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UKOSTIGMA. 



Plate 19.— Frmting-branch of F. hracteata, Wall. 1, stipules; 2, base of receptacle; 



3, apex of receptacle showing basal bracts : all of natural sue. 



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



Sub-series 2.— Leaves coriaceous, more or less ovate or elliptic, bases not cordate, 



glabrous at all times (P. Forstenii and altissima are pubendous when youn,/). 



19. Ficus chrysolepis, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 215, 28G. 



A tree- all the adult parts glabrous except the stipules and basal bract s of the receptacles; 

 leaves coriaceous, lanceolate-oblong, apex shortly acuminate, edges entire, base narrowed) 

 3-nerved; lateral primary 10 to 13 pairs, rather prominent beneath; length of blade about 

 7 in.; petioles 1*25 in. long, stout; stipules small, membranous, densely covered with Ion 



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yellowish hairs, about *6 in. long; receptacles long-pedunculate, axillary, solitary, or in pairs, 

 ovoid-globose when immature, globose when mature, 1*5 in. long by 1*25 in. broad; the apex 



partially closed by 3 large scales, through the interspace between the apices of which 



the smaller more internal scales protrude; bracts of the base of the receptacle 3, minute 

 spreading, triangular, yellowish, hirsute externally, rising from the peduncle a little below the 

 base of the receptacle; peduncle stout, '7 in. long, with a few yellow hairs at the base ; male 

 flowers very numerous over whole surface of interior of receptacle, on long pedicels, the 

 anther single, sessile, perianth of 2 or 3 pieces ; gall flowers on long pedicels, the perianth of 



4 or 5 pieces, the ovaries smooth, much smaller than those of the fertile female flowers 

 which are sessile with tuberculate achenes. 



Celebes, — Teysmann. 



Apparently a large tree. The fruit is nearly that of prmi/ormis, but the lea\ 

 stipules are very different. It also resembles F. amulata, Bl., but the peduncular animlus 



just under the basal bracts of the receptacle, and which is so characteristic of F. anauUtu. 

 is absent in this. 



Plate 20.— Branch of F. chrysolepis, Miq. with ripe receptacles. Sej irate drawings of 

 apex of receptacle and of unripe receptacle seen from the side. 



Plate SI 1 .— 1, male flower; 2, gall flower; 3, fertile female flower; 1, achene of 



fertile female : all enlarged. 



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Frcus pruniformis, BL Bijd. 451; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lu;,d. Bat. iii. 266, 



286 (sub Urost); Zoll. Syst. Verz. 91, 97 ; FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, ! Y2 ; Supp. 

 177, 440?— P. depressa, Bl. Bijd. 450; Miq. Ann. Mus. Lu-,1. Bat. iii. 



286; Miq. (sub Urost.) Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 351 (non Urost. dep 



Miq. in Zoll. Syst. Verz. 90, and Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 576, which 



F amulata, Bl).— Urost. peracutum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 34 

 A powerful stem-clasping epiphyte or large tree; all parts except the stipules tlabl 



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leaves coriaceous, long-petiolate, lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate 

 base much narrowed, rarely rounded, 3-nerved: lateral 



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, apex acuminate, edges entire, 



primary nerves, 6 to 10 pai 



pronnnent beneath; length of blade 4 to 6 in.; petiole slender, -8 to 1-3 in. lor, ; stipules 

 near lanceolate, -6 to -8 m. long, pubescent outside ; receptacles long-pedunculai , axillary, 



