I'KOSTIGMA. 



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Penang,— TFatf/V-//; Sumatra,- Ibrhi, 3077; Malacca,— King. 



A very distinct species, witli stipules like those <>f i lash', but smaller. 



Plate 56.— Fruiting-branch of F. dubia, Wall., with so] irate figure* of ro<< 



basal bracts, peduncle, and stipule : all of i ttural size. 



Plate 83 k .— 1, male flower; 2, gall flower; 3, fertile female: all >ihirged. 



54. Ficus kurzii, Kina.—F. nuda, Miq., var. macrocarpa, Kurz For. Flora Brit Burm. 



ii. 445. — ? F. eujthylhij Kurz 1. c. 



A tree; all parts glabrous ; loaves petiolate, thinly coriaceous, ovate-elliptic or elliptic, imp r 

 surface minutely tuberculate, apex shortly acuminate, edges entire, base narrowed, ol cuivlvr 

 3-nerved; primary lateral nerves 10 to 14 pairs, obsolete on the upper. «li tinct on the low r 

 surface, diverging from the midrib at a high angle; secondary n r\ . > aln *t as promim nt as 



the primary and more numerous; length of blade 4 in., of petioles about *5 in. ; stipul < 

 lanceolate, glabrous, *3 in. long ; rece})tacles ; miliary, pedunculate (in pairs ), globular 

 when ripe about *6 in. across, dark purple in colour, and apparently tuberelod ; apical ,m»1 



prominent; bracts at base of receptacle none, but at ba-e of the peduncle are 3 minute, 



glabrous, caducous bracts ; male flowers few, and onl near the mouth of tlu3 re< ptael 



on thick pedicels, the perianth of 2 broad, ovate, hyaline pieces; the anther tingle, ovate. 



rotund, sessile; gall flowers pedicillate, the perianth gamophyllous, 4-tootln 1. ovary ovate 

 with broad ends, smooth ; style elongate, stigma flat ; fertile female flow ra *>ile, the aclano 

 ovate-reniform, minutely tuberculate. 



Burniah, — Kurz ; Java, — Zollinger, Herb. 2228. 



Only a few specimens of this exist in herbaria. The fruit in Zollinger- specimens is 



tubercled, but this may have been occasioned in drying. Miquel in Zoli. S/fit. \ rz. 91 



(erroneously as I believe) refers Zoll. 2228 to F. nuda } Mi«j., a species founded by him on 

 two specimens from the Philippines (Cuming's No. 1932), and which I refer to F. Ih^njuminm, 

 Linn. The type specimen of F. eujthf/lla, Ivurz, has more coriaceous leaves with mor 



prominent nervation than the specimens named F. awl a, var. nvtcrophylla, ami the i oeptacl i 

 are said to be sessile. The material is poor, and until better is forthcoming I refei 



eupln/lla, though doubtfully, to this species. 



Plate 57. — Two fruiting-twigs of F. Kurzii — the smaller with immature the larger with 

 mature receptacles ; separate figures of receptacles and stipul s : all of natural size. 



Plate 83 1 .— 1, male flower, one of the perianth leave b< ing pushed aside ; 2, gall flower; 

 3, ovary of gall flower; 4, achene of fertile female flower: all enlarged. 



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Ficus rhododendrepolu, Miq. Aim. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 286.— Urmt rhododrifol 



Miq. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 579, nee atiorum; Kmz For, Mora Brit Bun 



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tree; all parts except the stipules quite glabrous; 1. ives tliinly coriaceous, liinii. -, 



smooth, elongate-elliptic or oblong, rarely ovate-elliptic, apex acuminate, I Igea entire, baae 



narrowed or subcuneate, rarely rounded; main nervee sli l.tly „,,e prmnment than the 

 secondary from 12 to 14 pairs, anastomosing near the margin ; length oi blade 4 to 



5 in of 'petioles -5 to -75 in.; stipules lanceolate, -5 in. long, deriduoe ly pnbeaeent; 



receptacles axillary, in pairs, sessile, smooth, globular, purplish-red when ripe, about & in 



