526 cxxxvi. URTICACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Ficux, O. Kimj. 



above pubescent beneath, those on fruiting branches twice as large elliptic 

 or obovate entire, recepts subsolitary axillary globose smooth. V. liversi- 

 formis, Miq. in L. J. S. vii. 441 ; Ann. 1. c. 281, 294, and I 1 '. distirha,, 

 Thwaitea Enum. 266. F. oxycoccoides, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. 438. F. stipulata, 

 Moon Cat. 6. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, ascending to 5000 ft. 



A slender climbing rooting shrub, with free fruiting branches. Leaves J-f in., 

 base 3-nerved notched or cordate; petiole 1 in. ; stipules a little longer, oval.c. 

 Recepts % in. diam., base contracted into a T \j in. stipes with 3 broad basal bracts. 

 Sepals of all fl. 3, short, broad ; gall and fern. fl. similar. 



81. F. excavata, King ; shoots tawny-pubescent, leaves obliquely or 

 orbicular-ovate obtuse entire glabrous above sparsely appressed-pubescent 

 beneath, nerves 2 pairs, reticulations lacunose, recepts in axillary clusters 

 sessile depressed-globose pubescent. 



PEBAK, King's Collector. DISTRIB. Borneo. 



Scandent. Leaves 1^-H in- ; base subequal, 5-nerved ; petiole i in., pubescent ; 

 stipules in pairs, ^ in., ovate, acuminate, silky, deciduous. Recepts in clusters of 

 about 6, unripe orange -red (ripe unknown); basal bracts 3, triangular-ovate, glabrous. 

 Ftm.fl. subsessile; sepals 4; acheue oblong, subpapillose, style short, subterrninal. 

 Allied to F. recurva and lanata, Blume. 



82. P. ISBviSj Blume Sij'd. 437 ; usually glabrous, leaves membranous 

 long-petioled orbicular or broadly or elliptic-ovate cuspidate entire or 

 obscurely toothed towards the tip, nerves 3-4 pairs above the basal, recepts 

 axillary peduncled subsolitary globose rarely pyriform. Miq. Ann. iii. 278, 

 293. F. vagans, Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 537. F. Emodi, Wall. Cat. 4515. ? F. 

 pedicellata, Wall. Cat. 4486 (in part). F. ceylanica, Miq. Ann. I. c. 293, 

 and in L. J. S. 1. c. 75. Pogonotrophe bevis, Miq. Flor. i. ii. 330. P. 

 assamica, Miq. in L. J. S. 73. P. dasyphylla, Miq. 1. c. 74, and Ann. I. c. 

 293. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Nepal eastwards, alt. 2-5000 ft. ; and from ASSAM 

 to the MALAY PENINSULA and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Malay Islands. 



A small tree or epiphyte. Leaves 4-7 in., glabrous above except the nerves, 

 beneath puberulous or pubescent ; base rounded to cordate rarely narrowed, 5-7- 

 nerved ; petiole 1-| 2 in. ; stipules | ^ in. Recepts J-l in. diam., ripe greenisfc-yellow, 

 smooth, puberulous or tomentose, hispid within; basal bracts 3, small, spreading; 

 peduncle slender, glabrous. Sepals of all fl. 5, linear-lauceolate ; authers 2-3, elon- 

 gate, subsagittate. Gall ovary globose, smooth ; style short, subterminal, stigma 

 diluted. Achene ellipsoid, style terminal, nearly as long, stigma bifid. The follow- 

 ing are the prominent forms. 



VAR. dasyphylla ; leaves more or less appressed pubescent beneath, receptacles 

 and peduncles tawny-tomentose. Ceylon (the only form there). 



VAR. tomentosa ; leaves tomentose, receptacles tomentose or pubescent, peduncles 

 1 in. Perak. 



VAR. assamica ; shrubby, leaves very broad rather thick puberulous, receptacles 

 in pairs, peduncles 1-| in. divaricate. Khasia and Duphla Hills, Cachar. 



83. F. scandens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 536 ; leaves ovate or elliptic-ovato 

 subacute or acute entire base broad rounded, nerves 3 pairs above the basal, 

 receptacles axillary long-peduncled solitary or in pairs globose scaberulous. 

 IHffht Ic. t. 643 ; Mig. in L. J. B. vii. 452 ; Ann. iii. 281, 294 ; Brand. Fm-. 

 Fl. 421 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 455. F. fructicosa & hederacea, Roxb. I. c. 533, 

 5'')8. F. fruticosa, JRoxb.?, Crustacea & triplinervis, Wall. Cat. 4501, 

 4533 A, B. 



