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colour when dry and shining and hard to the touch above, even after all the hairs 

 have disappeared. The lower surface is pale, dull, minutely papillose and scabrous. 

 Perfect female flowers occur in every receptacle, but I have never been able to find 

 male or gall flowers in any receptacles of any of the forms that fall under this. On 

 the other hand I have never been able to find perfect female flowers in any receptacle 

 of F. asperior, Miq. In that species only male flowers and gall flowers have ever been 

 seen by me. The leaves of the plants known as ampdas, BL, and asperior agree as to 

 texture, and they differ but little in shape. The leaves of ampelas are, however, entire, 

 and those of asperior are coarsely serrate. But this is a very slight difference, and 1 

 believe it not unlikely that asperior may be really the male, and ampelas the female, of one 

 and the same species. Observations in the field are required to settle this, and in the 

 meantime it may be convenient to keep up the species. 



Plate 114. — Fruiting -branch of F. ampelas, Burm. 1, apex of receptacle ; 2, base of 

 ditto ; 3, stipules 1 — of natural size ; 4, perfect female flower : enlarged. 



105. Ficus umbonata, Reinw. in BL Bijd. 454 (not of Wall), Miq. in Ann. Mus. 



Lugd. Bat iii. 297. — Covellia umbonata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. '• IS. 



A shrub, the young branches densely adpressed-pilose, rather scabrid. Leaves alternat 



pposite, petiolate 



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wly elliptic, oblong or oblanceolate, inequilateral ; the 



apex shortly acuminate; edges sub-crenate, undulate towards the apex, entire towards the 

 slightly narrowed, unequal, 3- to 4-nerved base; primary lateral nerves about 7 pairs; and r 

 surface with the reticulations distinct, minutely tuberculate, adpressed-pilose, especially on the 

 midrib and nerves, sub-scabrid ; upper surface sparsely adpressed-pilose; length of blade 

 about 3-5 in. ; petiole adpressed-pilose, -4 in. ; stipules lanceolate, nearly glabrous, -4 in. long. 

 Receptacles shortly pedunculate, axillary, depressed-globose, adpressed-pilose, scabrid, -6 in. 

 across; basal bracts none; peduncle -1 in. long. Male flowers pedicellate ; t h e perianth of 



3 broadly ovate distinct pieces; stamen 1, nearly sessile. Gall flower with a gamophyllous 

 perianth, 3-cleft at the mouth ; ovary smooth, ovoid ; style short, thick, lateral ; stigma dilated. 

 Fertile female flowers unknown. 



Moluccas, — DeVriese, Beccari. 



I have seen this only in the Royal Herbarium at Leiden and m Sig. Beccari's superb 



Malayan Herbarium. 



Plate 115A.— F. umbonata, Reinw., branch with mature receptacles. I, apex of ;« 

 receptacle ; 2, base of the same ; 3, stipules— all of natural size ; 4, male flower in bud ; 

 5, the same expanded ; 6, gall flower : enlarged. 



106. Ficus asperior, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat iii. 291.— F. exasperata, Roxb. 



(non Vahl.), Fl Ind. iii. 555 ; Wight's Icon 664. 



A tree (fide Boxburgh), the young shoots scabrous. Leaves petiolate, membranous, oblong 

 or elliptic ; the apex acuminate ; the edges coarsely sinuate-serrate ; the base slightly narrowed, 

 3-nerved, biglandular ; primary lateral nerves about 6 pairs, thin, but rather prominent beneath 



as are also tie rather straight connecting nerves ; under surface scabrid and with a few short 



stiff hairs ; upper surface scabrid rugose ; length of blade 4 to 6 in. ; petiole -35 ,n scabnd 

 stipules laneelte, S in. long, fugaceous. Eeceptacles pedunculate, m pairs, axillary, sub- 



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