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Var. 2. var. bbpems (=F. repent, WilltL and Roxb.) Leaves broad. Ion 



petiolate: receptacles long-pedunculate, more or less pyri form. Under tl 

 variety falls Covellia Griffith^ Miq., of which I have seen the tyj > at Kew. 



Plaie94.— 1, F. heterophil lla, Linn. JiL, fruit in g-branch ; 2, var. scabrella; 3 & 4, var 

 repens—all of natural size ; 5, male flower with 3-cleft perianth ; 6, male flower with 4 -cleft 

 perianth; 7, gall flower with 3-cleft perianth ; 8, 4-cleft perianth of fertile female flower; 

 9, ripe achene : all enlarged. 





85. Ficus quercifolia, Uoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 534; Wight' $ Icon C46; £od& Dot. Cab. 



t. 15±0; Miq. in Lond. Joum. Bot. vii. 232; Fl. li«L hat. i. pt. 2. 207 



^4w«. J/ms. Luyd. Bat. iii. 291. — F. humilis, Roxb. FL Ind iii. 5i ) ; "Wight g 



Icon 635 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 299 ; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Luv.il 

 Bat. iii. 271, 291. — F. sinuom } Miq. Lond. Joum. Bot. vii. i'' ! ; Miq 

 Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 291. — F. inconstant, Miq. Lond. Joum. I >t 

 vii. 232, 330.—^. biglanduta, Bl. Bijd. 475.— F hiJatidulotu, Miq Fl. Ind 



Bat. i. pt. 2. 298; Suppl. 173, 426 —F. anastotnosa**, Wall. Cat. 45 i 



Kurz For. Fl. Burm. ii. 455.— F. repens, Herb. Madras, Wall. Cat. 4546. 

 F. montana ) Burm. Fl. Ind. 226 probably, but Bunnann's description is vi-rjj 

 meagre. — F. montana, Burm ? Bl. Bijd. 471. 



A small shrub, very often creeping and rooting in the ground ; the young pud a m 

 shortly hispid. Leaves shortly petiolate, thickly membranous, varying in shape h 



ovate 



sometimes more or less irregularly lobed ; apex more or less acuminate or north 



more or less acute or cuneate, rarely rounded, 3- to 5-nerved ; lateral primary nerves 1 



elliptic to obovate-elliptic ; coarsely crenate-serrate, especially in the npper halt 





pairs 



at rio-ht angles to the midrib, prominent on both surf aces ; un der surf ace scabrid, with a f. 



short stiff hairs especially on the nerves; upper surface sub-Scabnd, or smooth mi.l 



midrib and nerves shortly and deciduously hispid ; length of blade 2 to 5 in. ; petioles ■ I to 1 in., 



hirsute; stipules 2 from each leaf, lanceolate, -25 in. long Receptacles shortly periunriilui 



pairs, rarely from the branch's below the leaves; OTOid or 



ily axillary, sometimes 



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sub-globose ; scabrid-hispid, prominently umbonate when young ; when mature globular 



flattened at the apex, crimson ; from -25 to -4 in. across ; basal bracts no,,, ; pedundes * , U, 



Ion. with 1 to 2 scattered linear bracts above their bases. Male flowers *rth .1 stamen ; t he 



Gall flowers with 



anther°broadly ovate ; the perianth of about 2 pieces sometio.es absent 



perianth like the males ; the ovary ovoid-globose, smooth ; style short ate al Fertil feu ul. 



petianm u , pe rianth; the achene broadly ovoid, minutely tuberoulat , • : 



flowers wxth minute 3-leaved *^™W ^ flowCK is irre ,„ 1:lr ;llld i mpe rfect 



style lono- • stigma cylindnc. Ine peiiantn 01 dn / o 



Widdy diTtributed in Burmah and the Malayan Peninsula and Arch,, el ago up to 2,500 ft. 



gr o w 



mo* in crevices of rocks and on the ground # 



Sher a variable species, allied to Hr^ Linm fl,. from wind, it* be* 



Kather a var ao.e s^ -~~ ^ rcccptacles . I have seen type, of « I of 



guished by its smaller, P|^J^ Syi ™ ^ WMI L. Burm., I have see,, no authentic 

 the species winch I have reduced hen* O « ^ ^ ^ ^ . ^ ^ ^ 



specimen, and I presume ""nn's description it is impossible to determine exactly what 



