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PALEOMOUPHE. 



long; receptacles sessile, axillary, in pairs, often very close together, ovoid, without basal 

 bracts, densely covered with long, yellowish, soft, floccnlent tomentum ; about 3o in. across; 

 „ flowers not fonnd] gall flowers pedicillate; the perianth of 3 narrowly lanceo- 

 late pieces, achene smooth, sub-globular, style short, lateral, st.gma dilated; fertile 



female flowers occupying the whole cavity of different receptacles from the former, sub 



sessile; the perianth campanulate with 4 lanceolate unequal segments, the achene ovoid, 

 the style lateral, rather short, stigma sub-cylindric. 



Western Sumatra, — Teysmann. 



A species closely allied to F. parielalis, BL, but distinguished from that species by the 



dense tomentum of its receptacles and of the under surfaces of the 1 



Not having many receptacles for dissection, I have been unable to find male flowei 



These doubtless occupy the usual situation under the scales of the mouth in the recept 



of which gall flowers occupy the lower part. From the great similarity of this to 

 the next species, I assume that its male flowers will be found to be pseudo-hermaphrodite, 

 and I therefore place it in this group. 



Plate 7. — F. lasiocarpa, Miq. Branch with mature receptacles. 1, lateral view of 

 receptacle; 2, apex of the same; 3, stipules— all of natural she ; 4, gall flower; 5 fertile 

 female flower (from another receptacle); 6, achene of the same : all enlarged. 



8. Ficus parietalis, Bl. Bij'J. 462 (ezel var.)\ Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt 2. 307; 



Ann. Mns. Lug d. Bat. iii. 277, 293. — F. Jungkuhnittna ', Miq., and F. rujipila, 



Miq., PI. Jungh. 56, bl ,—F. concent 'rica, Van Ilasselt MSS., Miq. I hoix de 

 pi. de Buitenzorgt. 11.— F. cerasiformis, Desf. Cat. ilort. Paris ed. 3. 413; 

 Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 428 ; Lein. Illust. Ilortic. V. t. 167. 

 F. acuminata, Bot. Mag. t. 3282 (not of Eoxb.).— F. phUbophylla, Miq. Fl 

 Ind. Bat. Supp. 174, 430.— ,F. grmdifolia, Wall. Cat. 4525 ; Miq. in Lond 

 Journ. Bot. vii. 432.-.F. Tabing, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Supp. 174, 430. 



A shrub or tree, often epiphytal; the young branches, receptacles, petioles, mid under 



eonaceous 



surfaces of the leaves rufescent-pubescent, sometimes rather scaberulous; 1 v 



petiolate, oblong- elliptic, ovate-elliptic, rarely obovate-elliptic, sometimes inequilateral ; apex 



rather abruptly and shortly linear-acuminate ; edges entire, revolute ; base rounded blunt, „r 



, *,*!..... 



acute, sometimes sub-cordate, 3- to 5 nerved ; primary lateral nerves 2 to 3 pain, i . . t ermedia t o 

 nerves transverse, reticulations distinct, all strongly prominent on the under nrface, the whole 

 of winch when young is covered with short straight hairs, many (Bometimca all) of which 

 disappear with age, leaving the under surface hard, sub-scabcrnlou , glahron , or glabrescent ; 



upper surface glabrous, smooth, shining, much darker than the lower; length of bh<lo 

 3 to as many as 12 in. ; petioles stout, hispid-pubescent, from -3 to -5 in. long • .tipuhs 

 small, ovate-acute, hirsute, about -3 in. long ; receptacles pedunculate, axillary, in pain 

 (solitary by abortion), globose, or ovoid, tapering towards the ebracteate base, apex rather 

 strongly umbonate especially whenyoung, hispid-tomentose ; when ripe yellow or orange, from 



bract, * r° SS 5 - P r l6S h T d ' ab ° Ut ' 5 "• l0nff ' S ° mctimes With * OT 3 -all ovate acute 

 bracts at their insertion on the stem; male flowers few, lying under the s, Jet of 



tl 



elongate segments ; stamen 1, invariably united by the b^ Tf T fZ ^ 



pedxeel of an abort™ pistil; gall flowers when mature large, rounded, with 



to 



short lateral 





