COVELLIA. 



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tyle thin, about as long as the ovary, sub-terminal ; stigma eluvate. Malo ami gall fl 



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not seen. 



Banks of the Kampo River, Perak,— H. Kunstler (King's Collector No 934) 

 This is a small tree, about 15 ft. high, which is apparently not common 

 ptacles, when ripe, are of a russet brown colour. 

 Plate 147.—^. Scortechinii, King. 1, apex of a leafy branch; 2, a fascicle of 



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, a iasciclc of matur 



receptacles from the stem; 3, apex of receptacle; 4, base; 5, Bfcipules-o/ natural 

 6 & 7, fertile female flowers : enlarged. 



size ; 



136. Ficus Harlandi, Benth. FL Hong-Kong, 330 



A tree ; the young branches with a few stiff hairs, ultimately glabrous. Leaves petiolate 

 membranous, alternate or opposite, elliptic-oblong or obovate-oblong ; apex acute- euV ( * 



entire; base cuneate, 5-nerved (2 of the nerves very small); primary lateral nerves 

 about 8 pairs; under surface minutely tuberculate, the reticulations distinct; upper surface 

 glabrous; length of blade 6 to 7 in.; petiole about 1 in.; stipules ovate-lanceolate 75 

 in. long. Receptacles in fascicles on contracted tubercled branches from the old wood 

 sub-globular, glabrous, with a few scattered bractlets on the sides, contracted at the be e into 

 a short stalk at the junction of which with the peduncle proper are 3 small labrous 

 bracts, *5 in. across; peduncles proper -3 in. to 1 in. Male flowers forming a sub-ostiolar 

 zone, sessile; the perianth of 3 broad pieces, rather inflated; stamen ovate, acute; filament 



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short, thick. Gall flowers pedicellate, without perianth ; ovary smooth, obliquely ohovoid, with 

 short lateral style and tubular stigma. Fertile female flowers with short, narrow, tubular 

 perianth which surrounds the lower part of the pedicel of the sub-rhomboid, niinut ly- 

 tuberculate achene ; the style elongate ; stigma clavate, cylindric. 



Hong-Kong, — Harland, Hance. 



Mr. Bentham says this is not known out of the island of Hong-Kong. It is, however, 

 closely allied to F. fistulosa, Reinw., of which it is, I suspect, only a form. 



Plate 148. — 1, apex of leafy branch of F. Harlandi, Benth.; 2, fascicles of immature 



receptacles; 3, mature receptacle; 4, apex of the same; 5, stipule— all of natural sue; 6, 

 male flower ; 7, gall flower ; 8, fertile female flower : all enlarged. 



137. Ficus condensa, nov. spec 



A tree; the young shoots glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, petiolate, ovate-elliptic, 

 shortly acuminate; the edges entire; base slightly narrowed, boldly 3-nerved; primary lateral 

 nerves 5 or 6 pairs, prominent like the midrib, coloured and very sparsely adpressed-pilose 

 on the lower surface when young; in adult leaves both surfaces glabrous; the lower 

 conspicuously but minutely white-tuberculate ; length of blade 4 to 6 in.; petiole stout, 

 •6 in. to *8 in. long; stipules lanceolate, scarious, '8 in. long. Receptacles in densely 

 crowded fascicles from very short tubercles on the stem and larger branches, pedunculate, 

 pyriform, wrinkled, puberulous or glabrous; the apex truncate, the umbilical scales small, 

 numerous, rather prominent; base constricted into a kind of stalk at the union of winch 

 with the peduncle proper are 3 small, ovate, basal bracts ; peduncle proper -35 in. long, 

 puberulous. Male flowers with 3 concave perianth leaves ; stamen 1 ; the anther elongate, 



Gall flowers without obvious perianth ; ovary shortly pedicellate, ovoid- globose, 



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