SECTION L-PAL^EOMORFlli;. 



Palaeomorphe. — Male flowers with 1 stamen and a rudimentary pistil occt/j /i/ig 



the same receptacles as the gall floioers ; fertile finale /lowers alone in 

 another set of receptacles ; perianth of fertile femdrs usually gam Jiyllom 

 - or 5-cleft (of separate pieces in Xos. 2 and 3), small trees, or cre<t 

 or sub-scandent shrubs. 



Leaves shortly and abruptly cuspidal , coarsely serrate towards the apex. 



receptacles small, numerous, in fascicles of 4 to 10 1. / pwfer> 



Leaves inequilateral, varying froni ovate-elliptic to rhomboM, their venal ion 



lucid 2. F. g 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, gradually tapering to the apex. 



Leaves narrowly elliptic-laiiceolat--, slightly papillose ; receptacles with- 

 out basal lira cts ; perianth of fertile female fl were of pieces . . ■ I i %nmna. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate, ver} papillose; receptacles with 3 basal braets; 



perianth of female flowers ; unophyllous 4. t adew. Derma. 



Leaves with apices abruptly caudate, the tail narrow and at least an inch 



long; perianth of fertile female flowers gamophyllous. 



i Leaves sessile, auricled at the base 5. F. aunfa. 



Leaves shortly petiolate ; the stipules subulate, more than an inch long, 



glabrous 6. J subulata. • 



Leaves ovate-elliptic, 3 in. or more broad, secondary venation transverse. 



Receptacles and under surfaces of leaves tomentose 7. F. laaiocarpa. 



Receptacles hispid tomentose, under surfaces of leaves sub-scaberulous, 



glabrescent, or glabrous 8. /•'. parietal . 



Leaves ovate -elliptic, rarely so mueh as 2 in. broad, secondary venation 



not transverse ; receptacles peduneulai , seabrid-hispid 9. F. urophyll*. 



Leaves slightlv inequilateral, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate; recej acles sub- 

 sessile, hispid ; stipules tomentose 10. F. t a. 



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Ficus pisifera, Wall. Cat. 4504; Miq. in L id. Jour*. Bot. vii. 427; Fl. Ind 



Bat. i. ft. 2. 301 



A 



Mu 



part) PL Jung 



h. 61 



Lugd. Bat. iii. 2!M. — F. rcmbla*, Mirj. ( 

 FL Ind. Bat. I pt. 2, ZQ4.—F. <?rcwia>folia, Bl. Bij 



475 (in part); Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 306; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Hat iii 

 273 202 (in part).— F. sazatilis, Miq. (not of BL) in ZolL Sy.st. A rz. & 



