Ficus, G. King."] cxxxvi. URTICACE^;. (J. D. Hooker.) 535 



OUTER HIMALAYA, from the Indus to Bhotan; KHASIA MTS., CHITTAGONG and 

 BURMA, ascending to 5000 ft. 



A low spreading tree, 10-30 ft., bark brown. Leaves 5-15 by 4|-12 in., base 

 cordate, rarely rounded, 5-7-nerved ; nerves prominent on both surfaces, nervules 

 nearly transverse; petiole 1-4 in.; stipules J-l in., ovate-lanceolate, pubescent. 

 Recepts 2 in. diam. and more, pubescent or glabrous, (ripe) russet-brown or purplish 

 and spotted, umbilicus large, base sometimes constricted; basal bracts 3, rather 

 large, triangular; peduncle f-l| in., pubescent. Hale sepals large, inflated, broadly 

 imbricate ; stamens 23, filaments long, stout. Gall perianth 2 3-lobed ; style 

 short, subterminal, stigma dilated. Fern. fl. subsessile or pedicelled, perianth of 

 gall fl. ; achene granulate, viscid ; style long, lateral, curved, hairy, stigma 

 cylindric. 



108. P. pomifera, Wall. Cat. 4547; leaves glabrous or nearly so 

 elliptic subovate or lanceolate acute coarsely serrate, nerves 4-5 pairs, 

 reeepts clustered on cauline and rameal tubercles or short leafless branches 

 long-peduncled globose or subpyriform 4-6-grooved pubescent. F. oligodon, 

 Miq. Ann. iii. 234, 297. F. regia, Miq. I. c. 230, 296 (in part] ; Kurz For. 

 Fl. ii. 458. F. Hamiltoniana, Wall. Cat. 4545 A. 



SIKEIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1-3000 ft., J. D. H., &c. CHITTAGONG, Lister. BURMA, 

 Kiirz, &c. PERAK, Kunstler. DISTRIB. Malay Islands. 



A tall tree, head narrow, bark white. Leaves 4^-8 in., above when young pube- 

 rulous, beneath papillose puberulous or glabrous, base rounded or subcuneate, 

 3-5-nerved ; petiole 1|~3| in., pubescent ; stipules |-f in., ovate-lanceolate. Recepts 

 1 in. diam., (ripe) reddish, sometimes warted, oral bracts large, pubescent, basal 3, ovate, 

 acute; peduncle 1-2^ in. Male sepals 3, large, enclosing the 2 curved anthers. 

 Gall andjfem. perianth 3-toothed, of the gall fl. often enveloping the ovoid smooth 

 ovary. .Achene papillose ; style long, lateral, stigma clavate. Differs from F. 

 Horburghii in the white bark, smaller more glabrous not cordate leaves, and hairy 

 receptacles on longer slenderer peduncles ; it is also a more southern plant. 



109. F. varieg-ata, Blume Bijd. 459 ; leaves broadly or elliptic-ovate 

 acuminate entire subrepand or denticulate glabrous above puberulous or 

 glabrous beneath, nerves 4 pairs, reeepts clustered on cauline and rameal 

 tubercles peduncled globose smooth. Miq. Flor. i. ii. 320; Ann. iii. 295. 

 F. subracemosa, Blume 1. c. 469 ; Miq. Flor. 1. c. 330 ; Choix PI. t. 13. 

 F. racemifera, Roxl. Fl. Ind. iii. 560 ; Wight Ic. t. 639. F. sycomoroides, 

 Miq. Ann. 1. c. 230, 295. F. subopaca, Miq. Flor. I. c. 320. F. cerifera, 

 JBlume 'in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, iii. 333, t. 14. F. ceriflua, Jnngh. Java i. 

 439. F. chlorocarpa, Benth. FL Hongk. 330 ; Miq. Ann. 1. c. 296 ; Maxim. 

 in Bull. Acad. Petersb. xi. 330. Covellia racemifera, Miq. in L. J. B. vii. 

 465 ; Flor. 1. c. 325. Sycomorus capensis & gummiflua, Miq. PI. Jungh. 



i. Herb. Ami. 145, t. 93. 



CHITTAGONG, Lister. ASSAM, Mann. PENANG, King's Collector. 

 Malay Islands. 



A tall spreading tree, bark pale, shoots glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 4-7 in., 

 base rounded, notched or cordate, 5-nerved ; nerves prominent, nervules transverse ; 

 petiole 1-2 in.; stipules | -f in., acuminate, glabrous. Recepts 1 in. diam., smooth, 

 (ripe) red, with white streaks and dots, base sometimes constricted ; basal bracts 3, 

 minute, deciduous ; peduncle f-2 in. Male sepals 3 or 4, linear-lanceolate ; anthers 

 2. Gall perianth 4-5-toothed ; ovary ovoid, smooth, stigma funnel-shaped. Achene 

 obovoitl, granulate, stigma clavate. 



T. glomerata, Eoxb. Cor. PL ii. t. 123, and Fl. Ind. iii. 558 ; 



lciivv. \ -Miibranous ovate- to obovate-oblong or -lanceolate subacute glabrous 

 rarely issi'ily pubescent above pubescent and glabrous or asperous beneath, 



