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UEOSTIGMA 



30. Ficus lowii, nov. spec 



powerful climber, the young branches and stipules covered with a deciduous brown 

 scurf, ultimately these, as are all the other parts, glabrous. Leaves very coriaceous, oblong, or 

 elliptic, the apex rather suddenly and shortly cuspidate, the margins thickened and strongly 

 revolute, base rounded or tapering slightly to the petiole, strongly 3-nerved, midrib very 

 prominent; lateral nerves only about 6 pairs, not prominent, reticulations obscure; lower 

 surface dull whitish, upper smooth, rather dull ; length 5 to 8 in. ; petiole stout, from 1 to 1 -75 

 in. long; stipules ovate-acuminate, convolute, from '5 to 1 in. long; receptacles crowded, sessile, 

 axillary, in pairs, globular, with a broad, flat, apical mamilla ; apical scales 3, flat ; yellow 

 with purplish spots when ripe, and about *75 in. across; basal bracts 3, rather small, broad, 



coriaceous; male flowers scattered over whole interior surface of receptacle, on thick pedicels, 

 the perianth of 4 pieces; anther 1, sessile, elongate; gall flower pedicillate or sessile, the 

 perianth of 5 distinct pieces, ovary smooth, style elongate, lateral, stigma elongate fiat 



bilobed; fertile female flower sessile, globose, tuberculate, with lung style and clavate stigma ; 

 ■when ripe the perianth degenerates into a glairy cellular mass. 



Malayan Peninsula, in the province of Perak, — Kunstler, Wrag. 



A remarkable species, very distinct from any other Urostigma. The leaves are very pale 

 in colour when dry, and are of a dull white beneath. 



I have named this after the Hon'ble Sir Hugh Low, British Resident in Perak, whose 

 interest in horticulture and botany is so well known. 



Plate 33. — F. Lowii, King. Fruiting-branch with rather small leaves. On the left hand 



corner is a larger leaf, on the right are two stipules and base and apex of a receptacle : all of 



natural size. 



Plate 82 u . — 1, unexpanded male flower ; 2, anther, the perianth being removed • 

 3, gall flower ; 4, fertile female flower : enlarged. 



31. Ficus pachyphylla, nov. spec. 



A climber? The young branches slightly covered with purplish scurf, but ultimately, like 

 all the other parts, quite glabrous ; leaves petiolate, thickly coriaceous, oUanceolate or narrowly 

 ovate-elliptic, shortly and bluntly cuspidate, edges entire, slightly revolute, base narrow* I, 



3-nerved; lateral primary nerves 7 to 8 pairs, not prominent, reticulations indistinct 

 lower surface dull, upper surface shining; length about 5 in. ; petioles '75 in., stout ; stipules 

 ovate-acuminate, about -5 in. long ; receptacles axillary, in pairs, sessile, turbinate to ovoid, apex 

 slightly umbonate, surrounded by a small annulus, apert, smooth; sides neither ridged nor 

 grooved; -5 in. long; basal bracts 3, broadly ovate-acute, their apices slightly thickened; male 

 flowers numerous, scattered, pedicillate, the anther sessile, perianth of 3 or 4 pieces ; gall flowers 

 sessile or pedicillate, the style elongate, stigma sometimes unequally bifid; fertile female 

 flowers very few, mostly sessile, the perianth, as in the galls, gamophyllous, 5-clef t, the 

 achene tuberculate. 



Sarawak in Borneo,— Beccari, P. B. 1303. 



Collected only by Signer Beccari. A species resembling F. ghbosa, Bl., var. manok, but 

 the Wwxth a much firmer texture and narrowed at the base, and the receptacle sessile. 



stipule 



Plate . 34.-Fruiting-branch of F pachyphylla, King, of natural L. 1 



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