90 



SYCIDIUM. 



Till 



s 



is in most respects a miniatur 



of F. subulata 



BL, and I 



about the propriety of separatin 

 BL, occurs both as an epiphytic 

 found north of Chittagong. 



have great doubt 

 ipecifically from that plant. Typical subulata, 

 climber and as a shrub growing in soil; it is not 



it 



This species, on the other hand, is not found so far south 



as 



Ohittagong, and 



is 



lly a small tree growing in soil 



but it is 



ally epiphytal 



I think on the whole 



may be merely a 



them form of F, subulata 



i 



Bl 



The 



type specimens of F. salicifolia, Miq., collected by Jenk 



the Eastern Himalaya are at 



Kew, and they differ in no respect from specimens in Herb. Ind. Or. Hook. fil. and 



j 



Thorns, issued as F. caudata, Wall., which form the basis of Miquel 



F. Sikh 



The latter 



name, however 



atly described 



must be retained for this plant, that of F. 



salici folia being pre-occupied by a species of Vahl 



Tl 



plant also comes near to 



F. cuspidata, Reinw 



Plate 113 



F. Sikldmensis, Miq 



Two fruiting-twigs 



1, apex of 



ptacle; 2, base 



of the same; 3, bracts at base of peduncle; 4, stipules— all of natural size; 6, male flower 

 with 3 -leaved perianth ai 



d 1 



flower; 8, perianth of fertile 



stamen ; 7, gall flower from the same receptacle as the male 



female flower; 9, fertile achene 



11 enlarged, 



104 



FlCUS AMPELAS. B 



J 



Fl 



Ind, 



226 (Excl 



Sy 



JR h eede ) 



F. 



ipela 



Lamk., Bl. Bijd. 473; Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 428; Zoll. Syst 



Verz. 93 



Fl 



Ind 



Bat 



l. 



2 



303 



Ann 



Mus 



Lugd. Bat 



in. 



272, 292.— F. politoria, Lamk.? Bl. Bijd. 472 



F. 



bicaulis* Decais. N 



7 



A 



Mus. iii. 496 



F. bandana, Miq 



F. javensis 



j 



Miq 



Lond. Jo 



Bot 



Fl 



vn. 



Ind. Bat 



l. 



2 



301 



23 



partly {fide Miquel) 



F 



grewicefolia, Bl. Bijd. 475 (in part) ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 306, and 

 in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 273, 292 \hi part). 



A small tree, often epiphytal and scandent, all parts rough and harsh. Leaves 



of 



a hard brittle texture, shortly petiolate, variable in shape, unequal sided, narrowly ovate- 

 elliptic or lanceolate to oblanceolate ; apex acute or rather bluntly acuminate ; edges 



sub-entire, serrate or crenate in the 



upper 



three-fourths, entire at the narrowed, unequal, 



3-nerved, acute or obtuse base ; from 2*5 to 3 in. long ; lateral nerves 4 to 6 pairs, rather 



> 



> 



9 



prominent below and like the midrib very 

 of the lower surface pale 



shortly hispid on both surfaces ; the rest 



and dull, tuberculate, scabrous 



but not hispid when old; upper 

 surface shortly hispid when young, ultimately glabrous, shining, hard and harsh, sub- 

 scabrid ; petioles *2 in. long ; stipules subulate-lanceolate, *25 in. long. Receptacles shortly 



pedunculate, axillary, in pairs, sometimes solitary or in fascicles, globose, mammillate 

 when young, with wide, occasionally apert umbilicus, *15 to *2 in. across, densely covered 

 with small harsh papillae and with very short hispid hairs, with occasionally 1 or 2 

 verruciform bracts on the sides, or near the base, or along the peduncles ; peduncles hispid, 

 from • 1 to # 2 in. long. Fertile female flowers sessile ; perianth of 4 pieces ; achene on a 



flattened 



stalk; style lateral, much 



elongate; stigma hooked. 



Male and gall flowers not 



seen. 



Widely distributed in the Malayan Archipelago, but apparently absent from the 



Peninsula. 







Rather variable as to shape of leaf and as to the cutting of the edges, but 



singularly unvarying as 



to texture and surfaces of 



the leaves, which 



are 



of 



a 



dark 



