50 



UEOSTIGMA. 



Var. 1. affinis.-^. affinis, Wall. Cat. 4524; Herb. Ind. Or. Hook. fil. and Thorns. 



113 ; Herb. Griff. (Kew Distrib.) 4589, 4590. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed at the base, shining ; lateral primary 

 nerves often as many as 12 pairs ; receptacles pedunculate. 



Thia variety is found in the Eastern Himalaya, Khasi Hills, Chittagong, and Burmah. 

 Wallich issued specimens of it as F. affinis, but it was not described under that name 

 until the publication of Kurz's Flora of Burmah in 1877 (the Urost affine described by 

 Miquel in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot vi. 564 being quite different). Cuming's plant from 

 Philippines, described by Miquel asparvifolia (1. c. 570 j, appears to be exactly the same as Wall. 

 Cat. 4524. Miquel's F. subpedunculata, founded on specimens collected by Griffith issued 

 from Kew under the No. 4589, is unmistakeably the same as Wall. Cat. 4524. 



Var. 2. concinna.— F. concinna, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 286.— Urost continuum 



Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 570. 

 Leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate ; petioles much elongate (1 in. to 1*3 in.). 

 Philippines, — Cumming, 1940. 



Var. 3. Papuana. — F. nesophila, Mull. M.S. ; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 286 



Benth. Fl. Austral, vi. 164. — Urost. nesophilum, Miq. in Journ. Bot. Neerl 

 1861, p. 237. 



Leaves ovate -oblong, with cordate bases. 



f 



New Guinea, — Beccari, P. B. 1 57 ; N. Australia, Queensland. 



Mr. Bentham (1. c. ) suggests that both F. nesophila and F. Cunning hami ', Miq. may prove 



to be forms of F. infectoria, Roxb. As far as the material at Kew goes, I should refer 



the whole of the sheets named F. Cunninghami to infectoria, and most of them to its 



variety Lambertiana. Some of the sheets named nesophila are in my opinion infectoria 



var. Lambertiana, but the remainder appear to me to come nearer F. glabella, BL, differing 



from the typical form of that species in the shorter cordate leaves. 



Plate 60. — Fruiting-branch of F. glabella, typical form. 1, base of receptacle; 2, apex of 

 same ; 3, stipules : all of natural size. 



Plate 83°.— 4, male flower; 5, fertile female flower with perianth; 6, the same 

 without perianth (shortly pedicillate) ; 7, ovary of gall flower : all enlarged. 



59. Ficus retusa, Linn. Mantissa, 129; Willd. Spec. Plant, iv. 1147; Benth. Fl 



Hong-Kong, 327; FL Austral, vi. 166; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. ii. 223; Brandis For 

 Flora 417 ; Kurz For. Flora Brit. Burm. ii. 444.—^. dilalata, Miq. in Ann. 



Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 218, 288.— ^. nitida, Thunb. Fie. 14; Willd, Sp 



Plant, iv. 1145; Blume Bijd. 455; Wight Ic. 642.— I 7 , rubra, Eoth. Nov 

 Spec. PL 391 (excl. syn.).— i 7 . littoralis, Bl. Bijd. 455.— F. microcarpa, Linn. 

 fil. Supp. 442.— F. Benjamina, Willd. Spec. Plant, iv. 1143 (excl. syn 



Linn.); Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 550.— Urost. ovoideum (excl. syn.), pisiferum 

 retusum, nitidum, and microcarpum, Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 580 to 

 583.— Urost. retusum, nitidum, and microcarpum, Miq. in Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 

 . 2. 345, 346.— Urost retusum and nitidum, Miq. Dalz. Fl. Bomb. 241, 

 242 ; Wall. Cat. 4523, all the letters; 4530A and B ; 4567; Rheede Hort. 

 Malab. i. t. 26, iii. t. 55. 



A large umbrageous evergreen tree, with a few aerial roots, all its parts quite glabrous ; 

 leaves shortly petiolate, coriaceous, shining, entire, ovate-rotund to obovate-rotund, apex blunt 



