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UROSTIGMA. 



39. Ficus kowelliana, tiov. spec 



A strong climber when adult; all parts except the receptacles quite glabrous; leaves 

 petiolate, coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, with entire, cartilaginous, slightly revolute 

 edges; base rounded, faintly 5 -nerved; both surfaces shining, upper surface pale (when dry) 

 lateral nerves about 6 pairs, not prominent, reticulations indistinct on both surfaces 

 length of blade 4 to 6 in. ; petioles thick, succulent, *5 in. long ; stipules • • • • 



receptacles short-pedunculate (axillary ?), slightly obovate or globose-umbonate, slightly 

 pubescent ; when ripe almost black (when young of a sepia colour with pale grey spots 

 (fide Forbes), rather more than 1 in. across; peduncles *6 in. long with 3 minute bracts 

 about the middle; male flowers mixed with the gall flowers all over the inner surface of 

 the receptacles, monandrous, the anther curved, the filament adnate ; perianth of 2 to 3 

 short pieces ; gall flowers sub-sessile, the perianth of 3 to 4 linear leaves, the ovary 

 obovate or pyriform, with a short thick sub-terminal style ; fertile female flowers not seen. 



Eastern Sumatra, at 2,000 ft.,— H. 0. Forbes (Herb, 3026). 



This very distinct species has been collected only once, and the material is rather 

 scanty. Mr. Forbes describes it as a gigantic climber. None of the specimens collected 

 by Mr. Forbes have receptacles bearing fertile female flowers; the receptacles collected are all 



filled with male and gall flowers. I have named this species in honour of my friend 

 Dr. Irvine Rowell, Surgeon -General to the Government of the Straits Settlements. 



Plate 43 A.—F. Eowelliana, King. 1 & 2, receptacles— of natural size ; 3, male flower- 

 4, gall flower : enlarged. 





40. Ficus microstoma, Wall. Cat 4566. 



A tree, with all its parts glabrous ; leaves coriaceous, petiolate, ovate-elliptic to obovate- 

 elliptic, the apices shortly, abruptly and bluntly cuspidate, or occasionally rounded, blunt, and 

 non-cuspidate, the edges entire; base narrowed, 3-nerved; primary lateral nerves 4 to 7 

 pairs, rather prominent beneath; length of blade 3 in. to 6-5 in. ; petioles -5 in. to 1-25 in., 

 rather slender; stipules -5 in. long; receptacles sessile, in pairs, axillary, pisiform, dotted, 

 glabrous, prominently umbonate ; the apex perforated ; basal bracts 3, broadly ovate, 

 tree ; male flowers scattered over all parts of receptacle, pedicillate, the perianth of 2 

 broad concave pieces ; anther 1 , elongate ; gall flowers with ovoid ovary and hooked 

 stigma, the pemnth, as in the fertile female, of 4 lanceolate pieces ; fertile females with 

 broadly ovate achene, the style not hooked. 



Southern part of the Malayan Peninsula,- Wullich, Emitter. 



Fiji ;?T' WlUCh USUall3 n ° VerlaP S ° M t0 Cl ° Se the a P ex of the receptacle in the genus 

 Jhm, are m this species partially united to form a kind of annulus, in the centre of which 



there 



comparatively wide opening leading into the interior of the receptacle. While the 



Jtaqnel (2UL4* r*n. 96, and m Ann. Mus. Lu 9 d. Bat. in. 285) considers th 

 b very near the plant issued by Zollinger as No. 753 of his Herbarium 

 the name Urost. rnwok, and to manok he reduces 



to 



/.oil. s No. 753 with the specimens issued by Wallich fl * P 



J ~^, Wall, is not only quite different W ,1 a "Z "TlTST* 



distinct from any hitherto described ^„ * JIi t „ ?,' ? 3 *"*. that Jt 



, to which Miquel gives 

 microstoma, Wall. But a comparison of 



microstoma convinces me that 



very 



species. F. manok, Miq. (Zoll. No. 753) appears to me 



