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Plate 76.— Fruiting-branch of F. infectoria, Koxb., var. Lamber liana. Two separate 

 fio-ures of leaves to show varieties in form: all of natural size. Separate views of apex and 

 base of receptacle : slightly enlarged. 



Plate 77. — Two fruiting-branches of F. infectoria, Roxb., var. Wightiana, to show two 

 different forms ; separate figures of receptacles and stipules : all of natural size. 



Plate 78. — Fruiting-branch of F. infectoria, Roxb., var. Forbcsii. 1, receptacle seen 

 from above ; 2, ditto seen from below ; 3, stipules : all of natural size. 



Plate 79. — Fruiting-branch of F. infectoria, Roxb., var. c autocar pa : natural size. 1 

 stipule ; 2, lateral view of receptacle ; 3, basal view of the same ; 4, one of the basal bracts : 



Nos. 1 to 4 are enlarged. 



In the Kew Herbarium there are two specimens in young leaf from the Philippines 

 (Cuming, 1978) which have long, flaccid, fugacious scales covering the expanding leaf -buds 

 very like those of F. tjakela, Burm. These two specimens form the types of Miquel's 

 F. ttipulosa, but I believe them to be nothing but young shoots of this variety. 



74. Ficus geniculata, Kurz For. Flora Brit. Burm. ii. 447. 



A large tree ; all parts glabrous except the pubescent stipules ; leaves sub-coriaceous, 

 broadly elliptic or ovate-rotund, shortly and abruptly acuminate, the edges sub-undulate; the 

 base rounded or narrowed, sometimes emarginate, 3-nerved ; lateral primary nerves nearly 

 at a right angle to the midrib, from 8 to 12 pairs ; secondary nerves and reticulations distinct 

 on both surfaces; length of blade 4 to 7 in., breadth 25 to 4 in.; petioles 25 to 4 in. 

 long, separating from the blade when dry ; stipules about '35 in. long, broadly ovate, pubescent ; 

 receptacles crowded, shortly pedunculate or sessile, in groups of 2 to 4 in the axils of scars of 

 fallen leaves, depressed-globular, -25 in. to -35 in. across ; when ripe reddish with dots ; basal 

 bracts 3, broadly ovate ; male flowers near the mouth of the receptacles, rather numerous, the 

 periantli gamophyllous, barely covering the single stamen ; anther broad, rotund-ovate, on a 

 short filament ; gall and fertile female flowers with similar perianth of 2 or 3 lanceolate pieces • 

 gall flower with short, and fertile female with a long style. ' 



Tropical zone in the Sikkim Himalaya, Assam, Chittagong, Burmab, and Malaya. 



I his .0 closely allied to infectoria, with which I at one time thought of uniting it ; but 

 lam now convinced that it is a separable species. Its leaves are always more rotund than 



£ZtT\ P / ^ T*' f ^ ^ fl ° WerS haVe a «Ml°us perianth. 



Series III.-Leaves coriaceous, stamens sometimes 2. 



75. f ICU s a.™, mm Ai , Acad . Beroly 1798f 10 taL . n - lm Mm 



Lu 9 d. Butnu 295 ; Kurz For. Flora BrU. Barm. ii. 454.-* seleroptera.. 



i. pt. 2. 314. — F. cineraseens. Thw 



Miq. PL Jungh. 63 ; Fl. Lid. Bat 



Enum. PL Ceyl. 266; Thwaites, C. P. 2562.-* artocarpifolia, Roxb 



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texture'^etiolate '' M J""* ^T*? CanCSCent ' ^^^ > *""» ° f a «#*> hard - c ° ri ~ 

 texture, petiolate, elhptic, or oval ; the apex rounded or with a short, b^oad. blunt acumen : 



