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Male flowers with perianth of 3 lanceolate pieces; the anther narrow, elonsmte, its filament 



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long as itself. Gall flowers with short perianth of 3 pices; the ovary hular, smooth; 

 style short, lateral. Fertile female flowers with gamophyllous perianth, 2- or 3-] .rtite- the 

 achene ovoid, emarginate on one side ; style lateral, nearly as long as the achene ; stigma 

 cylinclric. 



Tropical forests, at the bases of the Khasia Hills in the Chittagong and Hurmoee 

 ranges. Not uncommon. In the Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago very common and 

 rather variable, but by no means so variable as to warrant the swarm of specific nam 

 which forms of it have received from various authors. 



Typical rostrata, Lamk., has sessile receptacles; the receptacles of the form which 

 Roxburgh called radicans have peduncles from * 5 to 75 in. long. The differences anion _st 

 the Malayan forms which Blume and Miquel elevated to the rank of specie* are, on the 

 whole, inconsiderable; and Miquel himself, in his final revision of the irenus, reduced 



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four of his own species to F. rostrata, Lamk. In the form named vniglandulosa by AVallich 

 the ripe receptacles are nearly glabrous. I think it probable that F. pisifcra, Wall, fas 

 I have mentioned under that plant) is only a form of this. F. urophylla, Wall., is likewi.se 

 very closely allied to this. In external characters this and F. urophylla are almost identical, 

 the only differences which I can see being that the leaves of urophoylla arc more coriaceous, 



and the peduncles of the receptacles are shorter than those of radicans. But urophylla is 

 never scandent; it is always a shrub, and occasional plants of it form trees .'50 ft. high. 

 F. radicans, however, has strictly monandrous male flowers, with very slight 3 -cleft perianth, 

 which is sometimes altogether absent. The male florets of urophylla, on the other hand, 

 have a 4 cleft perianth, and each contains a perfect stamen and an abortive pistil; and 

 on account of this pistil it falls into the section Palceomorphe. 



Plate 110. — F. rostrata, Lamk. A, B, C, three forms of leaves. 1, npox of mature 

 receptacle ; 2, base of the same ; 3, stipules— of natural size ; 4, male flower ; 5, gall flower— from 



the same receptacle; 6, perianth of perfect female flower; 7, ripe achene of the same: 

 enlarged. 



101. FlCUS clavata, Wall Cat 4495 ; Mtq. in Loud Joum. Bot vii. 431 ; Ann. Mas. 



Lngd. Bat iii. 275.— F. trachycarpa, Miq. l.c.430; Bran.lis For. Flora 

 4*1.— £ caudata, Wall. Cat. 4494A; Miq. in Lond. Joum. Bot. vii. 431 

 Ann. Mus. Lued. Bat. iii. 275.-F. chincha, Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 534 ? 



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An erect shrub, the voun K branches scabrid. Leaves petiolate, membranous, slightly 



inequilateral, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate ; apex abruptly acuminate or caudate ; edges ot 

 the upper half irregularly sinuate-dentate, of the lower half entire ; base acute or acuminate, 

 sometimes obscurely 5-nerved ; lateral primary nerves 4 to 6 pairs, prominent on the lower 

 surface, as are also the veins and reticulations ; both surfaces glabrous, but hard and rather harsh 

 to the touch, lower surface minutely punctate; length 4 to 5 in. ; petioles -2 to -3 m. long; 



stipules lanceolate, -3 in. long, very caducous. Receptacles short-pedunculate, axd ary 

 solitary, obovate, or sub-globular, constricted at the base (strong y umbonate, <g"4f»> 

 obovate forms,; umbilical scales sometimes large, more or less scabrid <*-~>~* 

 occasionally smooth ; yellow when ripe, and in diameter from -35 in. » *"*£»*£ 

 •5 in. in the obovate forms ; basal bracts minute ; peduncles from -1 m. to 2- jj»*j 

 and gall flowers mixed over all parts of the interior of the same receptacle, the perianth 



