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Var. unyiHa, Miq. I.e. Supp. 4;i0. — F. rigida, Bl. Bijd. 465.— Jl rwasato, 

 BL Bijd. 468.— 2?. pan k ,/, BL Bijd. 4G7; Miq. V). Ind. Bat. i. pt. 

 308.— F. iiffwmi* (Lam. ?), Be nth. PL Hong-Kong, 327 — F. a linmraln, 

 Roxb. MSS. in Herb. Calc ; Miq. in Loud. Join . Hot vii. -1 . 1 I Ind. 

 Bat. i pt. 2. 311 ; Ann. Mus. Lngd Bat. iii. 277, 29:J (partly (.—J rrre&a 

 (Vahl?j, lioxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 552 (excl. svn. Rheede): Kurt I Flora Hi it. 



Bumi. ii. 4'*1. — F. excelw, Wall. Cat. 4477 \. B, C, D.— F. tiioers »J». Kein 

 (non Bl.).— F sub-obli/ua, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lu i. Bat iii. , 

 F. aitimeeraho, Roxb. (arclsa, Vahl.), Wi. lit. Ic. 6*0. 



A tree, the leaves varying much as to form and surfaces, idwa\ - with prominent and 

 usually (except in var. paralitica) more or loss lucid r-rvation and venation ; the \ <>ung hnmehes 

 scaberulous, often pubescent ; leaves p( t iolat , more or loss coriaceous, usual 1 inequilateral, 



from ovate-elliptic or lanceolate-elliptic to rhoinboidal, noOJMfcmallv oblanoeolate-ellipti- <»r 

 gibbons towards the base at one or both sides ; ed«rei always entire and often revolutc : lp< 



obtuse, rounded, with or without a short acumen, or gradually narrowed to a rather blunt 

 rarely to a long sharp point ; base 3-ncrved, cuneato-acuto or bluntMi, never rouude 



often unequal; lai ral nerves 3 to 7 pairs (rarely more), always prominent; intermediate 



and reticulations distinct, from lucid pal coloured and Inning to (in vara, cuspidala 



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and parasitica) dull and neither shining nor Coloured ; lower surface firm, often more or 1 

 harsh from the prominent venation, glabrous, <>r minutely tubenjulnte to minutely hispid ( 



parasitica) ; upper surface glabrous, shining to dull, and (in var. para*it a) minut. ly hispid 



especially on the midrib and nerves: length from 2 > in. to 8 in. ; petioh J to -4 

 stipules ovate-lanceolate, convolute, lightly curve I, from -8 to •*> in. long. KYccptac)< 



pedunculate, axillary, solitary, in pain, or in small umbellate i rich* from the branches 







below the leaves (often at the forks of the branches), depressed-globular or globular 

 pyriform, mammillate, with rather ft prominent, often apert umbilici , minutely \. rueose 

 sub-scabrid or scabrid, without basal bracts; when ripe } How and from -2 to -3 in. a< e 

 peduncles '2 to '4 in. long, puberulous, with a few bracteoles at their bases; male flowers 



the mouth of the rec.pt aeles cont ning gall flowers; perianth of male fioWtt of 



+"to 6 linear, fleshy , hairy pieces ; stamen 1, with a short filament, whi h is unit. 1 by its 



base to an abortive (ins ct-attacked) pistil: gall flowers with perianth similar to the malo 



flowers the ovary globular, smooth, the style short, lateral ; fertile f male flower in separate 

 receptacles, with a thin hyaline perianth of 1 linear, slightly hairy pieces, the aci ne lightly 

 papillose, obliquely ovoid, style elongate lateral. 



India near the bases of all the hill ranges in the « mntry, throu h the Khasi Hill , 



Burxnah to the Malayan Peninsula and Arc-hip. lago; also in Hon Kong. 



Chitt 

 A vc 



M al a} 



o-oncr and Burmali to the Malayan rcmuauw <u.u «i,..,,,i,. _■■. ... 



° widely distributed and most variable specioi. Blum, made four pe.-,, out of tin 

 Malayan forms of thi of all of which I have seen the typ . in the I rich h. M ( >f 



BWs four names, J! ffito* is that here retained for the spec h as bem the one wh,ch 



n nf most widely into use, and which is, moreover, a des nptiYe name, Roxburgh 

 w n g l Z K^sider that this is the plant nam, I m Ua by Vahl.. and Mr. ft ham (FL 



Walhch ^»"«; t is bably F . Hfforn s of Lamark. Bat the types of the* tw 



oldei species 1 i ^^ ^ of gMom we are on firm groond, Blnmi i types being 



^LeTden The forms of this Protean plant arrange themselves into four group as f Hows 



^ ^ ^1 Typical gibbosa, Bl. (with synonyms as abov -Leaves a variable in shaj 



glabrous, shining, and (when dry) coloured beneath 



. v-v. midrib, nerv«'« 



