SynoBCia. — Flowers unisexual or neuter ; male flowers with 1 stamen 



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male 



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gall flowers in one set of receptacles, ferflle female and neuter flowers in 

 another set (neuters absent in apiocarpa); climbers with large coloured 



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receptacles, the leaves tesselate beneath. 



Leaves scabrous • 77. F. aurantk §, 



Leaves not scabrous. 



Leaves less than 2 inches in length, often dimorphous 78. F. punctata. 



Leaves more than 2 inches in length, their apices blunt, their surfaces 



not conspicuously differing in colour • . * 79. F. caihcarpa. 



Leaves more than 2 inches long, with acuminate apice*, the lower 



surface conspicuously white, tesselate 80. F. Singalana. 



Neuter flowers absent &1. F. apiocarpa. 



77. Ficus aukantiaca, Griff, (non Wall.) Notulce, pt. 4. 304; Icon. i. 504. Jiff, i 



Griff. Her b. \Ktw Dhtrih.) 4601 .—F. trachjeoma, Miq. in Zoll. Syst. 



92; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 304; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 293; Term). 



and Binnend. in Nat. Tijdschr. Neerl. Ind.— F. Guillielmi, i. Do Vriese 



MSS. 



A scandent, scabrous shrub, with very large receptacles. Leaves petiolate, thickly coriaceous 

 ovate-elliptic, slightly inequilateral, apiculate or acute, with entire recurred edges and rounded 



3-nerved base ; lateral nerves 8 or 9 pairs, strong but not very prominent ; under surface 

 scabrous from numerous harsh, broad, elevated pustules (often of a pale colour), between winch 

 are scattered short stiff bristles ; upper surface hispid when young, but afterwards shming 



and smooth ; length of blade 2-5 to 4 in. ; petioles stout, scabrid, -5 to -6 m. long; rtipu e. 



ovate-lanceolate, subulate, glabrous, -6 in. long, 2 to each leaf. Receptacles large peduncle 

 solitary, scabrous ; when young very prominently umbonate ; ummheus w.th brge sea 

 when ripe nearly smooth, ovoid-cylindric, tapering to base and ape,; o la nc h ™*t 

 red colour; about 2-3 in. long and 15 in. broad; ebracteolate at the ^f^ 

 •5 in Ion* scabrid, with 3 broad rounded bracts at it* ongin from the ana. Male 



gaSoUrstot ' seen. Fertile female flowers «-^jft^£*S2 



the perianth of 5 linear distinct pieces; the ovary ovoid; style lateral, sho.t, flock, 



Ann. Bot. Gtabd. Calc. Vol. I. 



