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SYCIDIUM. 



3- or 4-cleft perianth, monandrous or diandrous. Gall flowers pedicelled, with 4-cleft perianth 

 ovary ovoid, smooth ; style lateral ; stigma cylindric. 



Malayan Archipelago. 



A variable and little understood species, very poorly represented in herbaria. One form 

 may be separated as a variety. 



Var. muriculata. Primary nerves nearly horizontal; midrib, petioles, and youno 



shoots muriculate. — F muriculata, Miq. 



Kurz collected in the Andamans a plant very like this, but with nearly smooth entire 

 leaves, and with longer fruit borne on stout tubercles on the stem. He named this macropoda 

 in his Forest Flora of Burmah. But in the absence of good specimens I hesitate to describe 

 it as a distinct species. 



Sig. Beccari has collected the typical form in Sumatra (P. S. 772), and the variety in 



the Moluccas. 



Plate 109. — Fruiting branch of F. copiosa, Miq. 1, piece of stem and branch with 

 fascicles of receptacles ; 2, part of branch with receptacles ; 3, lateral view of a receptacle ; 

 4, apex of receptacle; 5, vertical section of receptacle— all of natural size; 6, gall flower; 

 7, male monandrous flower ; 8, male diandrous flower ; 9, stamen : enlarged. 





Leaves more or less oblong, tapering to both base and apex 



100. Ficus rostrata, Lanxk. Encyc. ii. 498; Vahl. Enum. ii. 200; Miq. Fl. Ind. 



Bat. i. pt. 2. 307; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 274, 293. — F. rostrata, 

 Lam? Bl. Bijd. 465. — F. quercifolia, Bl. non Roxb. Bijd. 468. — F. 

 radicans, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 536 ; Wight's Icon 671 ; Miq. Lond. Journ. 

 Bot. vii. 428; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 306; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 

 27*, 292. — F. acuminata, Kunth et Bouche* Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 

 21.— F. acuminata, Herb. Ham. in Wall. Cat. 4 178 A to D. — F. heter opleura , 

 Bl. Bijd. 466 — F. parietalis. var. ovalis, Bl Bijd. 462. — F. saxatilis, 

 Bl. Bijd. 400?— i 7 . obtusidens, Miq. PL Jungh. 59; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 

 pt. 2. 305.— i 7 . unguUdens, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 310.— F. raridens, 

 Miq. Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 430; Fl. Ind. Bat. I.e. 309.— F. Lobbii, 



Miq. Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 233; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 305. 

 F. uni gland ulosa, Wall. Cat. 4479.; Miq, in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 431; 

 Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 277, 291 ; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 309. 



Scandent or creeping ; the young branches and petioles scurfy, sub-scabrid when dry, and 

 with the receptacles more or less harsh. Leaves alternate, membranous, sub-coriaceous, 

 petiolate, narrowly oblong, elliptic or lanceolate, occasionally obovate-elliptic ; apex with 

 a long or short, often abrupt, entire cuspis ; edges entire or subsinuate, or with a few coarse 

 irregular teeth in the upper part ; base always entire, gradually (rarely suddenly) narrowed, 

 acute, or acuminate, strongly 3-nerved; lateral primary nerves 3 to 6 pairs, and, like 

 the midrib and reticulations, strong and bold; upper surface glabrous and shining, the 

 lower slightly pale, dull and harsh; length 2*5 to 8 in.; petioles *25 to -4 in., scurfy; 



stipules subulate, minute, -15 in. long. Receptacles sub-sessile or pedunculate, in the axils 

 of leaves or from the axils of the scars of fallen leaves, in pairs or fascicles of 4 to 6, scabrid- 

 hispid, without basal bracts, ovoid and boldly umbonate when young; when ripe globose, 

 reddish-yellow, from *2 to 3 in. across ; peduncles hispid-hirsute, from '05 to 4 in. long. 







