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SYCIDIUM. 



Moluccas, — Remivardt ; Ternate, Beccari. 



A plant of which I have seen good specimens only in the magnificent Malayan 

 Herbarium of Signor Beccari. 



Plate 122. — F. pungens, Reinw. Branch with nearly mature receptacles. 1 mature 

 receptacle; 2, base of the same; 3, stipules; 4, basal bract : all of natural size. 





Perianth of the flowers dilate ; the interior of the receptacle hispid ; receptacles 



axillary. 



111. Ficus melixocarpa, BL Bijd 460; Miq Ft. lad. Bat. i. pt. 2. 302; SuppL 



173, 427.— F. obliqua, Miq. in Zoll. Syst. Verz. 98; Ann. Mus. Lugd. 

 Bat. iii. 273, 292. 



A moderately-sized (40 to 50 ft. high), hispid -tomentose tree. Leaves petiolate, 

 membranous, often unequal in size and inequilateral, broadly ovate or elliptic, with sub-acute 

 ;.-pex, entire edges, and 3 to 5-nerved, glandular, broad, rounded, slightly cordate, sometimes 



unequal base ; length of blade from 4 to 7 in. ; lateral nerves from 3 to 8 pairs ; the 

 lower surface minutely hispid-tuberculate ; npper surface shortly hispid-scabrous ; the 

 midrib and nerves tomentose on both surfaces ; petioles from *6 to *8 in., tomentose ; 

 stipules ovate-lanceolate, hirsute, '3 in. to *7 in long. Receptacles pedunculate, axillary, 

 in pairs or solitary, or in fascicles below the leaves ; globular or turbinate, with prom- 

 inent, nearly glabrous, umbilical scales and 3 broad, acuminate, small basal bracts ; when 

 ripe, yellow (fide Zollinger), minutely hispid, almost glabrescent, about *4 to *6 in. across ; 

 peduncles *3 in. long, shortly hispid. Male flowers sessile, monandrous ; the perianth of 

 3 distinct pieces. Gall flowers stipitate ; the perianth of 6 pieces ; achene smooth, ovoid ; 

 the style sub-terminal. Fertile female flowers pedicellate ; the perianth of 3 distinct pieces, 

 which have tufts of hair at their apices ; achene and style lateral ; stigma dilated. 



Preanger province in Java ; Lampongs in Sumatra. 



A distinct and apparently rather local species.— F. scabra, Forst. Seem. Fl. Vit. 249, 

 appears to me to be little more than a form of this. 



Plate 119. — F. melinocarpa, Bl. Branch with mature receptacles. 1, apex of receptacle; 

 2, stipules— of natural size ; 3, male flower; 4, gall flower; 5, fertile female flower: enlarged. 





112. Ficus Riedelii, Teysm. Mss. ; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat iii. 223, 292 



A small hispid-tomentose tree, the young branches rufescent. Leaves shortly petiolate, 

 thickly membranous (almost coriaceous), oblong lanceolate or narrowly oblong-elliptic, rarely 

 ovate-elliptic, often inequilateral ; apex usually suddenly and shortly acute or acuminate ; 

 edges sub-entire or remotely serrate ; base rounded, sometimes emarginate, slightly oblique, 

 5 nerved (2 of the nerves minute) ; lateral primary nerves 3 to 5 pairs ; the whole of the 

 under surface minutely tuberculate, the midrib, nerves, and veins shortly hispid ; upper surface 

 sparsely hispid, very scabrous from rough points ; midrib and veins hispid-hirsute ; petioles 

 hispid-hirsute, stout, about -3 in. long ; stipules lanceolate-hirsute, small. Receptacles very 

 hortly pedunculate or sessile, axillary, solitary (rarely in pairs), ovoid to sub-globose, umbonate 





