COV'ELLIA. 





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and petiole, adpressed pilose-hispid, the rest of the lower surface (but especially the int im- 

 mediate nerves and open, distinct, reticulations) sparsely covered with hurt rather stiff 

 hairs; the upper surface glabrous; length of blado 12 to 15 in., breadth not more than 

 3 in.; petiole *4 to -6 in.; stipules of leaves linear-lanceolate, 1-5 in. long. Recrptacles 

 borne on much-divided, scurfy, villose, leafless, stipule-bearing branches, which rise from the 

 stem near the ground, solitary, nearly sessile, depressed-globose, the sides bearing many 

 fleshy, broad, flat, slightly uncinate bracts, the bodies of which are fused with the i ccptaele 



leaving only the apices free ; the whole surface, except the glabrous apices of the bract 



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ed with deciduous scurf which ultimately completely disappears; apical umbilicus 

 depressed, surrounded by a ring of sausage-shaped, fleshy, uncinate bracts; ba d bracts '{, 

 ovate-acuminate, adpressed; pedicel *1 to -2 in. long, broad, flat. Male and gall flowers not 

 seen. Fertile female flowers without perianth, pedicellate; carpel smooth, rhomboid; style 

 smooth, thin, lateral, short ; stigma cylindric. 



Sarawak in Borneo, — Beccari, Herb. 13ecc. P. B. 2900. 



A very distinct and handsome species, worthy to bear the name of its illusti 



discoverer. Like F. hypogcea, this has either entirely or partially subterranean recepti 

 It is closely allied to that species, but is readily distinguished from it by its leaves 

 stipules. 



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Plate 130. — 1, apex of leafy branch of F. Bcccari, King; 2, part of a fig-bearing bra 

 3, a receptacle — seen from the side; 4, apex of the same; 5, stipules from the fig-bet 

 branch ; 6, stipules from the leafy branch — all of natural size ; 7 & 8, carpels: enlarged. 



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119. Ficus conoua, nov. spec 



A tree ; all the young parts softly pubescent ; the young branches pale-coloured. Leaves 

 petiolate, \nembranous, elongate-lanceolate, slightly inequilateral; the apex acuminate; the 

 edges entire; the base narrowed, 3-nerved; primary lateral nerves 5 to 8 pairs, slightly 

 prominent beneath and, like the midrib, tomentose; the rest of the under surface pale in 



colour and (in the adult state) very shortly hispid and minutely papillose (the papillae 

 whitej; upper surface covered with very minute white dots, but no hairs; length of blade 

 4 to 7 in.; petiole # 35 in. long, tomentose; stipules lanceolate, pubescent externally, -6 in. 

 long. Receptacles borne on long, thin, flexuose, leafless, nearly glabrous branches which 

 issue from the base of the stem, solitary, long-pedunculate, turbinate; the apex ver\ 

 broad and depressed ; the sides faintly ridged, scurfy-pubescent, and with numerous flat, 

 smooth warts; 1 in. across when ripe; umbilical scales large and thick; basal bracts none. 

 peduncle thick, pubescent, bearing 3 small, broadly triangular bracts at or below the 

 middle, varying in length from -5 in. to 1 25 in. Fertile female flowers pedicellate or 

 sessile; the ovary sub-globular, smooth; style elongate, subterminal; receptacular scales 

 long, pale, not numerous. Male and gall flowers unknown. 



New Gvme*,-Bamoi ; Beccari, Herb. Becc. P. P. No 388.— Ternate ad Acqui conora, 

 JBeccari. 



The receptacles are often either partially or entirely covered by the soil. 



Platk 181.-JP. conora, Kin*. J, leafy branch; 2, fig-bearing banch with n.ature 



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ptacles-o/ natural ike ; 3, piece of a leaf to show the minute tubercle* on 



