COVELLIA. 



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', gamopln 



being without any apparent perianth, while others hare a very short, 



perianth which surrronnds the base of the stalk of the ovary. The L , , v. , afao ^Zvt'ZZ 

 variety both in form and texture. The form which is very common about fringapor, and 

 which Walhch issued as No. 4543 of his catalogue under the name of F dipUk ha* 



lanceolate, suddenly acuminate leaves. The leaves of most of the tonus are membranous in 



texture ; but in Sumatra and Western Java there occurs a form with small wib-cori-iceom 

 leaves, to which Miquel gave the name F. tengeremh: the leaves of this last are also 

 sometimes serrate. 



I have carefully examined the types of all the species which I have reduced lure, and 

 I have dissected about forty of their receptacles. I have compared these with Reinwardt' 

 type specimen of F. fisiulosa in the Leiden Herbarium, and I see no reason for keepin anv 



of them distinct from Reinwardt's species 



Plate 150.—^. fstulosa, Reinw. (stem-fruiting form). 1, apex of a leafy branch ; 2 



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with much narrowed base (from another plant) ; 3, a fascicle of mature receptacles; 4, np< ,,f 

 receptacle; 5, stipules— all of natural size; 6, pedicellate fertile female flower, with Bhort 

 gamophyllous perianth; 7, sub-sessile fertile female without apparent perianth: enlirgul 



Plate 151 .—F. fstulosa, Reinw. (form with axillary receptacles). 1, apex of a fruitin 

 branch of the form called F. dlphylla by Wallich; 2, leaf of another form with more mnnei 



primary lateral nerves and less acuminate apex ; 3, receptacles from stem below the lew 



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fural sue; 4 & 5, male flowers with the perianth opened out; 6, gall flower 

 with short gamophyllous perianth; 7 & 8, pedicellate gall flowers without apparent perianth ; 

 9 & 10, fertile female flowers with perianth; 11 & 12, fertile female flowers without 

 perianth : all enlarged. 



139. Ficus s^mocaepa, Miq. Ann. J\Jns. Lugd Bat. iii. 232, 20G— J: pyrrho 



carpa, Kurz For. Flora Brit. Burmah ii. 457; Brand is For. Flora, 424.— 



F. tuberculata } Wall. Cat. 4539 (not of Roxb.). — ? F. squamosa, Boxb., and 



F. laminosa, Hardw., Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 531. 



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A low, spreading shrub; the young branches and petioles densely but deciduously 

 hirsute. Leaves opposite, crowded, thickly membranous, petiolate, narrowly lanceolate or 

 oblanceolate, with acuminate apex and entire edges; the base very gradually narrowed 

 to the petiole, 3-nerved; lateral primary nerves about 6 to 8 pairs; secondary 

 reticulations fine but distinct, and with the midrib minutely strigose on the lower surface 

 when young, often becoming glabrescent when adult ; the rest of the lower surface glabrous, 

 smooth, or scabrid from numerous minute white tubercles (rarely hispid-puberulous) ; upper 

 surface smooth (rarely scabrid); length of blade 3 in. to 9 in.; petioles *3 to *9 in. long; 

 stipules persistent, scarious, in pairs, ovate-acuminate, glabrous, with a line of hairs along 

 the midrib externally, from *3 to -6 in. long. Receptacles pedunculate, solitary in the axils 

 of leaves or of fallen leaves, or on short, leafless branches from the old wood, sub-globo-e, 

 constricted at the base, with a prominent, large-bracted umbilicus, and a few glabrous 

 bracts irregularly scattered on their sides; tomentose hispid, verrucose, 8- or 10-ribbed, 

 brownish when ripe, from -5 in. to 1 in. across ; basal bracts 3, triangular, decid 



peduncle -2 in. to -6 in. long, pubescent. Male flowers with a perianth of three or four 



pieces 



the single anther ovate or obovate. Gall perianth hyaline, closely applied to tl 



smooth ovary ; style short, lateral ; stigma tubular. Fertile female flowers with perianth like 

 the galls; the achene rhomboid, hairy, with very long, filamentous, hairy style. 



Akh. Bot. Gard. Calc. Yol. I. 



