Ficus, G. King.'] cxxxvi. URTICAOE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 527 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kumaon eastwards; ASSAM, KHASIA HILLS, CHITTA- 

 GONG, BURMA and the ANDAMAN ISLANDS. BEHAR, on Parusnath. 



Scandent; stem and branches often rooting. Leaves 2-3 in., rugulose and sub- 

 scabrid above, beneath subareolar, base strongly 3 -nerved ; petiole - in. ; stipules 

 i in., ovate, acuminate. Recepts % in. diam., ytllow to red; base sometimes con- 

 stricted into a stipes ; umbilicus rather prominent; peduncle 3-5 in. Sepals of all fl. 

 4 ; anthers subsessile. Gall ovary obovold, smooth ; style subterminal, short, thick, 

 stigma hooked. Achene oblong, smooth ; margin broad, pale ; style lateral, long, 

 stigma subcapitate. In Roxburgh's drawings of F. scandens and hederacea the malefl. 

 are monandrous, ot'fruticosa diandrous. 



84. F. obtusa, Hassk. Cat. Sort. Bogor. (1844) 75; shoots softly 

 brown tomentose, leaves broadly or elliptic-ovate or subobovate acute or 

 obtuse entire hispidulous above when young scabrid when old, beneath 

 puberulous or pubescent, nerves 3 or 4 pairs above the basal, recepts sub- 

 sessile in axillary pairs subglobose or depressed glabrous puberulous or 

 subtomentose. F. alnifolia, Miq. PI. Jungh. 51 ; Flor. i. ii. 330 ; Ann. iii. 

 278, 293, t. 8 D. F. piperifolia, Miq. Ann. I c. 293. F. platycaula, Miq. 

 Flor. I. c. 318. Pogonotrophe javana, Miq. in L. J. IB. vii. 75, Flor. I. c. 

 330 ; Ann. 1. c. 278, 293. P. piperifolia, Miq. in Zoll. Verz. 93, 99 ; Flor. 

 1. c. F. borneensis, Flor. I. c. 330. 



PERAK, Kunstler. DrsTBiB. Java. 



Leaves 2^-5 in. ; base broad, rounded, rarely narrowed, cordate or notched, 5-7- 

 nerved; petiole -f in., tomentose or subscabrid; stipules ^ in., lanceolate, pubescent 

 or villous. Recepts ^ in. diam., yellow-brown to crimson; basal bracts 3, broadly 

 ovate, pubescent; peduncle 1-3 in., fulvous-tomentose. Fern, sepals 5 ; ovary long- 

 elliptic; style long, filiform, adjacent stigmas cohering in a thick umbonate 

 disk. 



85. F. alutacea. Illume Bijd. 457 ; leaves coriaceous elliptic or 

 elliptic-ovate or oblong entire acute or cuspidate, smooth and shining above, 

 beneath pale tessellate squamulose, nerves 5-6 pairs above the basal, 'recepts 

 long-peduncled in axillary pairs or cauline and fascicled globose smooth. 

 Miq. Flor. i. 319. 



PEEAK, Kunstler. DISTBIB. Java. 



Shoots puberulous or glabrescent, verruculose. Leaves 4-7 in. ; base rounded 

 or narrowed, sub-2-auricled, 3-nerved ; nerves prominent beneath ; petiole f-l| in., 

 stout, scurfy ; stipules in pairs, ^ in., ovate-lanceolate, puberulous.- Receptacles 

 - in. diam., ripe reddish; basal bracts 3, united; peduncle nearly 1 in., slender, 

 glabrous. 



VAB. Teysmanniana ; branches warted, leaves pubescent beneath, especially on 

 the nervules, receptacles axillary. P. Teysmanniana, Miq. I. c. 319. 



86. P. recurvaj Blume Biid. 457 ; shoots subscabrid and deciduously 

 villous, leaves elliptic-ovate oblong or lanceolate obtuse or acuminate entire 

 subscabrid above glabrous or sparsely hairy beneath, nerves 2-3 pairs 

 above the rounded or subcordate base, receptacles sessile or subsessile 

 axillary and solitary or in pairs or clustered on short axillary tubercles 

 depressed globose pubescent or glabrate. Miq. Flor. i. ii. 317; Suppl. 

 432, and Ann. iii. 279, 294. F. Spanogheana, Miq. in L.J.B. vii. 451, and 

 Flor. 1. c. F. villipes, Miq. in L. J. B. I. c. F. strigosa, Blume L c. 318 ; 

 Miq. Ann. I. c. 279, 294. F. urnigera, Miq. in Zoll. Syst. 92, 98, and Flor. 

 I. c. 318, t. 19. F. ribesioides, Wall. Cat. 4522 ; Ml'q. Ann. I. c. 293. F. 

 adnascens, Wall, Cat. 4578 B. 



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