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PAL^OMOKPHE. 



with mature pedunculate receptacles. D.— Group of mature receptacles—*/ natural she. 



1 , male flower with rudimentary pistil ; 2, gall flower, from the same receptacle ; 3, young female 

 flower ; 4, perfect achene from another receptacle : all enlarged, 



10. Ficus celebica, Bl. Bijd. 461 ; Miq. Fl. Lid. Bat i. pt 2. 313 ; Miq. Ann. Mus. 



Lugd. Bat iii. 274, 292.— .F. lancifolia, Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 4">2 ; 

 Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 292. 



A sprawling, almost scandent shrub; the young branches rufous or tawny, hispid hirsute, 

 but with pale-coloured bark; leaves membranous, shortly petiolate, slightly inequilateral, 

 narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, gradually tapering to the long caudate-acuminate apex ; base 



acute or acuminate, often minutely auricled, 3- to 5-nerved (2 of the nerves beim* 



minute); edges remotely and rather irregularly serrate, entire towards the base ; lateral primary 

 nerves 4 to 6 pairs; the midribs, veins, and reticulations prominent below and covered with short 

 rufous hairs ; remainder of the under surface minutely papillose ; upper surface also minutely 

 papillose, glabrous ; length of blade 4 to 7 in. ; petioles -15 to -25 in., hirsute ; stipules subulate, 

 tomentose, about three times as long as the petioles ; receptacles very shortly pedunculate, 

 axillary or from above the scars of fallen leaves, solitary, in pairs, or in fascicles of 4 to 8* 

 ovoid and mammillate when young, sub-globose when mature, with rather prominent se.ni- 

 apert umbilicus, covered with long, rather stiff, straight, yellowish, partly deciduous hairs; 

 whitish m colour and about -2 in. across; basal bracts absent; peduncle from -05 to -1 in 

 long; male flowers only in receptacles with gall flowers with 1 stamen and 1 abortiv. pistil 

 perianth 3- to 5-cleft; gall flowers with gamophyllous 3-cleft perianth, the ovary stipitate, 

 ovoid, smooth, with rather long lateral style ; fertile female flowers not seen 



Uct^^f De VrkSe ' Tey8Mam ' y PMi H> itt ^-^«%; Perak,-;M,r (Ktyi Col- 



and tTl^L^^ f T: the , Celebe ; W "*■* ™^« With distinct peduncles, 

 and the leaves taper very much to either end. The Perak specimens have fascicled fruit with 



z r:^ :z t K b t g f rr into rektion ^ ^^X;^l^ 



must oe a near all\. It is also closely related to F obicura ttl +1.™ wk * i • , 



Blume founded his species scaler^ and which I ZTmI^ P ' Z I ™ u" 

 represented at Kew by a specimen from th P pmk !r hnetfola, Miq., u 



own hand. It is in my opinion J ' celZ El. ^ ( *■** ^ Damcd b >' ^ d ' 8 



Vae. Kunstleei. 



oftentllet ^ — ** « »* ^ ' * *» ** 



6 



Plate 1 O.-Fruiting-branch of F. ceUua, Mio A - Var JT « 



the side: 2, anex nf ™~ *. i 1# Var - &unstl 



.** ^\£J? ** ^Ptade^/ natural si,e: 3. no. 



tapering; receptacles global 



i 



natural 



1, receptacle seen 



4, anther and abortive pistil f the same Cp^antTof ' T^ ° f ma,e *""« 



6, achene of the same : N». 3 to 6 «« /« ' *' P . h ° f lnse ct-attacked female flower 





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