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UEOSTIGMA. 



of blade 3-5 to 4 in., of petioles '75 in. to 1 in. ; stipules ovate, about '25 in. long ; receptacles 

 axillary, in pairs, sessile, obovoid, rather depressed at the apex, smooth; when ripe about -25 

 in. across; basal bracts 3, ovate-acute; male flowers few, and only near the mouth of 

 the receptacle, sessile, the perianth of 3 broadly ovate pieces ; anther 1, on a short filament; 

 gall flowers sessile or pedicillate, the perianth of 3 lanceolate pieces, ovary ovate, narrowed 

 to each end, style terminal ; fertile female flowers with perianth like the galls, the achene 

 ovoid or obovoid, minutely tuberculate, the style short lateral, 



Forests of Canara,- W. A. Talbot, 655 & 1100. 



Thin species comes near F. retusa, Linn., but differs in form and venation of leaf. 



]Yat G3.— Fruitinjr-branch of F. Talboti, King. 1, apex of receptacle; 2, base of ditto 

 3, stipules: all of natural 



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Pl ie 84".— 4, male flower; 5 & 6, gall flowers; 7, fertile achene : all enlarged, 



61. Ficus CALLorHYLLA, Bl. bijd. 445 ; Miq. in Ann. Mns. Lugd. Bat. iii. 287 ; Fl. Ind, 



Hat. i. pi 2. 349. 



A tree? glabrous everywhere; leaves very coriaceous, petiolate, broadly elliptic or sub- 

 obovate elliptic, apex rounded or with a very short, abrupt, blunt apiculus, edo-es entire 

 thickened, slightly revolute; base slightly narrowed, 3-nerved; lateral primary nerves about 

 «S pah , not much more prominent than the secondary nerves, and, like them, divero-ino- 



from the thick midrib at a higher angle than in F. elastica \ length of blade 4*5 to 

 6 in. ; petioles 1*25 in. long, stout; (stipules— >k Miquel— rigid, broadly lanceolate, covered 

 externally with a whitish powder) ; receptacles sessile, in pairs, axillary ; when ripe globular, 

 smooth, about *5 in. across; basal bracts 3, broad, rotund, coriaceous. 



Java. 



Of this species only a few specimens exist in herbaria. It must be near elastica, but 

 I keep it distinct, as the nervation of the leaves differs from that in elastica, the primary 

 nen i being fewer and more oblique and the edge being thickened and recurved ; the stipules, 

 moreover, are much shorter than those of elastica, the receptacles more globular. 



In this species, as in elastica, the involucral hoods which cover the young receptacles 

 are unusually persistent. In the only specimens which I have seen the receptacles are too 

 young for the structure of the flowers to be made out. 



Plate 51 A.— Fruiting-branch of F. callophylla, Bl. 1, a stipule : of natural size 



62. Ficus maclellandi, nov. spec 



tree ? the young parts softly tomentose, ultimately all parts glabrous 



pt tl 



stipules and receptacles ; leaves coriaceous, oblong, or narrowly elliptic, the apex rath, 

 suddenly, bluntly and shortly cuspidate, edges entire, base rounded or slightly narrowed, 

 both surfaces m adul leaves minutely tuberculate ; primary lateral nerves about 12 pairs, noi 

 much more prominent than tie secondary nerves, reticulations rather small, distinct; length 

 of blade 3-0 to 4-5 in.; petioles; to ? in. ; stipules lanceolate, tomentose, abou o u, 

 bug ; receptacles in pairs, axillary, sessile, globose, covered with pale flocculent 

 tomentum, about -2 m. across; basal bracts broadlv aJL ao ; „ nocculent 



4. £ i n .-,' uroacuy ovate, sericeous, small : male flowers 



not seen; female flowers sessile, the perianth of 3 l,-nJo+ rt • 



*' a. i • • i i p^ianm oi 6 lanceolate pieces, ovarv ovoid-acuminate 



tne style terminal as long as ovary. y acuminate, 



3 in. 



