COVELLIA. 



Ill 



nerves about 6 pairs, prominent beneath and, like the midrib, covered with adpressed 

 white hairs; both surfaces thickly covered with minute white tubercles sub-scabrid 



, axAK, bwuxkm. j 



'SO 



length of blade 3 inches; petiole adpressed-pubescent, 4 in. long; stipules lanceolate, i 

 •6 in. long. Receptacles on long, ramous, pubescent, leafless branches from the stem,' sessile 

 sub-globose, densely pilose, slightly contracted at the base into a short stalk; basal bracts 3 

 minute, pilose. Fertile female flowers without perianth, sessile or pedicellate, surrounded at their 

 bases by the numerous hairs of the interior of the receptacle; carpel elongate obovate • t ho 

 style short. Male flowers, according to Miquel, monandrous ; the perianth of 4 leaflets. 



Philippines, — Cuming, No. 1938. 



A species not far removed from F. ribes, Reinw., but distinguished from that 



species by its sub-rhomboid, fewer-nerved, densely-tubcrculate leaves. This has nothing to 

 do with the plant issued as F. cuneata by Wallich (Cat. No. 4534), which is, as I em 



informed by Mr. W. Botting Hemsley, not a Ficus at all, but Erythroxylon Burmanicum 



G riff. 



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Plate 145A. — F. cuneata, Miq. 1, leafy branch; 2, leafless branch with ma tun 



receptacles; 3, stipules — all of natural size; 4 & 5, sessile and pedicellate fertile female 

 flowers ; 6 & 7, gall flowers ; 8, male flower : all enlarged. {Nos. 6 to 8 are copied from 

 Miquel. ) 



Receptacles on shortened bvanchlcts (tubercles) from the stem 



and larger branches, never from the axils of the leases; 

 leaves alternate. 



133. Ficus dimorpha, nov. spec. 



A small tree; the young shoots deciduously hispid-tomentose. Leaves petiolatc, sub- 

 coriaceous, inequilateral, elliptic or obovate^elliptic ; the apex acute, shortly cuspidate; the 

 edges rather remotely dentate; the base rounded, slightly auricled on one sid< 

 3-nerved, with an additional minute nerve in the auricled side; primary Literal nerves 

 6 or 7 pairs, not prominent; the under surface dull, harshly pubescent, especially on the 

 midrib and nerves; the reticulations indistinct; upper surface glabrous and shining; 

 length of blade 45 to 6 in.; petiole 5 to -75 in., pilose; stipules ovate-lanceolate, slightly 

 pubescent externally, '7 in. long. Receptacles pedunculate, in small fascicles from the 

 stem and larger branches, of two forms: -(a) Those containing gall and male Jluwers, which 

 are pyriform, truncate at the apex, gradually constricted at the base into a long, thin 

 stalk at the union of which with the peduncle proper are three deciduous bracts; wrinkled, 



errucose, 



pubescent; total length 2'5 in. of which the stalk forms more than half 

 breadth at apex 1 in. ; peduncle proper 5 in. Male florets numerous under the bracts of 

 the mouth ; stamen 1 ; perianth of 3 concave pieces. Gall florets elongate, with a short 

 sub-terminal tyle ; perianth minute, 3-cleft. (b) Those containing fertile female florets ' * ' 

 the apex concave and the umbilicus depressed; the base constricted into a stalky in 

 long; length 1 in., breadth 13 in.; peduncle proper -2 in. Fertile female florets 



turbinate 



pedicellate ; achene ovate-rotund ; perianth undivided or splitting irregularly 



The elongate receptacles occur mostly on the stem, the globular on the branches 

 The former contain perfect male flowers and scales with rudimentary 

 female flowers (galls) ; the latter perfect fertilised female flowers. 



thers and ba 



