SYC1DIUM. 



93 



a bluntish acumen ; edges remotely serrate- dentate, occasionally with a triangular lobe near 



the base at one or both sides ; base rounded, 3-nerved ; lateral primary nerves very numerous, 

 transverse, prominent; both surfaces, but especially the lower, scabrid ; length 2*5 to 4 in. 

 petioles *15 in. long, scabrous. Receptacles shortly pedunculate, axillary, or in pairs, globose, 

 about 25 in. across, scabrous; the umbilicus rather prominent; basal bracts 3, minute; 



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pedicels about the length of the petioles. 



Philippines, — Cuming , 1925 . 

 The type of this is at Kew. I have seen no other specimen. 



Plate 118. — Fruiting-branch of F. Cumingii, Miq.— of natural size. 



1 



2, receptacles 



showing the umbilicus and apical bracts ; 3, basal bract of receptacle. Nos. 1 to 3 are 



& 



much enlarged. 



Leaves very large (15 to 20 inches hng), with more or less rufescent puLcsc 



109. 



Ficus decipiens, Beinw. in Bl. Bijd. 479 ; Miq. Ft. lnd. Bat. i. pt. 2. 

 Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 291. 





97; 



A shrub (fide Blume) ; the leaves 15 to 20 in. long, shortly petiolate, membranous, 

 panduriform, coarsely and unequally inciso-dentate, the teeth ciliate; apex shortly acuminate 

 base truncate, sub-cordate, 7-nerved ; upper surface scabrid, with many white, adpressed, stiff 

 hairs; under surf ace, and especially the main nerves and midrib, rufescent, setose; lateral nervee 

 about 7 pairs; petiole about -5 in. stout, setose like the midrib; stipules ovate-lanct olatc 



setose, especially on the midrib and at the ed 



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Receptacles 



ary 



j 



sessile, ovoid with 



> 



mammiilate apex, about 1 in. long 



basal bracts 5 to 6, ovate-lanceolat 



Celebes 



> 



Beinwardts Herb. No. 1547 



A most remarkable species, of which very few specimens exist 



The drawing 1 



given was copied by the kind permission of Drs. Suring 

 the Herbarium at Leiden. 



d Boerlage from a figure in 



Plate 121 



1, leaf of F. decipiens, Reinw. ; 2, apical bud showing stipules and a youn 



leaf; 3, stipules— all of half natural size ; 4, view of 



ptacle showing the mammiilate apex 



5 



ditto showing the 6-bracted base ; 6, transverse section of receptacle— slightly enlarged 



7, fertile female flowers 



) 



stages: considerably enlarged, 



110. 



Ficus pun gens 



> 



Beinw. in BL Bijd. 478; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat i. pt. 2. 296 



Miq. 



in 



Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat iii. 291. 



tree, everywhere ferruginous-tomentose or hispid 



Leaves petiolate 



membranous 



A tree, everywhere ierrugmous-tomentose or m&piu. u W r CO r wu " — > ~ 



broadly ovate, elliptic or obovate- elliptic ; apex acute ; the edges regularly and finely dentate 



the base deeply cordate, often much 



rrowed, 3- to 5- or even 7-nerved ; lateral primary 



_»._ about 8 pairs; upper surface scabrid and shortly and deciduously lnspid; the midnb and 



nerves with brownish white pubescence ; lower surface shortly hispid ; the midnb and primary 

 nerves ferruginous-tomentose; length of blade 8 to 14 in.; petioles stout, tomentose about 

 1 in. long ; stipules large, ovate, acuminate, much convolute, more or less setose externally 1 o 



Receptacles almost sessile, solitary, axillary, globose, densely ferrugmous-tomcnto.se, 



long 



about -8 in. across ; umbilical scales large ; basal bracts 3, ovate 





