UJJOSTI<-MA. 





C is F. Ar not liana. 



D is F. infectoria, Roxb., var. Lambcrtiana. 



Plate 68.— Fruiting-twig of F. Amottiana, Miq. Separate figure of baso and apex >f 

 receptacle. B. — Var. Conrtallensis : all of Statural size. 



Plate 84\— 1, male flower; 2, pcdicillate female flower; 3, ovary of gall removed frum 

 its perianth : all enlarged. 





68. Ficus mooniana, King.— Urost. Wight ianum. y Miq., var. B. majus, Thwaite* 



Enum. PI. Ceyl. 205. 



A large tree; leaves sub-coriaceous, elliptic or ovate-oblong, apex shortly and abruptly 

 cuspidate, margin entire, minutely undulate; base rounded or slightly narrowed, S-tierved, 

 not cordate; glabrous, with very prominent minute reticulations; lateral primary wins 

 10 to 15 pairs; length of blade 4*5 to 6*5 in. ; petioles about 1-25 in. ; stipules about '3 in 

 puberulous ; receptacles crowded below the extremities of the branches, solitary or in pair* 

 axillary, but chiefly in the axils of fallen leaves, globular, about »3 in. (sometimes -5 in 

 across, punctate, on peduncles -5 in. long; male flowers few and only mar the mouth of the 

 receptacles, sessile, the perianth of 3 lanceolate pieces which do not quite rover the simrlo 

 stamen; anther ovate-apicul ate, on a filament as long as itself; gall and fertile female 

 flowers sessile or pedicillate, the perianth gamopbyllous, 4-toothed, shorter than the o- m : 

 gall ovary ovoid ; fertile achene broadly triangular ovoid. 



Ceylon. 



This was considered by the late Dr. Thwaites to be a variety of F. Wight iana, Wall 

 but it is so different from that or any other form of mfectoria as to appear to degerve speeifio 

 rank. The nerves of the leaves are straiirhter, more numerous, and form a wider amrlr with 



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the midrib, and the fruit is on much longer peduncles than is the case in F. It uhtiana. 



Plate 69. — Fruiting-branch of F. Mooniana, King. 1, apex ; 2, base of a receptacle 



yf natural 



Plate 84 w . — 4, male flower ; 5, sessile fertile female flower ; 6, achene of the same ; 



7, pedicillate gall flower : all enlarged, 



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69. Ficus tjakela, Burm. Fl Ind. 227 .—Tsjakcla, Rheedc Hort. Malab. iii. 87. t. 64 



F. Tjakela Burm., Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 287. — F. venosa, Ait 

 Hort. Kew ed. 1. iii- 451 (not of Willd. Hort Berol. 36.t.36); Poir. Enoyc 

 Method. Supp.ii.657; Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 151.— F. injector vV/, 

 Willd. (non Roxb.i Spec. PL iv. 1137 ; Ait. Hort. Kew ed. 2. v. 485.— V \t 



Tjakela, Miq. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 567. — Urost. Ceyhnme, Miq. id. 570. 

 F. caulobotrya, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 287 (excl *;/n. caulocm-pa). 

 Urost caulobotrya, Miq. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 568; Wall. Cat. 4519A and 

 B : Thwaites, C. P. 2931, 3083. 



A very tall tree without aerial roots; all parts glabrous; leaves coriaceous, very 

 glossy above, Ion- petiolate, oval to ovate, shortly and abruptly acuminate, edges entir 

 slightly undulate ;° base broad, rounded, or sub-truncate, rarely narrowed, 3- to 5-neryed 

 lateral primary nerves 7 to 10 pairs, slightly prominent on both surfaces ; length of blade ft in 

 to 7-5 in • petioles I 75 to 25 in., slender ; stipules small, ovate-lanceolate, -5 m. long; leaf-scale* 



