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UKOSTIGMA. 



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ith reddish-brown flocculent deciduous tomentum, otherwise glabrous ; leaves 



coriaceous, narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate (broadly sub-obovate-elliptic mvar. 

 wftli a rather short, blunt, abrupt acumen, edges entire, base narrowed, 3 -nerved ; lateral 

 primaiy nerves distinct, not very prominent, from 5 to 8 pairs; length of blade 3 to 7 in., 

 breadth 1-5 in. to 2'5 in. ; petioles -75 to 1*25 in. long ; stipules membranous, ovate-lanceolate, at 

 first densely tomcntose, ultimately glabrous, '75 to 1*25 in. long, caducous ; receptacles crowded 

 near the apices of the branches, axillary, sessile, depressed-spheroidal, flocculent when young, 

 glabrous when ripe, about -4 in. to -6 in. across ; apical bracts flat, shining ; basal bracts 3, 

 broadly ovate, keeled, sometimes bifid ; male flowers numerous, scattered over the whole 



surface of the receptacle, pedicillate ; the anther single, sessile, the perianth of 2 concave 

 pieces; gall and fertile female flowers similar, sessile, the perianth of 5 pieces ; the gall 

 achene ovoid-reniform, that of the fertile female broadly ovoid, tuberculate, the perianth 

 degenerate into gelatinous tissue. 



Java and Sumatra. 



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Besides Blume's type specimen at Leiden and Zoll.'s {Cat. 561) there are but few 

 examples of this in herbaria. The species comes near procera, Bl., and especially so through 

 the variety Murtoni, but it is tomentose and has narrower leaves than procera. 



VaR. Ml KTONI. 



All parts larger and less flocculent than in the typical form ; leaves sub-obovate-elliptic 

 to ovate, with rounded or sub-cordate base ; apex blunt ; receptacles -6 in. across. 



Southern part of the Malayan Peninsula. Originally collected at Malacca by Griffith 

 (4593), recently collected in Perak {King's Collector, 5330, 6460, 6692, 2512, 325). This 

 form is intermediate between typical procera, Bl. and typical consociata, Bl. To the' former 

 it approximates by its more or less obovate-elliptic leaves, large receptacles, and smooth 

 coriaceous basal bracts ; to consociata it approximates in tomentum. 



lWE36.-Fruiting-branch of consociata, Bl. Separate drawings of stipules and base 

 and apex of receptacle : of natural size. 



roJ'T'r 37 -- Fr , uit 7- branch f of * ~^> Bl, var. Murtoni. 1, basal bracts after 

 bud of al -"I 5 ;-T f CeptaCle 5 *' ^ ° f reC6 P tacle *«"*«* !«**" I 4- terminal 



Dud or a twig showing stipules : of natural 



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Plate8v.— 1, vertical section (from the side) of a ™*1p fl^^^ u • A i_ i A - i 

 thp nntlior gt>a ™ • 4.1. n .1 1 j OI a male nower, showing the relation of 



the anther and perianth ; 2 anther, the perianth beins- removed • <* ™11 fl„ a i, * 



fertile female : all enlarged. g ' 3 ' gal1 fl ° Wer ; 4 ' achene ° f 



34. Ficus 



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A large epiphyte ; the young parts pube 1 

 the stipules and basal bracts of the recent 1 ^ T' ultimatel 7 a11 P arts glabrous except 

 abruptly and shortly apiculate ; edges en t ^ * I *** COriaceous > broadly elliptic or oval, 

 the nerves minute) ; lateral nerves about 5 ™ ' round ed or sub-acute, 5-nerved (2 of 



petioles -5 to '8 in. long ; stipules coii JZ^ T Y ^^ ; length of blade 3 to 4 ~ ' 



iptacles axillary, in pairs, sessile, 



11TnK . . > pubescent outside, '7 b to 1-3 in.; 



donate when young; when ripe ovoid? 1]ow with red 



