COVELLIA. 



109 



size ; 8, side view of a single receptacle ; 9 & 10, apex and base of 



lightly enlarged 



11, unexpanded male flower; 12, single stamen of male flower embedded in one of tin- 



pieces of the perianth; 13, gall flower; 14, fertile female flow 

 female : all enlarged. 



1 



aclinic of fertil 



129. Ficus stipata, nov. spec 



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A tree; the young branches softly pubescent. Leaves shortly petiol ate, membranous. 



slightly inequilateral, oval-elliptic or occasionally obovate-elliptic, narrowed to each end ; th 

 apex with a long narrow tail nearly 15 in. long ; base sub-cordate, 5 nerved ; ed^es waved sub- 



entire; primary lateral nerves about 8 pairs, stout and, like the midrib, prominent on the low 

 surface which is softly pubescent, the reticulations being very distinct ; upper surfa" 



r 



in. ; petioles stout 



glabrous, shining; length of blade 10 to 12 



stipules 2 at the base of each petiole, linear- lanceolate, 



ee 



i 



softly pubescent, '8 in. Ion 



V ' 



erect, pubescent, *8 in 



long. Recep- 



tacles in dense clusters from very short tubercles from the branches issuing from the stem 



long peduncles, globular, slightly 



'75 in. to 1-25 in. lonir. 



> 



near the root, apparently hypogoeal or sub-hypogoeal, on 



umbonate, glabrous ; basal bracts none ; peduncles slender, scabrid 



Male and gall flowers not seen. Fertile female flowers with no apparent perianth, some of 



them enclosed in scales of the receptacle; carpel obovoid; style long; stigma elavate. 



S/'g. Bcccari, Herb. 



Province of Padang, in Sumatra, at an elevation of about 1,300 



ft. 



> 



geocarpa 



> 



but 



the small, crowded receptacles are 



totally 



Becc. P. S. No. 648. 



In foliage this resembles F. 

 different from those of that species. 



Plate 142.— F. stipata, King. 1, apex of leafy branch ; 2, part of root-branch with 



fascicles of nearly mature receptacles — of natural size ; 3, mature receptacle— slightly enlarged ; 

 4, carpel : much enlarged. 



130. 



Ficus Forbesii, nov. spec 



tree ; the young branches, petioles and midribs of the leaves 



short, tawny tomentum 

 elliptic ; 



Leaves thickly membranous, shortly petiolate, ellipt 



d with dense 



'c or obovat* 



i 



the apex suddenly and shortly cuspidate; gradually 



middle to the blunt 3 -nerved base 



the 



edges entir 



wed from above the 

 primary lateral nerves 12 to 20 



pairs, prominent on the lower surface, as are the midrib and straight transverse secondary 



nerves : 



hairs 



> 



the whole of the rest of the lower sui 

 length of blade 12 to 15 in. 



face sparsely covered with stellate tawny 



petiole stout, '25 in. long. Receptacles in lax 



umbels from long, leafless 



near its base; pedunculate, globose, glab 



glabrous, little- divided branches 



25 in. 



which issue from the stem 

 across, slightly umbonate at the 



apex 



the base constricted into a short stalk at the junction of which with the peduncle 



Male and gall flowers not seen. Female flower without 



proper are 3 ovate-acute bracts 



obvious perianth; ovary 



obovate, about half as long as the style 



Sumatra,— Mr. H. 0. Forbes (Herb. Forb 

 The receptacular branches ramify very 



? 



without number) 



littl 



at their apices 



there are whorls of 



stipule-like lanceolate bracteoles 



The stellate pubescen 



is very peculiar 



comes 



very 



near F. riles, Reinw., from which 



it differs chiefly in its leaves 



This species 



The 



female flowers of this are exactly like those of F. ribes 



I have been able to find no 





