528 cxxxvi. URTiCACEjE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ficus, G. King. 



PENANG, Curtis. PEEAK, Kunstler. SINGAPORE, Wallich. DISTRIB. Malay. 

 Islands. 



Stem often rooting. Leaves 3-5 in., above smooth and glabrous or scabrid, 

 beneath from glabrous .to sparsely pilose and hispid, nerves more or less horizontal ; 

 petiole - in., stout, glabrous strigose or scaberulous ; stipules in., broadly ovate, 

 in. on the barren shoots. Receptacles 2-3 in. diam., (ripe) yellow, umbilical 

 anuulus smooth sometimes open, basal bracts 3, rather large, ovate acute. Male ft. 

 and galls in the upper half of the cavity ; anthers subsessile, large, oblong. Sepals of 

 all fl. 4, lanceolate. Gall ovary obliquely ovoid, smooth, style short lateral. Achene 

 subobovoid or oblong, style terminal The following forms are distinguishable. 



F. EIBESIOIDES, Wall, (and ADNASCENS) ; leaves lanceolate glabrous or sparsely 

 hairy, receptacles ^ in. diam. fewer in a cluster, peduncle in. or less. 



F. UENIGERA, Miq. ; leaves substrigose beneath, receptacles flattened at the top, 

 annulus large, basal bracts large. 



87. F. foveolata ? Wall. Cat. 4493 ; shoots pubescent, leaves mem- 

 branous ovate elliptic or oblong or lanceolate acute or acuminate entire 

 glabrous above base rounded, nerves 3-6 pairs, recepts subsolitary sessile 

 axillary globose to ovoid or obovoid. Miq. Ann. iii. 294; Brand. For. Fl. 

 423. F. erecta, Miq. 1. c. 294. F. nipponica, Franch. fy Savat. JSnum. PI. 

 Jap. i. 436. F. Thunbergii, Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Petersb. xi. 339. F. 

 impressa & Wrightii, Benth. Fl HongJc. 328. F. luducca, Roxb. in Wall. 

 Cat. 4493 D. F. pubigera, Wall. Cat. 4518 ; Brand. 1. c. 424 ; Kurz For. 

 Fl. ii. 450. F. ludens, Wall. Cat. 4579. Pogonotrophe pubigera, ver- 

 rucosa & reticulata, Miq. in L. J. B. vii. 76, 77. Ficus sp., Griff. Notul. 

 iv. 400, and Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 561. 



OUTEE HIMALAYA, from Chamba to Bhotan, alt. 2-7000 ft. ; the KHASIA HILLS, 

 CHITTAGONG and BUEMA. DISTEIB. China. 



A creeper or lofty climber. Leaves 1^-6 in., pubescent or glabrate beneath 

 with prominent nerves ; base 3-nerved, rounded cordate or subcuneate ; petiole -\ in., 

 pubescent; stipules in pairs, \ in., villous. Receptacles | in. diam., or ovoid and 

 1 by | in., umbonate puberulous warted or wrinkled or obovoid and 1-| in. long and 

 broad ; basal bracts 3, ovate, acute, often reflexed ; peduncle T V~3 i n - Male fl. 

 pedicelled, filaments connate ; anthers 2-3 ovate, pointed. Sepals of all fl. 4. Gall 

 ovary obovoid, style short, stigma dilated. Achene oblong-reniforrn, papillose, style 

 long subterminal. Distinct forms are 



VAR. oleceformis ; creeping (never on trees), leaves oblong-lanceolate, receptacles 

 1 in. long ovoid. Sikkim. 



VAE. maliformis ; climbing and fruiting at the top, leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 recepts l-|-2 in. diam. much umbonate. 



88. P. ramentacea, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 547 ; leaves coriaceous ovate 

 or elliptic-ovate subacuminate entire glabrous except the 5 or 6 pairs of 

 nerves beneath, recepts subsessile solitary or in axillary pairs or clusters 

 depressed globose stipitate. Kurz For Fl. ii. 454. F. rigescens, Miq. Ann. 

 iii. 293. P F. subrigida, Miq. Flor. Suppl. 175. F. oligosperma, Miq. PI. 

 Jungh. 55, and Flor. I. c. 319. F. microcarpa, Blume Bijd. 442. F. vagans, 

 Wall. Cat. 4562. F. leptocarpa, Steud. Nomencl. i. 636. F. adhserens, Miq. 

 PI. Jungh. 55 ; Flor. I c. 319, t. 22 ; Ann. I. c. 280, 294. Pogonotrophe 

 rigida, Miq. in L. J. B. vii. 74 ; Flor. I. c. 331. 



SILHET, Wallich. BURMA, Kurz. PEEAK, Kunstler. DISTEIB. Malay Islands. 



A powerful epiphyte, often eventually a tree. Leaves 2^-8 in. (on shoots 11 in.), 

 base rounded notched or cordate 3-7-nerved, nerves parallel, reticulations minute ; 

 petiole f-ls in., stout; stipules -| in., villous or pubescent, caducous. Recepts -% in. 

 diam., young sparsely hairy, suddenly contracted into the stipes; basal bracts 3, 

 small reflexed glabrous. Sepals of male and gall fl. 2-3 ; filaments short, anthers 



