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edges entire, slightly recurved ; base broad, rounded, some times slightly narrowed to the petiole, 

 3- to 5-nerved ; lateral primary nerves 5 to 12 pairs, thin, but prominent below, as are the 

 intermediate nerves and reticulations ; under surface pale, minutely papillose, pubescent when 

 young, ultimately glabrous but sub-scahrid ; upper surface smooth, shining, and hard; length 

 of blade 5 to 8 inches (in barren shoots often 12 inches or more); petioles 1-2 in. to 175 in. 

 long; stipules ovate-lanceolate, -4 in. to -5 in. long, pubescent; receptacles pedunculate, 

 solitary, axillary, pubescent-scabrid, sub-globular, very slightly depressed at the apex, and 

 contracted at the base into a short stalk at the junction of which with the peduncle arc i broadh - 

 ovate pubescent bracts ; when ripe yellow and about 1 in. across ; peduncle proper about 8 

 in. long, pubescent-scabrid ; the flowers intermixed with numerous ovate -lanceolate bract col 

 which rise from the interior of the receptacle along with them ; male flowers rather numer- 

 ous, scattered, pedicillate, monandrous, or occasionally diandrous, the p« rianth of 3 specu- 

 late pieces; anther small, ovate, on a short thin filament; perianth ■ f gall flowers ami i< rtilo 

 females similar, gamophyllous below, deeply divided above into 3 or 4 broadly lanceolute 

 segments ; style elongate ; stigma deeply bifid ; ripe achene obovoid. 



Southern Peninsular India and Ceylon, Burmah, the Andaman Islands, Java, and 

 probably in other parts of the Malayan Archipelago. 



Some of the numerous bracteoles which lie between the flowers are often with difficulty 

 distinguished from the perianth proper. 



I follow Miquel in adopting Willdenow's name cailosa for the plant named sclerojtt 

 by Miquel himself and cinerascens by Thwaites. But I think it rather doubtful whether 

 Willdenow's description of his cailosa really refers to this plant. 



Plate 85. — F. cailosa, Willd. — Branch with mature receptacles: of natural size, 

 Plate 84 v2 . — 1 & 2, monandrous and diandrous male flowers; 3, H-ssile gall flower; 

 4, pedicillate fertile female ; 5, fertile achene : all enlarged. 



76. Ficus vasculosa, Wall. Cat 4482; Miq.in Lond. Jovrn. Dot. vii. 4.04; Fl. 



Jungh. 61 ; Fl Ind. Bat. i. pi. 2. 31o.—F. Championi, Benth. in Kew Journ. 

 Bot. vi. 76 ; Fl. Hong-Kong, 328. 





A tree ; all parts quite glabrous ; the leaves of a pale green when dry, coriaceous, 

 petiolate, elliptic or obovate-oblong, with an obtuse or bluntly and shortly acuminate ap< x 

 and entire edges ; gradually narrowed to the acute or cuneate, obscurely 3-nerved, base ; lateral 

 primary nerves 6 to 12 pairs, nearly transverse, thin but prominent below, reticulations 

 rather distinct; both surfaces perfectly glabrous and shining, and of a pale colour; length* 

 blade i to 3 in.; petioles -5 in. to -7 in. long; stipules -25 in. long, ovate-acute; receptacles 

 pedunculate, in pairs, axillary, globular, glabrous, minutely tuberculate — ~ 



minutely 3-bracteate at the base, pale yellow wh.n ripe and from -2 in. to -5 im across; ped.ee 

 slender, -4 in. to -6 in. long ; male flowers few and only near the mouth of the receptac 

 pedicillate, diandrous, the perianth of 4 ovate or obovate p.eces ; fcrh efemale and ga 

 Sowers alike except as regards contents of ovary, sessile or pedicdktej *e penantb 



gamophyll 



ted and 



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_,„_,, the mouth 4-toothed ; ovary obovoid ; style lateral elongate ; st.gma 2-armed 

 Tavoy (in Burmah), Malayan Peninsula, Bania, Java, Penang, Hong-Kong, up t. 



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500 ft 



Mr! Bentham separates the Hong-Kong plant under the name F. Chumjnoni, hut I cannot 



find that it differs from Walhch's type specimens 



