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Sub-scries 4. — Leaves coriaceous, tapering at base and apex ; basal bract* of rt&p- 

 taclcs neither large nor prominent. 



38. Ficus glaberrima, Bl.Bijd.A'A ; Miq. in Ann, Miis. Lugd. Bat. iii. 286. — Unut 



glaberrimum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 340. — F. angustfolia, Roxb. FI. 



Ind. iii. 554.—?^. bistipulata, Griff. Notulae Dicot. PI. pt. 4. 398. t. 6 

 fig. 1. — F. Thomsoni) Miq. Ann. Mus. Lu<:d. Bat. iii. 215, 286; 1 urz For 



Flora Brit. Burm. ii. 443.— F. fratcrna, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii 



217, 287.— F, aurantiaca, Wall. Cat. 4565 (non Griff.). 



A tall glabrous tree, the under surfaces of the leaves and the young branches b ing 

 minutely pubescent; leaves membranous, elliptic, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate, 

 edges entire, base acute or narrowed, rarely rounded, 3-nerved ; upper surface shining; 

 lateral main nerves 8 to 10 pairs, at about right angles to the midrib, n<»t v< ry prominent; 

 leno-th of blade 5 to 8 in.; petioles *8 to T25 in. long, slender; stipules glabrous, 

 linear-lanceolate, fugacious, '5 in. to *75 in. long; receptacles pedunculate, axillary, in 

 pairs slightly verrucose when young, globular, smooth, orange -co loured when ripe an 

 about *25 in. in diameter ; basal bracts 3, broad, minute, pubescent, deciduous ; pedum los 25 in. 

 to *35 in. Ion"-* male flowers few, and only near the mouth of the receptarles, sub-sessile, th 



perianth of 4 lanceolate pieces; stamen 1, the anther broad, the filament short ; gell flow* 

 sessile or on short thick pedicels, the perianth gamophyllous, 4-eleft ; fertile fern I<» 

 when ripe with viscid achenes and no perianth. 



Damp forests along the base of the Himalaya from Bhutan to Dclira Dhui in which 

 latter locality it has only been once gathered (by Mr. Duthie, of the SahanmpOW Botanic 

 Garden) ; Burmah; the Andaman Islands; Java and other of the Malayan Islands, at cle\ itimis 

 of from 1,000 to 3,500 ft. above the sea. The receptacles of this speci< s are often attack. I 

 by an insect and become hypertrophied to three or four times their normal size. There 

 considerable diversity as to the persistence of the pubescence on the leaves in this sp< ics, 

 the leaves of some individuals retaining their hairs much longer than others, but all ultimately 

 becoming glabrous; and there are two distinct forms of the base of the leaf, specimen! 

 from Chittagong having leaf bases broad and rounded, while those from Sikkim and Khasi 



have much attenuate bases. 



The specimen (Ficus No, 123 Herb, Ind. Or, Hook, fil, and Thorn,) on which Miquel 

 founded his species F, Thomsoni agrees absolutely with the type of F. glabcrrima, BL m 



Herb. Leiden and with specimens in Herb. Utrecht named F, glaberrima, BL in MiquePa own 

 handwriting. FicusNo. 123 of Hook. fil. and Thomson's Indian Herbarium differs from No. 12 



of the same herbarium (the type of F, fraterm, Miq.) only in the latter being abso hit I v 

 glabrous. Moreover this No. 122 agrees in every respect with Roxburgh's unpubhsl d 

 drawing of his species angustifolia-* species, by the way, which Miquel does not account for. 

 Griffiths figure of bistipulata agrees well with this plant, although his description does not. 

 This species comes very near F. nervosa, Heyne and F. putmerm, BL, and I am incline! to 



think the three should be united specifically. 



Plate 43.-Fruiting-branch of F. glaberrima, Bl. 1, base of receptacle; 2, apex of 



receptacle; 3, stipules: all of natural size. 



Plate 82^.-4, male : 5, gall ; 6, fertile female achene : all enlarged. 









