UEOSTIGMA. 



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5, rarely 7 (2 being minute) ; lateral primary nerves 3 to 6 pair*, rather im xular, prominent 

 only in the young state ; length of blade 4 to 6 in., of which the acuminate npex forma 

 only about one-sixth ; petioles 25 to 35 in. ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, from 5 to 1 in. long ; 

 receptacles sessile, in pairs in axils of leaves or of leaf scars, globular, smooth, when young 

 whitish with dark spots, when ripe nearly black; -5 in. across; basal bracts 3, ratuiid. 



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small ; male flowers few, and only near mouth of receptacle, the perianth of 3 spathulute 

 pieces; anther single, on a filament about as long as itself; gall and fertile femal. flowers 

 with perianth of 3 lanceolate pieces ; the gall ovary smooth and usually obovoid; the ft i til 

 achene minutely tuberculate, mucilaginous ; style in both elongate, stiirma clavate. 



At low elevations on the drier slopes of the mountain ranges in Northern, Western and 



Central India; in Burmah and the Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago 



Blume, in his Bijdragen, published in 1825, gave the name F. Rnmphii to the Arbor 

 conciliorum of Rumphius, and Roxburgh gave the name F. cordifolia (FL lad. iii. 54Si to the 

 same plant, both authors quoting Rumphius' description and figures. But the name F i wdlfol 

 was applied by Blume in the Bijdragen to a totally different tree, which is now known only by 

 some meagre specimens in Blume's herbarium at Leiden. Blume's name for tin's speeiee mu t 

 therefore take the precedence of Roxburgh's; for Ro: burgh's Flora Judica, although vritten 

 early in the century (Roxburgh died in 1815), was not published in its entirety until 18-': 

 The specimens of F. cordifolia, Bl. at Leiden are sufficient to show that it was not a 

 Urostigma, The species is now practically lost, but I shall give a figure of it drawn from 

 the material at Leiden. 



F. Rumphii is allied to F. religiosa, but has leaves usually decidedly narrowed at tli< i very 

 base, with a less suddenly acuminate and shorter-tailed apex, and the globular receptacles 

 are not depressed at the apex. 



Plate 67B. — Fruiting-branch of F. Rumphii, Bl. 1, lateral view of rec ptiicle; 2, base 

 of receptacle; 3, apex of receptacle; 4, vertical section through receptacle: of natural sU . 



Plate 84*. — 5, male flower; 6, sessile gali flower; 7, fertile female achene: enlarged. 



66. Ficus religiosa, Linn, Hort. Cliff. 471 ; Sp. Plant, ed. 2. 151 I : ///. Byd. 16 j 



Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 547; Wight Ic. 1007; Bedd. FL Sglv. L 314; Branik 

 For, Flora 415; Kurz For, Flora Brit, Burnt, ii. 448. — F, affinior, Griff, 

 Posth. Pap. pt. 4. 392. t. 553. — Urost. religiosum, Gasp. Ric. 8.'. tab. 7 

 fig. 1 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 333, t. 23 ; Miq. in Loud. Journ. 

 Bot. vi. 563; Dalz. and Gibs. Fl. Bomb. 241. — Urostig. affine, Miq. in Lond. 

 Journ. Bot. vi. 564. — Arealu, Rheede Hort. Malab. i. 47. t. 27. — Fie. 

 Malabar, &c, Pluk. Phyt. 144. t. 178. fig. 2; Wall. Cat. 4487A, B, C, D, 

 and E. 



A large, glabrous, usually epiphytal tree ; leaves coriaceous, upper surface shining, lower 

 minutely tuberculate when dry, long-petiolate, ovate-rotund, narrowed upwards and the apex 

 produced into a linear-lanceolate tail, edges entire, undulate ; base broad, rounded to truncate, 

 sometimes a little narrowed at the union with the petiole, occasionally emargin ate, or in young 

 leaves even cordate, from 5- to 7- nerved ; lateral primary nerves about 8 pairs, reticulation 

 fine, distinct ; length of blade from 45 to 7 inches, of which the apieal tail forms about a 

 third, breadth 3 to 4*5 in. ; petioles from 3 to 4 in. long, slender ; stipules minute ovate-acute ; 



receptacles in pairs, axillary, sessile, smooth, depressed spheroidal, when ripe dark purple, *5 in. 



across, with 3 broad, spreading, coriaceous basal bracts; male flowers very few, and only 



