n itigma. 



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In Ins edition o! Linn. 8p. Plant, iv. 1136, WiUfemw. bavin- apparei ■ dis* vered 

 his mistake, accepts for this fjm . i. s Loxburgh's then unpublish, I mime (Roxburgh 



FL Ind. was published as regards /*«* m 1882) tmmlm. and reduces to /*s«i»fess. Roxb 



F.svsflb, Yah mb. M i quel (Zonal ./ mm. Dot \. '\ I considt / />»6e*«» 1 h 



/V. Spec. Ind. Or. 387), to be the same as this pedes; but Koth's 6Ys< ription appears t 



to fit f\ Mr/mrensui, llcyne, much better, e*}»e • ially u* to tlie reoepta s, which K<»th 



-a} s are red, of the &e of a clierry. with an ob> lcte 5-partito, green pubescent cab 



Roth, however, at p. 390 of the same book also describes / Mtfmm . hxae, and 



one is thus obliged to believe that he d< ribed the same plant under two nam.-. 



The species described us J\ asinina bv Ihich. Hani, in / / ant. w. L38, in I 



specimens so nam. I y his own hand md which were i>sucd by Wullich as N l I CA 



<>f his Catalogu) are true /'. tomttitosa, Koxb. llamilt n's specific n mo, as h> n use If 



tells us, Avas given from the fact that the tree is called by the native * f Bchai Qttddha 



ke- Hliar," or Donkey 9 ! Banyan— a i mio wlii h up to the pr< -nt time < the urront 

 vernacular for /'. totnento* Koxb. 



Urost. obre, um and U) ft conni tit, \\'u\. are, as I have satisfied m\ If b\ n\ union 



of the type specimens in the Herbarium at I'trecht, onlv i mis of F. tonuntota. Iloxh. 



F. gluir.osa, Cail. Delil< , mi African plant, diffi I from the pr< nt p< > only h 



having shortly pedunculat receptacles furnished v ith a few ft) hairs, and in 



having smaller basal brad 



Plate 1*. — Brum \ \ oi F. foment 08< Etoxb. with ripe i • ptacloe. 1. young reoepta le 



showing per; 2, base of th<' same, showing the slightly tritid basal bni ts : all oj natural sin 

 (These fruits are not very well drawn.) 



Plate 81*. — 3, male tl werj 4, gull flower; 5. fertile femah all mlargtd. 



18. V\ 08 BRACTEATA, WalL G*& 1 1!>S; Miq, in Land. Jot/rn. If. vi. 578 ; A ] fu*. 



Lugd. J> it. iii. 28 



powerful scandent epiphyte; the young branches, lower snrfa<< > . f hares and f 



stipules, the petiol , and th i ptai dons Iv on red with deciduous r< Id h -brown 



flocculent tomentum ; leaves c iaoeou . i delate, o1k>- ite hlong, with an abrupt, short, blunt 



apiculus, entire edges, and cord at . sli htly unequal, truncate, 5-tjer lhasc: 1 tcml prin n 

 nerves 4 to 6 pairs, prominent b neath; upp r surf; • smooth, except the mid ib, which is 



persistently rusty-tomentose ; lower surf a 1* omingin adult leav. pu 1 >< •><• en t or sub-glabrous 





length 7 to 11 in.; petiol< i *7 to i- 5 in.: stipules flac 1. o^ tte-acumi ate, I in. b> 1 in. 



densely tomentose on the midrib outside * ptoses sessile, cr wded St the . of the 



branches in the axil of the undevclo] 1 leaves, globular or tu I anal slightl trig* u 



densely tomento* ei n wh o ri] •, brij !.t oran , I to- aero. basal bra * or I md 



rounded, scarious, glabl us: mal flowers ats rod OTer all ] irts 01 rec pt:. ■ Ic |»d ilh.t. 

 the perianth of 2 or 8 h din pieces; anth r 1. th filament very lh rt: mil nWrs 



th gamophyllous, 3-to thed perianth closelj cnvelomng the smooth oroid van-; fertile 

 female flower with loosely atta bed perianth of 4 lanoeolate piaees, the a bene elongr- 



\v 



often sessile ; the interior 'of the r< ptad with num. us lanceolate scab 



Penan-, Singapore - M Utok, Kmg\ 3 a.-7 rbe$. 



The enormous kmg-persil ent prefoliar stipules (really leaf-scales) b rnc n the ipi 

 of the branches and surrounding the densely tomentose young fruit at once distinguish th 

 from any other specie of the section Vrodigma. 



