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No. 4496D i F .'Ifysonnsis, Eeyne, vnr. repanda 



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4400 distributed asi: tomentosa, Herb. Madras, is F. Mgtormk, Heyne 



pubescen 



„ 4568A is F. M wrensis, Heyne, var. repm fa. 



„ 4568B is a small twig of something totally different whi< h I ha > not 



been able to identify, but which res. in bl eg one of tho forms of 



F. infectoria, WiUd. 



Plate 14.— i 7 . Mysorensis, Heyne. Fruiting-branch of the typical term, with separate 

 fiiruresof the apex of a twii: with two stipules detached; of a reoepta le so< n fromabote I of 

 basal bracts of a receptacle : all of natural size. 



Plate 15. — Fruiting-branch of F. Mysorensis, Il-yne, var. $uh - repa n < I a % with irpar 

 figure of base and apex and vertical section of a rc< pta le: oil of natural site, 



Plate 81 d . — 1, male flower; 2, gall flower; 3, fertile female : all enlarged. 



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15. Ficus jilosa, torn*, in Bl B{ 1. 4 4 6; J//7. (raft tfro#/.) £#& AV*. 1 



90,%; J 7 /. J«e\ Bat. i. /?/. 2. : 351 ; Zfoi/A. Fl. Austral, vi 104. — CT r 



bicorne, Miq, PL Jungh. 47; Mi<j. FL Ind. Hat. u pt. 9. 8 pt. 24A, 



£/r0$/. sub-cusp latum, Mi<|. /oil. Sy>t. Verz. 07. 



A large tree, with a few aerial roots; young parts covered with short floccuhht (usually 

 gray) tomentum which is speedily deciduous; loaves sub-coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to obot a to- 

 elliptic, narrowed, rounded, or truncate, often sub-cordate, and occasionally slightly unequal at 



the base; apex with a short, abrupt, blunt apiculus; cdj. > • utire, slightly undulate; 1 ngth of 

 blade 3*5 in. ; nerves about 8 to 1 1 pairs, curving and anastomosing mar ma. in; peti 

 •5 to '8 in.; stipules *4 to *6 in. long, membranous, rufous, tone ntote when ounL r ; n p. 

 tacles axillary, sessile, in pain, ovoid-i \ lindrical, umbonate, '75 in. long, reddish and 

 labrous when ripe, with 3 minute rounded membranous filiate bracts 'at tli ■ ir bases; male 

 flowers on short thick pedicels, the perianth of 4 hyaline pieces; anther 1, the filament stout, 

 short; gall flowers with gainophyllous 3- to 1 toothed, oblique, closely-eDibra< big perianth, 

 style elongate, stigma flattened, ovary smooth; i rtile female flowers very lik< the galls, 

 but the perianth less distinct and the achene broader and tuberculate. 



Var. chrysocoma. — F. chrysocoma^ BL Bijd. 443. — Urost. chrysoihrix, Miq. ; ZoIL 



Syst. Verz. 90, 96. 



Tomentum more copious than in type, and of a bright rufous colour. 



Penano-, Java, Borneo, and probably in other parts of the Malayan Archipelago ; 



NT. Australia. 



This species comes very near F. Mysorensis, II vne. and I greatly doubt wl thcr it should 



be kept separate. My own opinion is that further b» nation in the held will prove this 

 md Mysorensis to be but forms of one plant 



The variety chrysocoma runs exactly parall 1 to the variety pubescent of F. My 



Vone of the Indo-Malayan specimens of this in the II rbaria of Kew, Brit Museum, 1 



Utrecht, or Calcutta, have good fruit. I am therefore obliged to describe the receptax 

 from a specimen from Queensland 



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j g Twig of F.pilosa, Reinw. with ripe 1 ■ ■ptacles : of natural 



Plate 81 e .—l, unexpanded male flower; 2, male flo\* r opened out; 3, gall flower; 

 4 fertile female flower : ull enlarged. 



