sycidium. 



70 





•5 in. long. Receptacles in fascicles from short rough tubercles on the stem and larger branch* 

 pedunculate, globose, pyriform, umbonate, slightly verrucosa, shortly hispid, pale yellow- 

 when ripe, about *6 in. across; umbilical scales prominent; basal bracts none or irregular 

 peduncles thin, hispid, with 1 or 2 bracteoles, nearly 1 in. long. Fertile female flowers with 

 a gamophyllous, deeply 5-cleft perianth ; carpel elongate-ovate ; style thin, lateral. Male ami 

 gall flowers not seen. 



Island of Halmaheira, in Western Celebes, — Teysmann. 



This species approaches hispida in the shape and hispidity of the haves, but is readily 

 distinguished by the inequality in size of the leaves of the same pair, and in the long- 



peduncled, sub-pyriform receptacles. The fertile female perianths of this arc however, 

 gamophyllous, 5-cleft, while the female flowers of hispida have no perianth separable from 



the carpel. 



Plate 96.— F. heteropoda, Miq. 1, leaf twig; 2, fascicle of nearly mature receptacle. 



apex of a receptacle; 4, stipules— all of natural size; 5, fertile female perianth with 

 five lanceolate segments united below ; 6, carpel : enlarged. 





88. FlCUS SEMI-CORDATA, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lmjd. Bat. iii. 226, 293.—/'. ttfenia-Jolk, 



Teysm. MSS. (non Wall.; 

 A tree, hispid in all its parts. Leaves pctiolate, subcoriacoous, very unequal-sided, 



broadly ovate, falcate; the apex shortly acuminate; edges minutely dentate, rarely eniire: 



base strongly semi-sagittate, with 4 to 5 semi-palmate radiating basal nerves; lateral 



primary nerves about 4 pairs, prominent, especially below ; intermediate nervat„>n trans, 



and like the reticulations, coarse and distinct; the whole of the lower surface corered with 



short rather soft pale hairs; midrib and nerves scabrid; upper surface scabi - I. m» 



numerous 



minute sharp points, with some scattered, short, bristly hairs ; midrib and 



pubescent-hispid, as are also the stout -4- to -5-in. long petioles; stipnhs lanceolate, .enmu, ate, 

 pubescent, longer than the petioles. Receptacles long-pedunculate, in fasc cs from chutered 

 abortive shortly bracteolate branchlets (tubercles) borne on the stem and larger branches ; .trongly 



umbonate when young; when old globular and not umbonate, but always With .broad 



nmbilicus the scales of which are numerous and large ; constricted at the hue into . slender 



shortly hispid ; about -5 in. across ; bracts at the base of the const™ ,1 ,,, of. 



stalk 



ntacle 3 ovate, acute, minute; peduncle proper scabrous, slender, about 6 in. Ion 

 xcooptacle o, ovate, ac , ,j reC entacle, with 3 lanceolate perianth-leai s; 



flowers rather numerous near the mouth ot the receptacm, w ......j,,,,., . 



stamen 1 ■ anther elongate, its loculi deeply grooved. Gall flowers with a 4-1, ,v. 1 p. nanth , 

 c^elowS; style llral ; the receptacles hispid inside. Fertile female flowers not known 



^T-Ci: of /. semi-cortata, Mio. 1, a fascicle of young receptacles from 



one ofThe l™ branches below the leaf region; 2, lateral view of a nurture receptacle; 

 3 lex of a mature receptacle; 4, basal bracts; 5, stipules-,// of natural sue; 6, male 



Plate 97 



^, apex w- - 



flower : 7, female flower : enlarged 



? • j 



89 



Ficus conjugata, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat iii. 222, 291 



A small tree (?); the young branches scabrid, shortly setose ; leaves opposite petiolate 

 thicMy ^2L UoB/coSeous), ovate-elliptic or elliptic, the apex acute ; edges entne 



