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COVELLIA. 



Plate 127. — F. cunia, Ham., var. conglomerate Apex of a leafy branch and part of a 

 frui ring-branch bearing mature receptacles— both of natural sue. 1, male flower; 2 o-all 

 flower ; 3, f ertile female flower : enlarged. 



117. Ficus geocarpa, Teysm. Mss. ; Miq. in Ann. Mas. Lugd. Bat. iii. 231 296. 



A small tree ; the young shoots densely hispid-pilose or setose. Leaves membranous 

 shortly petiolate, inequilateral, oblong; the apex acuminate; edges entire ; base very unequal' 

 semi sagittate ; the larger basal lobe with 4 or 5 nerves, the smaller 1 -nerved; primarv 

 lateral nerves 4 to 7 pairs, prominent (as also is the midrib) on both surfaces; lower surface 

 minutely papillose, pilose-hispid, especially on the midrib and nerves ; upper surface like 

 the under, but the hairs sparser and more adpressed; length of blade 9 to 15 



m. ; 



petiole '5 to *75 in., setose; stipules oblong-lanceolate, adpressed-pilose externally, their 

 midribs setose, the inner surface glabrous, from 1-5 to 2 in. long. Receptacles borne on thin 

 setose or hispid root-emitting branches which issue from the base of the trunk: solitary 

 from the axils of opposite abortive leaves or stipules ; shortly pedunculate or sessile, pyriform 

 or depressed-globose, the surface bearing many membranous or fleshy bracts which 



fluent at their bases and free only at their thickened, slightly in-curved sub-o-kb 



_ — — «-> * m «* m — _ — **J 



are 



apices ; the whole surface, including the lower and confluent part of the bracts, densely covered 

 with brown tomentum ; about 1 in. to 1 *4 in. across ; the apical umbilicus depressed, surrounded 

 by an irregular double ring of in-curved, thickened bracts ; basal bracts 4 or o, small, ovate 

 glabrous, adpressed ; peduncle, when present, -1 to -2 in , glabrous. Fertile female flowers 

 pedicellate, without perianth; the style twice as long as the ovary, lateral; stigma clavate* 

 ripe achene rhomboid, minutely tuberculate. 



Celebes, - Tegmiann ; Sarawak in Borneo,— Bee can., Herb. Becc. P B. Nos. 2797 and 



2901 



Var. uncinata. 



Receptacles pyriform, sub-globose; the bracts on their surface longer and more fleshy 

 than in the type, uncinate; peduncles about 5* in. long, bearing many uncinate bracts. 



Borneo,— Beccari, Herb. Becc. P. B. 2458. 



ptacle-bearing branches of this and allied species often bury themselves in the 



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soil, and the figs are quite subter 



Plate 128.—F. geocarpa, Teysm. 1, apex of leafy branch ; 2, pieces of a fruiting-branch 

 bearing receptacles in various stages of immaturity ; X, mature receptacle seen from the side ; 

 4, apex of the same ; 5, stipules -atf of natural size ; 6, fertile female flower, young; 7, ripe 

 achene of fertile female : enlarged. 



Plate 129.— F. geocarpa, Teysm., var. uncinata. 1, apex of leafy branch; 2, part of a 

 fruiting-branch with receptacles in various stages of ripeness: of natural size. 



118. Ficus Beccaeii, nor. spec. 



A small tree (?) ; the young branches completely covered with very closely adpressed. 

 stilt tawny hairs. The leaves shortly petiolate, membranous, oblong-lanceolate ; the apex 

 piocluced into a long, narrow acumen; the edges entire, slightly recurved; the base cuneate, 

 J-nerved; primary lateral nerves about 12 puirs, prominent beneath and. like the midrib 











