SYCIDIUM. 



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often reflexed, scabrous-hispid, globular, slightly depressed at the apex, with rather a 

 prominent umbilicus; umbilical scales erect; basal bracts none; when ripe yellow or 

 purple with yellowish dots, -fi in. to 75 in. across. Male flowers numerous in the upper 

 part of the receptacles, the perianth of 4 or 5 linear-lanceolate scabrid pieces ; stamen 1; 

 ovary of gall flowers ovate-lanceolate, with thick terminal style and dilated stigma; the 

 perianth like that of the male flowers. Fertile female flowers with perianth of 6 or 7 

 linear-lanceolate smooth pieces; the achene elongated, obovoid, minutely tubercular; the 

 style lateral, filiform ; stigma obovate. 



From the plains to elevations of about 3,000 ft. on the hill ranges of Central and 

 Southern India, and in Ceylon. 



A very distinct species, and not varying much. A narrow-leaved form was the 

 basis of Wight's species hispidissima. 



Plate 100. — F. asperrima, Roxb. Fruiting-branch. 1, leaf of the narrow-leaved foni 

 (hispidissima y Wight) ; 2 & !!, base and apex of a receptacle — of natural size; 4, male ilower 

 5, gall flower ; 6, fertile female : all enlarged. 



92. Ficus swinhoei, nov. spec. 



A hispid shrub; the leaves petiolate, coriaceous, elliptic or sub-obovatc-elliptic; the apex 

 sub-acute ; the edges slightly sinuate especially towards the apex; the base rounded or sli htlv 

 contracted, 3-nerved; primary lateral nerves about 5 pairs ; both surfaces dull and covered with 

 minute, very short, stiff hairs; length of blade 2 to 2*5 in. ; petiole stout, scabrid, 2 in. long ; 

 stipules lanceolate, hispid, *2 in long. Receptacles pedunculate, solitary, axillary, < lobular, 

 contracted at the base; the umbilicus large and prominent; scabrid-hispid, red wh n rip , 

 •35 in. across; basal bracts none ; peduncle *1 in. long, scabrid- hispid, with 3 broadly ovat. 

 spreading bracts at its base. Male flower not seen. Fertile female with a 4-cleit scabrid 

 perianth ; achene obliquely ovoid ; style lateral. 



Takow, Formosa, — Mr. R Swinhoe. 



A small shrub, growing in crevices on the sides of rocks. This comes near F. gibbosa. BL 

 var. parasitica, but the leaves are not rhomboid, and they have more numerous lateral nerves. 



Plate 101 C — Branch of F. Swmhoei, King, with mature receptacles. 1, ap' t of a recep 



tacle; 2, base of the same; 3, stipules— all of natural size; 4, perianth of fertile female flower 



4-cleft ; 5, achene : enlarged. 



Leaves elongate, ovate, or obovate, conspicuously narrowed in the lower third. 



93. Ficus obscura, BL Bijd. 474 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 302 ; Ann. Mus. Ugd 



Bat. iii. 272, 292.—/'. comnata, Keinw. in BL Bijd. 470.—/'. scabcirima^ 



BL Bijd. 474; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 304.— F. asperiuscula, Kuuth 



et Bouche* Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 21 ; Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii 2- I ; Miq 



FL Ind. Bat. L pt. 2. 300; PI. Jungh. 58.— F. yrewimfolia, Hort Berol. (mm, 

 Bl).— F. Remblas (in part), brevipes, Miq., and hgpsophila, Miq. (in part) ; M iq. 

 PL Jungh. 58, 60; FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 304, 305, m.— Covellia ZolUngmam 



and das*ycaula\ Miq. Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 460; Fl. Ind. Bat. i.pt. 2. 322. 



