FRO KIMA. 



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stipules ovate-acute, sericeous-pubescent externally, glabrous v ithia, al>out •*> in. long; rec« p- 

 tacles numerous, crowded towards the extremities of the branch in pairs from axils of 

 leaves or of fallen leaves, turbinate, the apex much flatt< -m . I, the umbilical scales large and 

 smooth, yellow when ripe, '25 in. across; basal bracts 3, htrge, ovate-rotund, puberulous: male 

 flowers scattered, on long thin pedicels; anther elongate, si silo ; the perianth of 2 or 3 

 concave pieces; gall and fertile female flowers similar except as regards contents el ov 

 the perianth of 3 blunt pieces, style elongate, stigma slightly infundibuliforni ; fertil acheiio 

 tuberculate. 



A large tree, epiphytal in early life. 



Malayan Peninsula, in Perak, — Kunstler\ Banka, — T<//sm«nn. 



Plate 46. — Fruiting-branch of F. acamptophylla, Biiq. 2, leaf with very shortly cuspidate 

 apex ; 2, base of receptacle showing the bracts ; 3, apex showing the apical scales; 4. stipules 



all of natural size. 



Plate 83<». — 5, unexpanded male flower; 6, male flower, the perianth being cut oil 

 7, female flower ; 8, fertile achene : all enlarged. 



44. Ficus BiNNENDYKii, Miq. Ann. 3fus. Lugd. Baf. iii. 288. — Sub Ur 4., Fl, hid 



Bat. i. pt. 2. 341. 



A glabrous tree; leaves petiolate, coriaceous, lanceolate, rar< 1 oblanc olate, apex acumi- 

 nate, margin entire, slightly revolute, base acute, rather prominently 3-nerved ; hit- ral 

 primary nerves about 5 pairs, not prominent, reticulations stron , but indistim 1 ; 1 ngth of 

 blade 2'5 to 3 in. ; petioles about *5 in. long, not disarticulating from the blade wli n dry; 



stipules linear-lanceolate, convolute, *7 in. Ion g ; receptacles small, crowded, le, in p 



tly from axils of fallen leaver, smooth, depressed-globose, # 2 in. across, with 3 rather 



large broadly-ovate, blunt, spreading, free basal bracts; male flowers more numerous than tin 



females, scattered, sessile, the perianth of 3 broad elliptic piec< with pellucid 



iiiarL' 



anther single, on a short filament; gall and fertile female flow rs similar ex. pt as to tli 

 contents of the ovary, sessile, the perianth of 3 or 4 pieces, ovary ovate rotund, the style long 



sub-terminal. 



Java, — Borneo. 



Near F. glabella, Bl., but distinguished from that species by its smaller, more 

 coriaceous, shorter, petiolate leaves, which rarely tend to be oblanceolate and are never 

 obovate; also by its smaller receptacles, with basal bracts larger in proportion to the 



receptacles. 



Plate 47.— Two fruiting-branches of F. BinnendgJcl>\ the upper with lar r receptacles than 

 usual. 1, apex of receptacle ; 2, base of ditto ; 3, basal bracts ; 4, stipules : all ofnstom . 



Plate 83 e .— 5, male flower : 6, female flower; 7, achene of fertile female : all enlarg L 



, XlAt*!.^ i^*»V,X , V, 



Sub-series 5.— Leaves coriaceous, narrowly dliptk or oblanceolate, with broad blunt 



ap 1 ces 



. 45. Ficus teuncata, Miq. sub Urost. in ZoU. Sgst I rz. 01, 07; Miq. FL TmL 



Bat. i. pt. 2. 330 ; Ann. Mm. Lugd. Bat. iii. 2SG. 



A small tree; the young parts, and especially the under surface of tie I - thinly 

 covered with brown deciduous powder, with which are mixed a few mmute hairs, ultimat h 

 all parts -labrous; leaves coriaceous, crowded, short-petiolute, obovate or cuneate-oblong, with 



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