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Plate 84'.— 1, male flower ; 2, gall flower; 3, fertile female achone, the perianth having 



been removed : all enlarged. 



71. Ficus superba, Miq. Ann. Mm. Lugd. Bat iii. 287.-00*/. superbum, Miq. PI 



' Jungh. 46; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 334.— Urost accident, Miq, Fl Ind. Bat. 

 i. pt. 2. 347 {fide Miquel). 



A tree, all parts glabrous except the stipules, receptacles, and their pedunelea; loaves 

 membranous, long-petiolate, crowded about the apices of the branches, broadly elliptic to 

 obovate-elliptic, apex with an abrupt, short, blunt point; edges entire, slightly thickened 

 and minutely undulate ; base rounded or slighly narrowed, with J prominent and 2 minute 



basal nerves; primary lateral nerves 6 to 8 pairs, straight, prominent; length of Wade 

 > to 6 in , of petioles about 3 in.; stipules short, ovat- , covered with short yellowish 

 tomentum, '5 in. long ; receptacles from the axils of the scars of fullen leaves, in pain, broadly 

 ovoid, sub turbinate, minutely scurfy and pubcrulous when young, j labrous when adult 

 about *5 in. across, on shortly pubescent "25 in. long peduncles which 1>« «r duoous 



bracts near their base; male flowers very few and only near mouth of rereptaele, on 



thin pedicels, the perianth of 3 ovate-rotund pieces, shorter than the stamen : anther 

 broad, its margins sinuate, filament very thick, longer than the anther ; gall and fertile 

 female flowers with perianth of 3 short obovate pieces, the st\lo lateral, elongato, stigma 

 sub-capitate; fertile achene broadly obovate; gall ovary elongates ate. 



Mountains of Western Java. 



I have seen specimens of this only in the herbaria of Leiden, Kew, and Oal< -utta. 



This comes near to F. infectoria, Roxb., var. geniculate, but is distinguished from that 

 by its tomentose stipules and large receptacles. 



Plate 72. — Frui ting-branch of F. superba, Miq. 1, receptacle ; 2, ditto, hIiom i n</ apex ; 

 3, ditto, lateral view; 4, stipules: all of natural size. 



Plate 84 z . — 5, male flower ; 6 gall flower ; 7 fertile female flower: all enlarged. 



72. Ficustsiela, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 549; Rhcede Ilort. Malab. iiL£63; Ham. tn 



Linn. Trans, xv. 149 (cum syn.)\ Wight Ic. t. 668; Miq. in Ann. Mus. 

 Lugd. Bat. iii. 286 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. ii. 314.-/1 Indka, Linn., var. B., Sp. 

 Plant, ed. 2. 1514.—^. Indica, AVilld. Sp. PI. iv. 1146— Urost. pseudo-tji 'a, 

 Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 566 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. >86 ; Dalz 

 and Gibs. Fl. Bomb. 241.— il Benjamina, Wall. Cat. 4.5031* and C— Urost 

 pseudo-Benjamina, Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 566; Ann. Mus. Lugd. 



Bat. iii. 286 : Thwaites C. P. 2218, 2537. 



large spreading tree without aerial roots, all parts glabrous; leaves coriaceous, 



broadly ovate or ovate-lanceolate, apex acute, or broadly bluntly and shortly cuspidate 

 edges entire, with a thick marginal nerve ; base narrowed or rounded, ^-nerved ; main 

 primary nerves indistinct (until the leaf is dry), from 8 to 10 pairs ; length of blade 2 to 4 in. ; 

 petioles 13 to 2 in. long; stipules ovate-acuminate, 4 in. to 1 in. long; receptacles crowded at 

 the ends of the branches, in the axils of leaves or of leaf -scars, sessile, globular ; when ripe 

 purple, smooth, about -5 in. across, basal bracts 3, minute, broadly o^ ite, scarious; male 

 flowers few, sessile, the perianth of 3 ovate-acuminate pieces, longer than the single 

 stamen : anther broadly ovate, on a thick filament longer than itself j gall flowers sessile or 



