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UEOSTIGMA. 



male flowers very 



few 



scattered, pedicillate, the perianth of 



2 large flat 



pieces; anther 



spathulate 



long 



almost sessile; gall flowers mostly pedicillate, the perianth of 3 or 4 



pieces, ovary ovoid, smooth; fertile female flowers sessile, the perianth pieces short- 



spathulate, achene ovoid-reniform, longer than the style, stigma large. 



Var. comosa. 



Fruit large, globose, narrowed at the base, about -75 in. across when ripe ; pieces of the 

 perianth of all the flowers lanceolate-acuminate, not spathulate. 



The typical form is commonly planted all over the Malayan Peninsula and Archipeh 



o 



where 



lly ki i 



Waring 



The only wild specimens I have seen in herbai 



from Timor, Sumatra, and Celebes. Beddome and Dalzell quote it from Western Peninsular 

 India, but I have never seen a wild specimen from that quarter. The variety comosa is 

 common and wild in the eastern (less so in the western) hills of the Indian Peninsula, at the 

 base of the Eastern Himalayas, in other hilly parts of Assam, Chittagong, and Burmah. 

 Except by the fruit, the variety is absolutely undistinguishable in field or herbarium from 



the typical form. 



The Linnantn name Benjamina is retained for this species, as it is undesirable to alter 

 names long current. But it is not at all clear that Linnaeus did not (as Roxburgh under- 



stood him to do) mean this name to be applied to the species named below retusa var. nitida. 

 In his Curomandel Plants Roxburgh published, in 1798, 



an excellent figure and description 



of F. comosa, and I rather think his is the name which ought to be kept up. 



Plate 52.— Fruiting-branch of F. Benjamina, Linn. Separate figures of apex and base 



of receptacle, basal bracts, and stipules : of natural size. 



B. 



of natural size. 



Plate 83 h . 



Fruiting-branch of var. comosa 



male flower ; 2, pedicillate gall flower ; 3, fertile female : all enlarged. 







50 



Ficus 



Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 288.— Urost strictum 



Jungh. 50 ; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 344 ; Zoll. Syst. Verz. 9 



> 



Miq 



PI 



A tall tree {fide Miquel), of which all parts are glabr 

 oblong to ovate-lanceolate, slightly inequilateral, the 



leaves 



petiolate 



base 



ded 



or 



narrowed, not nerved 



all 



than the secondary 



midrib arid anastomosing near the 

 about *5 in. 



apex acute, margin entire, thickened, 



primary lateral nerves not more prominent 



straight, nearly at right angles to the thick and prominent 



margin ; length of blade 3*5 to 5 



. long; stipules lanceolate, -35 to 1 

 pairs, globular, smooth, about *7 ir 



Ion 



axillary, in 



persistent, rather large, broadly ovate-cordate at the base 

 numerous, elongate, sessile, the 

 <•< >rdate, on a long thin filament 

 4-toothed, the ovary smooth, 



\ LiciiniiTintA 



in. ; petioles stout 



receptacles sessile 



yellow when ripe; basal bract* 



male flower 



scattered 



the anther 



perianth of 3 spathulate pieces ; stamen sing 

 gall flowers sessile or pedicillate, the perianth gamophyll 



not 



tyl 



rather short 



fertile females sessile 



Western Java 



pieces, style elongate, stigma flat, achene minutely tuberculat 



the perianth of 



A species closely allied to F. Benjamina, Linn, by its venation, and also to F. elastica. 131 



Plate 53 



Fruiting-branch of 



ptacle and of stipules : all of natural 



F. stricta, Miq. with separate fi 



* f 



of apex and base of 



'late 83 h 



1 



i 



male flower 



en laraed 



y 



) 



pedicillate gall flower 



? 



3 



? 



fertile female flo^v 



all 



