ritOSTKJMA 



IT 



basal bracts, aro densely hairy, when ripe puln-cnt and al«out 



1 





nsely hairy, about -3 in. lonjr : male flov rs very few, and «ih near ip x of ret .tad . 



w sfle, globular, the perianth of 3 < .ncave Branded pieco mm 1, the antlx i nth 



de connective, filam at thick admit.-: gall {Won on thick podiotk the ovarv oUvoid. 

 smooth, stylo short, perianth gamopliy lions fertile i. male flov rs, sessile, tl ltene o\: 



style lon<r lateral, stigma cylindri . 



Southern Indi Xilgiri mountains, fr m 000 to 3,000 ft.,— Wight, £***&, ffita 



An umbrageous tree, from 80 to 40 ft. high. 



Miquel (in Lond. Journ. Bat. vi. 71) suggests that F. ratnenfacm, Roxb. mu be near 



this. Roxburgh, however, deacril)ea (Fl. Ind i iii. >i; ) hi* r amenta era a- having very gio ^ . . 



shortly petiolate Laves, and the branch' > as bearing rootlet-, and hi- M v colour I fij 



tlie library of the Botanic Garden, Calcutta (published by Wight as lc II ] I, oonfirn 



description in those particulars. Roxburgh figure is that of a ll<nu"«i» twig, ami 

 (notwithstanding Roxburgh's desi ription of F. ramc 'arm as a sin. ill tree) that it <* reallv ail 



lagg 



if not identical 



A. t 



epiphytal climber, closely l ambling, 



Miquel. I have never had Roxbm li's plant tent to me from Chit t a tig, where K< shuf| 



found it; but Kurz collected in Bunnah a scamhut epiphytal paries \ hicli llentl 



with Roxburgh's figure ai 1 (except as to habit) w th his d< ription of ra ind tl 



plant Kurz (in his Forest Flora of Brit. Burnt, ii. 11) describes as / ra Rox 



In the absence of a s] cimen nam 1 by Roxburgh himself, it would l>e unsafe to assert 



positively that his mmmtm / i> idontii d with F. rigescens, Uirj. ; but I think tin* in on tin 



whole much more probable than Miqud's suggestion that it is near /'. Dal/iousio M 



Plate 11. — Fruit ing-bi ach of Ficu* Dathousuc, Mi<|. : sr] rate drawing! of a receptacle 



seen from the side, of its basal bracts, ami f stipules, all of na iral sim ; and of tlie apex of 

 a receptacle, enlarged in f> re. 



Plate 81". — 1, male flower unexpanded ; & 3, anting; 1, gall flol ; . r >, j ii le 

 female flower enclosed in it- j" riant h <>, ripe achem \ all enlarged. 



12. F. SAXOphila, Bl. h id. 437 J Decaune A uv. Ann. Mm. iii. 493; M . in la*. 



Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 287; Ft. Ind. Bat. i. r L & 338. 

 A glabrous tree : the leaves p tiolato, thinly < »riaoeou shining above, ovat oblong, aj> I 



acute ed^es entire, base sub-< rdate or cordate, prominently ma d. with 2 mini 



> wv *o 



subsidiary nerves, lateral primary n rves about 5 pair-; length f blade 4 » to 7 in 



petioles 1 in. to 1 *75 in. long ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, pubescent, about I in. 1 ag reccp 

 tacles axillary, sessile, in pairs, d saed-gl hose, smooth, umbonatc; basal bra t* 3, a ill 



broad, blunt; male flowers few, and only near tl j mouth of the rocepta lc. tl perianth f 

 :] di tinet pieces; stamen 1, the anther broadly ovat , filament short: gall fl - « 





elongated obovoid ovary and short sub-terminal style; fertile f nale flowers f 

 ovoid the style elon. ited, lateral, perianth (as in the ill flow ») f 5 lanoeols 



Java,— Bkm Islands of Tin * ami Boer , in the Malay Archij Ii <>.- '•*. 



The leaves of this dry of a pale green colour. It is a * ry distin t pecies, but i ill 

 represented in collections. 



Plate 12.-Fruiting-branch of F. saxophila, BL; s parate figure of baae o 1 apex of 



receptacle : all of natural size. 



Plate 81 h .-l, male flower; 2, gall flower; 3, feitilo female all enlarged. 



