UBOSTIGMA. 



On the plains and on the lower slopes of mountain ranges in Burmah, the Malayan 



peninsula and islands. Common. 



F rm. • „ ~^w Hiafm' Wfid snecies. and therefore assumes several forms. 1 lie commonest 



This is a widely distributed species 

 of these is that with broadly-based glabrous leaves, which Blume (from the curious annulus 

 near the apex of the receptacular pedicel) called annulata. The mountain form, with the 

 bases of the leaves narrowed, he called F. flavescens, and to this Miquel added the synonym 

 F. biverrueellum, which he himself afterwards reduced. The form, with leaves slightly hairy 

 below, sericeous stipules and short tomentose pedicels, Blume called valida ; and on the 

 specimens of this form from various parts of the Malayan Archipelago, Miquel at different 

 times founded his two species Urostigma depressum and conocarpum. I have examined the types 

 of all these at Leiden and Utrecht, and I find the differences between them and typical 

 F. annuiata, Bl. so slight that it is only in deference to the authority of Blume that I keep as 

 varieties the two most divergent of these, viz. flavescens and valida. The curious annulus on 



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the pedicel is common to all the forms. 



Var. 1. flavescens (species Bl.) F. biverrueellum, Miq. Bases of leaves much 



narrowed. 



This form, which occurs chiefly in Burmah, received specific rank from Blume and Miquel. 

 In Java and the other Malayan islands it is confined to mountain slopes about 5,000 ft. 

 above the sea. In the neighbourhood of Calcutta and about other stations in Lower Bengal 

 it is in cultivation under the name of F. magnifolia. 



Var. 2. valida (species BL). Leaves puberulous below, especially on the nerves ; 



stipules adpressed-sericeous beneath ; pedicels only -25 in. long, very tliick, 

 deciduously tomentose. 



Plate 22.— Twig of F. annulata, with an almost mature receptacle. Separate draw- 

 ings of one of the largest stipules, and views of apex and base of a receptacle : all i 



natural size. 



Plate 23.— Twig of F. annulata, var. valida, with two nearly ripe receptacles. 



Separate drawings to show base, apex, and sides of receptacles, and two stipules of the 

 smaller size. 



Plate 81 1 . — 1, male flower; 2 stamen, the perianth being removed; 3, gall flower; 



4, fertile female flower: enlarged. 



22. Ficus beddomei, nov. spec 



A tree ? All parts glabrous, young branches thick, with pale bark ; leaves coriaceous, long- 

 peholate, ovate-rotund or broadly orate, shortly acuminate, edges entire, slightly undulate, 

 base broad, truncate, or very slightly emarginate, 3-nerved ; lateral primary nerves nearly 

 at nght angles to the midrib, about 1 2 pairs, prominent on both surfaces ; length of blade 

 about 7 m. breadth at broadest part rather more than 4 in.; petioles stout, about 2-5 in. 

 long ; shpules lanceolate about -5 in. long ; receptacles pedunculate, axillary, in pairs, 

 avoid or shghtly obovom, wrth a rather prominent apical nmbilicus and several vertical 

 ndges, smooth 1 m. long and about -75 in. across, basal bracts 3, small, broadly triangular, 

 coriaceous, urn ted by the* bases ; peduncles stout, -75 in. long ; male flowers, numerous, 

 sctered shortly pedmdlate, the anther broad, single, sessile, the perianth of 2 or 3 pieces 



gall and fertue female flowers shortly pedicillate, the perianth of 4 or 5 lanceolate piece 



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