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SYClDlITif. 



description and figure (copied by Wight as Icon. 646) give a good idea of what his plant 

 is, and to it I have reduced as a variety the Roxburghian species humility which Roxburgh 

 obtained also from Sumatra. 



Forma typica. Leaves grossly crenate-sinuate, often deeply lobed. — F. querci folia 



Roxb. 



Var. humilis. Leaves serrate or sub-entire, never lobed. — F. kumilis, Roxb. 



Plate 95. — A, fruiting-branch of F. quereifolia^ Roxb. ; B, var. humids : of natural size. 

 1, male flower; 2, naked stamen; 3, gall flower (from B) — enlarged; 4, perfect female 

 flower (from A) with imperfect perianth : enlarged. 



Leaves more or less ovate or elliptic, not lobed, not muck contracted in the lower 

 third, mostly scabrzd. 



86. Ficus nigrescens, nov. spec 



A creeping shrub, often rooting at the nodes; the young branches softly pubescent, 

 ultimately becoming glabrous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, broadly ovate or ovate-rotund 

 with cordate 5-nerved base (two of the nerves minute 1 , the edges coarsely serrate-dentate* 

 the apex shortly acuminate; lower surface rather harshly pubescent, the upper minutely 

 adpressed-hispid ; lateral primary nerves about 3 pairs; length of blade 15 in. to 2 in.; 

 petioles pubescent, from *6 in. to '75 in. long ; stipules in pairs, lanceolate, scarious, glabrous^ 

 about half as long as the petioles. Receptacles in pairs (one often abortive) on short, bracteolate 

 tubercles from the axils of fallen leaves ; shortly pedunculate, depressed-globose, rather harshly 

 pubescent, nearly black when ripe, about -4 in. in diameter ; basal bracts 3, broadly ovate, 

 rather large; pedicels about -15 in. long. Male and gall flowers not seen. Fertile female 

 flowers shortly pedicellate, the perianth of three lanceolate pieces ; achene obovoid, minutely 

 tuberculate ; the style lateral, longer than the achene ; stigma cylindi 



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Munipur, at 5,000 ft. ; Kegurina, in the Naga Hills, Assam, at 5 800 ft 



C. B. Clarke 



Mr 



A small species, creeping on the ground and often rooting. The tiers when 



gs wnen ripe are, 



according to M r. Clarke ( who alone has collected this), nearly black, and from this circumstance 

 I have named the species. Although I have not seen the male flowers of this plant I put it 

 into this section with confidence, its affinities being clearly with Merophylla, quereifolia, and 



ampelas. y ? 



Plate 95a.-F. nigrescent, King-of natural size. 1, fertile female flower: enlarged. 



87. Ficus HETEEOPOD4, Miq. in Ann. Mm. Lugd. Bat. iii. 23 



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296 



A tree the young parts scabrid-hispid. Leaves opposite ; those of the same pair unequal 



- „nH „™ qua% tlQl t6; from broadly oyate tQ ell . pt . c . the acute J g ^J te 



m size and 



the edges rather coarsely and irregularly crenate- serrate ; the base deeply cordate, 8 %h% 

 unequal, 5-nerved ; primary lateral nerves about 6 pairs ■ both mr hU u ,7 

 length of blade 5 to 10 in. : petioles 75 to 4 in i„ V , scabrous -hispid ; 



, petioles 75 to 4 in. long, scabrid ; stipules lanceolate, hispid, 







