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UKOSTIGMA. 



of young branches large, linear-lanceolate, flaccid, caducous, 3 to 5 in. long ; receptacles in 

 clusters of 2 to 6 on very short, crowded tubercles (aborted branchlets), borne partly in the 

 axils of the leaves, but most frequently in the axils of the scars of fallen leaves, sessile, rarely 

 very shortly pedunculate, depressed-globular, whitish-yellow and dotted when ripe, *2 in. 

 across, with 3 broad, deeply-bifid bracts at the base ; male flowers few and only near the 

 mouth of the receptacle, sessile, the perianth of 3 ovate pieces, shorter than the single 

 stamen ; anther ovate, on a filament about as long as itself ; gall and fertile female flowers 



alike except as regards contents of ovary, the perianth of 3 or 4 pieces, which quickly 

 separate from the ovary ; fertile achene obovate, the style elongate, the stigma cylindrical. 



Southern and Western India and Ceylon, from the plains to 4,000 ft. 



This is a very distinct and beautiful species. It is allied to F. infectoria, Roxb., 

 witli which it has been sadly mixed up by authors. But it is at once distinguishable from 

 infectoria by its minute receptacles in clusters of 4 to 6, and in the herbarium by the dark 

 greenish-gray colour of its leaves, the upper surfaces of which are very smooth and glistening 

 The large, membranous, caducous, flaccid leaf-scales of this species are in shape very like 

 the stipules of F. elastica, but they are much more fugacious. 



small form of this has been collected by Mr. J. S. Gamble, Conservator of Forests 

 in the Cuddapah district, of which the leaves are only about 3*5 in. long. 



Wight's specimen No. 26 in herbarium at Utrecht has short pedunculate receptacles. 



Plate 70.— Fruiting-branch of F. tjakela, Burm. Separate small figures of base and apex of 

 receptacles and of stipules. N.B. — The receptacles have been drawn slightly too small ; the leaves 



and stipules are of natural size. 



Plate 84 x .— -1, male flower; 2, fertile female flower : both enlarged. 



70. Ficus INSIGNIS, 



Kurs For. Flora Brit. Burm. ii. 447 



A tree the young branches at first tomentose, ultimately pubescent or glabrous ; leaves 

 ong-peholate g abrous glossy above, dull beW, very coriaceous, elliptic or ovate-elliptic 

 shghtly mequxlateral w, h a very short, abrupt, blunt apiculus ; edges entire, slightly revobt 

 and undulate; base shgh% narrowed, obscurely 3- to 5-nerved ; lateral primary Serves 10 to 



12 pairs, reticulations obscure* leno-th n f Klo,^ a n x ~ - -i . , ^ -^ 



jeijted to the bl.de, 2 to 8-5 ill^ti^Ln , 7 ™^ M<k ^ toi »' • ^ M " 



ovate, minutely tuberculate, style elongate, stigma cvlindric triangular, 



Burmah, — Kurs 



This tree has been collected only by Kurz 



distinguished by its much more coLl^T* * °T? *"* t0 * deniculata, but is 

 receptacles. coriaceous leaves, and by its tomentose stipules and 



Plate 71.— Fruiting-branch of F. insiani* TC^™ q x * 



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