UBOSTIGMA. 



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and only near the mouth of the receptacles, sessile, the perianth of 2 broadly ovate pi< , * 

 longer than the stamen ; anther ovate, with a short filament : rail and f, rtile f 



flow 



m » — — -- ■■-■—■ -^ ■■w j £«" ntiu. ivjuiv; lcuuiie nuwn 



alike except m the contents of the ovary, the perianth of 1 or 2 hyaline pic * in « ne 



nc. 



absent); fertile achene elongate-ovoid, smooth, style elongate, stigma cylind 



Perak, — Kunstler {King's Collector), 3555. 



I have not seen the specimens from Java on which Blume found. I the spech but 

 Kunstler's plant agrees so well with Blume's description that I venture to publish a figure of 

 it as true pisocarpa, Bl. 



Plate 59.— Fruiting- branch of F. pisocarpa, Bl. Separate figures of ha* and apex 

 receptacles and of stipules : all of natural size. 



Plate 83 n . — 1, male flower ; 2, female flower : loth enlarged. 



58. Ficus 



glabella, Bl. Bijd. 452 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 28G.— I ost. gUl Uum 

 Miq. El. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 310.— Urost. canalicu latum, Miq, Loud 



Journ. Bot. vi. 579; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 340; Zoll. Cat 2079 [J M 



Moritzianum, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 342; Zoll. Cat. 851?]; \\ 



Cat. 4502E. — F. parvifolia, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 286. — Ur st 

 parvifolium, Miq. Lond. Journ, Bot. vi. 570; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. I {, 



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F. affinis, Wall. Cat. 4524 ; Kurz Flora Brit. Burin, ii. 41 1. — /'. sub pedun- 

 culated, Miq. Ann, Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 217, 286. — F. Jl jhtiana, Benth 



(not of Wall.) Fl. Hong-Kong 327. 



A tree; the young parts sometimes puhescent, ultimately all parts glabrous; 1« av 

 petiolate, thinly coriaceous, obovate-oblong or oblanceolate, (ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate in 

 vars. affinis and concinna ; ovate-oblong with cordate base in var. papuana); apex rather abruptly 

 and shortly cuspidate, margin entire ; base 3-nerved, acute, or cuneate, rarely rounded, jointed 

 to the petiole ; lateral primary nerves 7 to 10 pairs, not very prominent, reticulations di tinct; 

 length of blade 2 to 4 in. ; petioles *75 in. to 1 in.; stipules ovate-lanceolate, # 4 in. long; 

 receptacles in pairs, rather crowded, from the axils of the leaves, but mostly fj >m tin 

 axils of the scars of fallen leaves, sessile, or very shortly pedunculate, spheroidal; the apex 

 often slightly depressed; when ripe smooth, dark-bluidi purple, sometimes with yellow dots, 

 from *2 to *3 in. across; basal bracts minute, broadly triangular ; peduncles when pres ut 

 from -1 to "2 in. long; male flowers few, and only near mouth of receptacle, scs lie, the 

 perianth of 2 ovate hyaline pieces larger than the single sub-ses ile anther ; ill and female 



flowers alike, except in the contents of the ovary, sessile or shortly p licillate; the achene 

 spherical or ovoid, smooth, the style very long, stigma obovate; perianth I ires 4, h aline, 



free, sometimes absent. 



In the Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago, Hong-Kong, the An dam ana and Burma h, 



and in the tropical forests of the Eastern Himalaya and Khasi Hills. 



This is rather a variable species. Miquel's Urost. canaliculatum (founded on Zoll 's specimen 



2279) is undoubtedly referrible here. But Urost. Moritsnamm, Miq. (found* I on Zoll 

 851), although ultimately reduced to glabella by Miquel himself, appear to me to differ 

 in the nervation of the leaves, and I include it here with hesitation. Zollin e^s ma rial 

 of both is, however, too scanty to be made much of. Miquel (in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat 



iii. 286) reduces here F. trinervia, Herb. Keinw., of which I have seen no sj iroen 



He also reduces F. pisocarpa, Bl., which I think is distinct and which I ke p up. Three 

 varieties may be distinguished. 





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