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SYCIDIU3I. 



revolute; the base broad, cordate, with 2 pairs of minute basal and 1 prominent pair of 

 supra-basal nerves; lateral primary nerves about 6 pairs, rather prominent (as are the 

 reticulations) on the lower surface and pubescent ; the rest of the lower surface covered with 

 dense soft grey tomentum ; upper surface scabrous, papillose, sparsely hispid ; length of blade 

 5 to 6 in. ; petioles about 1 *75 in. long, hispid ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, scarious, nearlv 

 glabrous, '25 in. long. Receptacles pedunculate, solitary, axillary, globose- umbo n ate ; when 

 young scabrous-hispid, much narrowed towards the base, with 3 ovate, nearly glabrous, basal 

 bracts (mature receptacles unknown); peduncle proper hispid, about *2 in. long. Male 



flowers with a 5 -cleft perianth and 1 stamen ; galls with a similar perianth, ovoid achene 

 and lateral style. Fertile female flower not seen. 



Java, — Tegsmann, De Vriese. 



Plate 98. — Fruiting-branch of F. conjugata, Miq. 1, lateral view of receptacle; 2, apex 

 of receptacle — of natural she; 3, male flower; 4, gall flower: enlarged. 



90. Ficus conspicabilis, nov. spec. 



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A tree(?); the young branches and leaf -buds covered with short, deciduous, yellow hairs. 

 Leaves broadly ovate or elliptic ; the apex acute or shortly acuminate ; the edges entire ; the 

 base broad, slightly unequal, sub-cordate, 7-nerved; primary lateral nerves about 6 pairs; 

 secondary nerves subtransverse, little curved; lower surface pubescent, especially on the 

 midrib and nerves ; reticulations minute, distinct ; upper surface minutely lepidote ; length of 

 blade about 8 in.; petiole -8 in.; stipules densely covered with long yellow silky hairs. 

 Receptacles large, shortly pedunculate, axillary, solitary, depressed-turbinate ; both base and 

 apex very concave; the surface wrinkled, rough, minutely tuberculate, deciduously hispid- 

 tonientose; length from base to apex 11 in., breadth 1*6 in, ; umbilicus much depressed, large, 

 with numerous scales ; basal bracts 3, broadly triangular ; pedicel '2 in. long, hispid. Female 

 flowers sub-sessile or pedicellate; the perianth of three distinct dark-coloured pieces; ovary 

 ovoid, smooth ; style terminal, longer than the ovary in the sessile, shorter than the ovary 

 in the pedicellate flowers. 



New Guinea,— Sig. Beccari (Herb. Becc. P. P. 651). . 



Plate 99.— A branch of F. conspicabilis, King, with a mature receptacle. 1, a stipule 

 of natural size; 2, part of surface of receptacle— slightly enlarged; 3, pedicellate; 4, sub-sessile 

 female flower : both enlarged. 





91. Ficus aspkemma, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 554; Wight, Icon 633; 31iq. in Lmd. 



Journ. Bot. vii. 230; Bah. $ Gibs. Fl. Bomb. 243; Bedd. Fi. Sulvat. 



n. 224. -.P. hupidissima, Wight MSS. Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 

 229; Thwaites C. P. 2229.- F. politoria, Moon's Cat, 74 (not of Lamk.). 



A shrub or tree, all tlie young parts very scabrous. Leaves collected about the 



extremities of the branches, alternate, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate to ovate or obovate 

 or elliptic; the apex blunt or acuminate; the edges sub-entire, serrate-dentate, or crenate 



m the upper three-fourths, and entire towards the rounded or blunt 3-nerved base; 

 lateral primary nerves 3 to 5 pairs, very prominent and hispid on the lower surface, 

 as are the reticulations ; the rest of the lower surface scabrid-hispid ; upper surface 



pretty uniformly and strongly scabrous, and shortly hispid; length of blade from 15 in. 



to o m.; petioles -4 m. to 1 in. long, stout; stipules minute. Receptacles pedunculat, 



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