. Covellia didynama, Miq. PI. Jungh. 65 ; Flor. i. ii. 

 327. C. lepi^carpa, Miq. Flor. 328. C. volkhamemefolia, Miq. in L. J. B. 

 vii. 464, t. 8. 



PERAK, Kunstler. SINGAPORE, Wallich ; in rocks and by streams, up to 3500 ft. 

 DISTEIB. Malay Islands. 



A small tree. Leaves 7-10 in., sometimes subrepand near the tip ; petiole 

 f-H in-% stipules f-1 in., large. Receptacles usually solitary ; basal bracts 3, ovate, 

 spreading. Male sepals 8, inflated ; filament adnate short curved. Gall perianth 

 a pellucid sack enclosing the ovary, style terminal, stigma dilated. Fern, perianth 

 small, tubular, toothed ; achene obliquely obovoid ; style lateral, long, stigma 

 cylindric. Miquel describes the recepts as sometimes long-peduncled and cauline, but 

 I have not seen them so. 



79. F. obpyramidata, King ; shoots at first tomentose, leaves elliptic 

 ovate or subobovate acute margins subentire undulate, nerves 6 pairs, 

 recepts in small clusters from leafless cauline branches peduncled obpyra- 

 midal ridged warted puberulous. 



PEEAK ; at Laroot, Kunstler. 



A tree, 25-30 ft. Leaves 6-7 in., base7-nerved rounded or cordate, above" sub- 

 Btrigose, nerves and midrib beneath pubescent ; petiole in., tomentose ; stipules | in., 

 hairy. Recepts 1 in. diam., umbilicus depressed. Fern, perianth a ring at the base 

 of the stipes of the ovary ; achene ovoid, granulate, viscid ; style long, subterminal, 

 stigma cylindric or subclavate. 



Sect. VI. EUSYCE (see p. 496). 



80. F. Thwaitesii, Miq. Ann. Mus. iii. 229, 294 ; leaves polymor- 

 phous, cauline elliptic or ovate or 3-lobed and subhastate obtuse scabrid 



