Ficus, G. King."] cxxxvi. URTICACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 531 



A shrub or small tree. Leaves 5-8 in., base 3-nerved, narrow or broad and 

 cordate, or the shoots large palmately 5-7-lobed and -nerved ; petiole l-3 in., 

 glabrous or pubescent ; stipules in., ovate-lanceolate, at first pubescent. 

 Recepts ^- in. diam., young pubescent ; basal bracts 3, broadly ovate, obtuse. 

 Male fl. sessile, short, broad ; sepals 3, broadly imbricate ; stamens 1-2. Gall sepals 

 2, lanceolate; ovary ovoid, smooth; style short, lateral, stigma fuunel-shaped. 

 Acliene crustaceous, tubercled ; style as long, lateral, stigma cylindric. 



95. P. fulva ? Reinwdt. in Blume Bijd. 578 ; shoots hispid, leaves 

 membranous from ovate or elliptic to rounded rhombic 3-5-sinuate or 

 -lobed acute or apiculate denticulate above scabrid with tomentose nerves 

 beneath tawny-tomentose, nerves 2-4 pairs, recepts crowded sessile or sub- 

 sessile in axillary pairs ovoid to globose. Miq. Ann. iii. 269, 290 ; Flor. i. ii. . 

 296; De Vriese PI. Rar. Jard. Leyd.fasc. 1. F. Eeinwardtii, Link Sf Otto, 

 Ic. Rar. I. 6, t. 31 ; Miq. in L. J. B. vii. 457. F. suborbicularis, Miq. Flor. 

 Suppl. 425. F. apiculata, Miq. in Zoll. Syst. 92, 98 ; Flor. I. c. 296 ; Ann. 

 I. c. 269, 290. F. chlorocarpa, Miq. Flor. 294. Pogonotrophe flavidula, 

 Miq. I. c. Suppl. 435. 



BUEMA, the ANDAMAN ISLANDS and MALAY PENINSULA. DISTEIB. Malay 

 Islands. 



A small shady tree. Leaves 4-8 in., base rounded or cordate, 5-7-nerved ; petiole 

 l--3 in., pubescent; stipules single, broadly ovate, acute, base truncate, hairs 

 deciduous. Recepts -f in. diam., (ripe) yellow-red ; basal bracts 3, broad, villous. 

 Male fl. sessile; sepals 3, large, oblong, much overtopping the 2 subsessile oblong 

 anthers. Gall and fern, sepals 5, narrow-lanceolate; gall ovary ovoid, smooth; 

 style short, lateral, stigma funnel-shaped. 'Fern. fl. sessile or pedicelled ; achene 

 obliquely ovoid, crustaceous, granulate. There are two principal forms : F. fulva 

 with rounded leaves, and F. flavidula & chlorocarpa with ovate or elliptic ones. 



96. F. chrysocarpa, Reinwdt. in Blume Bijd. 475 ; leaves mem- 

 branous elliptic to oblanceolate acute serrate (not lobed or cordate) above 

 sparsely strigose beneath pubescent or tomentose, nerves 3-4 pairs above 

 the basal, recepts in axillary pairs ovoid or globose densely golden-hairy. 

 Miq. Flor. i. ii. 302, and Suppl. 427 ; Ann. iii. 270, 291 ; Kurz For. Fl. 

 ii. 596. F. aurata, Miq. Ann. I. c. 271, 291. F. densiserra, Miq. Flor. 

 Suppl. 426. F. arguta, Wall. Cat. 4489. Covellia aurata, Miq. Flor. 

 Suppl. 433. 



MAETABAN, Kurz. PENANG, Wallich. PEEAK, Kunstler. DISTEIB. Malay 

 Islands. 



A tree, branchlets hollow, yellowish or rusty hirsute. Leaves 4-7 in., base 

 3-nerved ; stipules \ in., lanceolate, rufous-tornentose. Recepts -| in. diam., young 

 ovoid, interior densely hairy. Male sepals 4, broadly ovate, glabrous. Gall and 

 fern, sepals 4, oblanceolate, tips penicillate. Gall ovary ovoid, smooth ; style short, 

 lateral. Achene subrhornbic, wrinkled, tubercled; style long, lateral, hairy, stigma 

 cylindric. 



97. S 1 . hirta, VaJil Enum. ii. 201 ; leaves polymorphous ovate elliptic 

 rounced to oblong-lanceolate acuminate serrate entire or 3-5-lobed above 

 scabridly hispid beneath hirsute or tomentose, nerves 2-7 pairs above the 

 3-7 basal, recepts in axillary pairs sessile or subsessile hispid globose with 

 usually fern. fl. and ovoid with male and gall. fl. Roorb. FL Ind. iii. 534 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 672 ; Miq. in L. J. B. vii. 456 ; Flor. i. ii. 297, t. 18 ; Ann. iii. 

 290 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 449. F. setosa, Blume Bijd. 477 ; Miq. in L. J. B. 

 1. c. 456 ; Hook. 8f Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. 216, t. 49. F. setifera, Steud. 

 Nomcnd. i. 638. F. hibiscifolia, Champ, in Hook. Keiu Journ. Bot. vi. 77. 



