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ritOSTIGMA. 



broad, blunt, sometimes truncate apex, entire edges and much-narrowed, strongly 3-nerved 

 base; lateral primary nerves about 5 pairs, very prominent below, as are the reticulations; 

 len^h of blade 2-5 to 4-5 in., of petiole '3 to -6 in. ; stipules lanceolate, about '5 in. long; 



receptacles much crowded near the apices of the branches, axillary, sessile, in pairs, 

 depressed-spheroidal, reddish-yellow, smooth, and from -2 to -25 in. across when ripe ; apical 

 scales broad, flat, shining, surrounded by a ring ; basal bracts 3, large, free, ovate-rotund ; 



male flowers few, and only near the apex of receptacle, sessile, the perianth of 3 broad 



pieces, longer than the single ovate, sagittate, nearly sessile anther ; gall and fertile female 

 flowers sessile, with similar perianth of 4 or 5 small ovate pieces ; ovary of galls ovoid- 

 acuminate, with long straight terminal style; achene of fertile female ovate-rotund, tuberculate, 



the style sub-terminal and bent at right angles. 



Borneo, —Korthals ; J ava, —Zollinger ; Malayan Peninsula, — Kunstler (King's Collector)^ 



1017, 6018. 



A very distinct species. 



Plate 48. — Fruit ing-branch of F. truneata, Miq. ; separate drawings of base and apex 

 of receptacle and stipules : all of natural size. 



Plate 83 f . — 1, male flower; 2, gall flower; 3, fertile female achene : all enlarged. 



46. Ficus obtusifolia, Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 546 ; Wight Ic. t. 662 ; Kurz For. Flore 



Brit. Barm. ii. 443. — Urost. obtusifolium , Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 569 

 F. longifolia, Herb. Ham. in Wall. Cat. 4570A, B. 



A large tree, very often epiphytal at first, all parts glabrous ; leaves thickly 



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short-petioled, shining, oblong-elliptical or obovate-elliptical ; apex rounded, blunt, or very 

 slightly and bluntly apiculate ; edges entire, slightly undulate ; base acute, faintly 3-nerved ; 

 primary lateral nerves obscure, about 8 to 10 pairs ; the secondary nerves nearly as prominent 

 as the primary, the reticulations obsolete ; length of blade 4 to 7 in. ; petioles -5 to '75 in., stout ; 

 stipules lanceolate or ovate-acuminate, -6 in. to 1 in. long ; receptacles rather crowded, in pairs,' 

 sessil , axillary, but chiefly in the axils of the scars of fallen leaves, globular, slightly trigonous, 

 depressed at the apex, yellowish when ripe and dotted; basal bracts 3, coriaceous, large^ 

 blunt, rounded, cordate ; male flowers scattered, very numerous, on long pedicels, the perianth 

 of 3 lanceolate pieces; gall flowers pedicillate or sessile, the perianth of about 4 pieces, 

 ovary spherical, white, style sub-terminal, elongate : fertile female flowers sessile, the achene 

 ovate-rotund, tuberculate and viscid from degeneration of its epidermal cells, the style lateral 

 as long as the achene, stigma infundibuliform. 



Tropical forests of the base of the Eastern Himalaya ; in Assam and in Burmah ; Perak 



in Malayan Peninsula. 



Plate 49,-Fruiting-branch of F. obtusifolia, Roxb. ; separate figures of base and 



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of receptacles and of stipules of the ovate-acute form : all of natural 



Plate 83-.-1, male flower ; 2, gall flower ; 3, achene of fertile" female : all enlarged. 



apex 



Sub-series 6.— leaves coriaceous or sub-coriaceous, the primary and 



condary 



equally prominent, close together, straight and anastomosing little except near the margin. 



47. Ficcs clusioides, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. m.-Urost. cluszoides, Miq 



Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 579 



.pextSltH^irT^ Peti ° kte ' 0We -° bl ^ -Wathulate 



y snortly and bluntly cuspidate, margin entire, thickened, base narrowed 



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