UKOSTIGMA 



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to be the same as F. globosa, BL, and to that species I reduce it. On tlm Linnsaen riety's 



sheet of Wall Cat. 4566 there are glued down three leaves of F.owm ,. Wall, (which 



F. globosa, BL), the other leaves and the receptacles belonging to t ue m\ rostoma : an- 

 no doubt it is this confusion which misled Miquel. On the Calcutta Herbarium ih t of 

 Wall's 4566 there is no such mixture, the whole being true microstoma. Wall. 



Plate 44.— Frui ting-branch of F. microstoma, \\ all. Separate iigures of a stipule and 

 of base and apex of a receptacle : all of natural size. 



Plate 83\— 1, unexpanded male flower; 2, anther, the perianth being removed ; 3, gall 

 flower ; 4, fertile female : all enlarged. 



41. Ficus indica, Linn. Sp. Plant, ed. 2. pt. 2. 1511 (in part)] Mia. A 



Mm. Lugd. Bat. iii. 287 (excl. many of the synonym); Kurz f',r. J or* 

 Brit. Burnt, ii. 442. — F. sundiaca, Bl. Bijd. 450. — l T rost. mnauicui Miq 



Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 339 (in part).—/! rubcscau, Bl. Bijd. 4 i 

 Urost. rubesccns, Miq. Fl. Jnd. Bat. i. pt. 2. 338.— Urost. (ji<?a } Mi<j 



(not Roxb.) Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 580 (excl. syn); Fl. Jnd. Bat i. 

 pt. 2. 344 (excl. all synonyms except Urost. suna icum, Miq.). — Urost. tjmla, 

 Miq., var. sundiaca, Miq. PI. Jun«rh. 50. — F. prllucido-punclata, Grill 



Notulae iv. 394. t. 554. i ; Herb. Griff. 463(1, K< w Dm rib.— t hngifoh 



Ham. in Wall. Cat. 4570, C, D, and E in part — Varinga latifolia, Humph. 

 Herb. Amb. iii. 134. t. 84; also probably F. pscu<i»-rul,ra s Miq. in 



Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 287. — Urost. pseudo-rubra, Miq. PL Ind. 1 it. i. pt. 2 

 343 (partly). 



A large spreading tree, glabrous in all its parts except the stipul i; leav coriaceous 

 shortly petiolate, from broadly to narrowly oblong, apex acute or shortly caudati :icuminate, 

 edges entire, base narrowed, with 2 prominent and 2 small /'occasionally ubaolete) i» 

 nerves; lateral primary nerves about 4 to 6 pairs, not very prominent, reticulations distinct 

 both surfaces (but especially the upper) minutely tuberculate; length of blade 4 to 7 in. 

 and of petiole "3 to 1 in. ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, pubescent externally, '5 to 7 in. lonjr 

 receptacles crowded, in pairs, sessile, from axils of leaves or of fallen leave*, globula 



(ovoid or ellipsoid in var. Gelderi), smooth, yellowish-red when ripe and about -35 in. 

 across; basal bracts 3, rather larcre, ovate-acute, spreading; male flowers numerous, scattered, 



on long thin pedicels, the perianth of about 2 concave pieces, the antlx r elongate, 

 elliptic, sessile ; gall and fertile female flowers alike, except as regards the contents 

 of the ovary, ovary ovoid or elliptic, with along lateral style and oblique in fund ibid ii orm 

 stigma; ripe fertile achene tuberculate and viscid; gall flowers sometimes pedieillate. 



Assam and Burmah, rare: common in the Malayan peninsula and Archipelago, also in 



the Philippines. 



Var. Gelderi.— F. Gelderi, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 216, 287. 



Receptacles ovoid or ellipsoid, not globose. 



Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago. 



Linnseus quoted for his Ficus Indica so many plants— Indian, African, and American 

 that it is impossible to tell exactly what he intended to be considered as the type of this 

 species. The name Indica has been by subsequent authors attached for the most part to the 

 plant above described, because they believed it to be the plant intended to be portrayed in 

 Ilumphius's figure (Herb. Amb. iii. t. 84)— a figure which Linnseus did indeed (mote under 



