m 



COVELLIA. 



ooth; styl 



* 



rather short, lateral; stigma large, discoid. Fertile female flowers unknown. 



Mature receptacles not 



B 



Sig. Beccari (Herb. Becc. No. 857) 



The very densely fasciculate, glabrous, receptacles are distinctive of this species 



o 



1, apex of leafy brand 



2 



& 3, fascicles 



4, a single immature receptacle; 5 



of immature 

 apex of the same ; 6, basal 



8, young male flower ; 9, old male fl 



* 



10 & 



1 



> 



Plate 149.—^. condensa, K 

 receptacles from branches; 

 bracts ; 7 stipules— all of natural 

 gall flowers : enlarged. 



Receptacles in the axils of the leaves, or in fascicles from the 



stem or larger branches; the leaves alternate or opposite. 





138 



FlCUS FISTULOSA, 



Eeinw 



in 



Bl 



Bijd 



470 



Kt 



Ft. Brit Burmah 



459 (in part) 



F. 



sub-oppusita, Miq. (sub Covellia) 



PI 



Jungl 



66 



? 



des Plantes de Buitenzorg, tab. xv. ; Fl. Ind. Bat 



i. 



2. 327 



175 



Bat 

 296 



Bat 



43 



F. gemin ifo lia 



Miq 



in 



Zoll 



Syst. V 



P 



2 



313 



F. tevgerensis, Miq. in Ann. Mus 



93; 



Lugd 



Fl 



* ii. 



Choix 

 Suppl. 



Ind. 



in. 



Covellia tuber culata 



Miq 



in 



Zoll 



i. 



2 



325 



F. diphglla, Wall 



Syst 

 Cat. 



pz. 



94 



99 



No 



4543 



t 



Bat. 

 Fl. Ind 



Ilullcttii 



King MSS 



A 



small tree or shrub; the youns: shoots with a 



o 



few stiff, adpressed 



hairs 



at tl 



wollen annular nodes, otherwise glabi 



Leaves alternate or 



membranous or sub 



ovate-lanceolate, obovate-lanceolate 



s, especially 

 pposite, petiolate, 



oblon 



g or ellipt 



sometimes inequilateral; the apex acute or shortly acuminate; the edges entire, rarely 



remotely sub-serrate 



the base rounded or narrowed, sometimes 



qual, 3 -nerved 



primary lateral nerves 4 to 7 pairs, spreading, rather prominent and coloured beneath 



are 



the 



ndary nerves and reticulations 



both 



faces quite glabrous, the lowe 



petioles often slightly 



minutely tuborculate ; length of blade 3*5 to 7 and even 10 in. ; 



unequal on the same plant, -5 in. to 1'5 in. long; stipules ovate-lanceolate, scarious, -5 to 



small fascicles 

 ; when young, 



or in 



•75 in. long. Receptacles pedunculate, axillary, in pairs or solitary, 



from tubercles on the larger branches below the leaves or from the main stem 



etimes sub-pyriform ; when mature, depressed-globose, glabrous, about *6 in. in diamete 



(occasionally 



■ly 1 



sometim 



verrucose and constricted into a short stalk at 



o in. 



the base ; umbilical scales numerous ; basal bracts 3, small, ovate-acute ; peduncle proper *2 

 to 1*5 in. in the receptacles borne on the stem. Male flowers few just under the ostiole 

 the perianth of 2 or 3 concave, mJ 



eh imbricated 



pieces 



which tightly embrace the single 



stamen 



filament rather long, thick. Gall flowers without 



any 



evident perianth, or with 



very short, hyaline, gamophyllous perianth, which surrounds the base of the pedicel of 



the ovary 



ary ovoid, smooth ; the style short, sub-terminal ; stigma infundibuliform. 



or pedicellate ; perianth as in the gall flowers ; achene 



Fertile female flowers sub-sessile 



obliquely obovoid, minutely tuberculate ; style as long as the achene, lateral ; stigma cylindric 



The Malayan Archipelago and Peninsula, Burmah, Chittagong, and Khasi Hills. 



This 



widely distributed species 



and, as might therefore 



be 



considerable variations in form. In some individuals the 



pected, it presents 

 iptacles are all axillary and 



•anches, and 

 long pedunculate, and the latter as a rule contain only fertile female flowers. As regards the 



shortly pedunculate 



others they are all in fascicles on the stem and older b 



g of both the gall and the fertile female flowers, there is want of uniformity ; som 



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