118 



COVELLIA. 



142. 



FlCUS LEPICARPA, Bf. 



459 ; Miq. in. Ann. Mas. Lugd. Bat. iii. 283 297 

 F. v o Ik ame rice folia. Wall. Cat 4542. — Covellia didyma, Miq. PI. Jun^h 6" • 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 327. — Covellia lepicarpa, Miq . Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2 32ft' 

 Covellia volktmericefo.ia, Miq. in Lond. Joum. Bot. vii. 464. tab, 8 



petiolat 



small tree ; the young branches swollen at the nodes, deciduously pubescent 



thickly 



membranous, alternate 



or sub-opposite, obovate-obl 



o 



the 



Leaves 



apex shortly 



mu 



ch 



abruptly acuminate ; margin entire, rarely sub-repand towards the apex ■ the base 



ed 



often unequal, 5 -nerved (2 



7 



8 pairs 



> 



ect 



rather straight 



of the nerves minute) 



primary lateral 



secondary nerves straight, parallel, prominent 



mi 



d 



face which is glabrous and minutely tuberculate ; upper surface glabrous 



and nerves which 



stipules large, r 



pubescent; length of blade 7 to 10 in. ; petioles '7 b to 1*25 



on the 



pt the 



ather long persistent, ovate-lanceolate, scarious, 



75 in. to 1 in. long. 



Recep- 

 tacles sessile, axillary, usually solitary, ellipsoid, sides sparsely and coarsely pubescent with 



umbilicus ; 

 e flowers 



any 



white warts and a row of large flat, often white-tipped, bracts below the 



bilical bracts numerous; basal bracts 3, ovate- acuminate 



y few, near the mouth of the receptacles containing gall fl 



preadin 



Mai 



the perianth of 3 membr 



sessile, short, broad 



> 



inflated pieces ; stamen 1, its filament adn ate, stout, curved 



> 



Gall flowers half-ovoid; the style terminal; stigma much dilated 



opm 



the who! 



pistil 



the perianth a pellucid 



P 



nth small, shorter than the stalk of the 



pt the stigma. Fertile female flowers pedicellate 



teeth ; achene 



cylindr 



obliquely obovoiJ, minutely tuberculate; the style lateral, elongate 



; the 

 y, gamophyllous, with minute irregular 



stigma 



7 



Java, Sumatra, Perak 



j 



King's Collector, Nos. 1836 



y 



1902, 2013 



In crevices of rocks, in the beds and by the sides of streams 



3,500 ft. Miquel describes the 



ptacles as sometimes 



up to elevations 



tubercle 



the stem, but I have nowhere 



pedunculate and bor 



of 

 on 



any specimen showing this arrangement, and 



Mr. H. O. Forbes, who collected many examples of the plant in Java and Sumatra, and who 

 made notes and sketches at the time of collection, describes the receptacles as always axillarv. 



aiso 



does 



Mr. Kunstler, who collected it in Perak. Receptacles containing male flowei 

 are rare, and I had to examine a large number of receptacles before I found one. 



J 



In 



that receptacle the males were but few in number, and lav quite close to the scales under 



mouth 



m the same receptacle the gall flowers were young, and it is possible that 



the half-ovoid shape which I have figured 



Jit 

 Although receptacles containing true female flowers 



containing achenes are to be met with, for 

 never fertilised 



D — ~ mignt have become modified with maturity 



very nume 



i 



not many embrj 



These unfertilised Aotv 



a large proportion of the female flowers are 



of the achene more memb 

 sorts are alike. 



In Botanische Zcitima 



differ from the fertilised 



having the pericarp 



and slightly tubercular on the surface : in form the t 



for 1885, at page 538, Count Solms Laubacl 



trees bearing the name lepicarpa in the Botanic Gard 



Co velli 



lepicarpa 



Miq 



(th 



Boek 



of Buitenzor 



axillary receptacles, in which he found 



lepicarpa, var. Bunj 





with white milk 



Boek 

 nly 



of Sumatra 



o 



mentions tw 

 imely, No. 5 



i 



with yellovv milk and 



ma 



gall flowers 



y 



N 



6. Covellia 



? 



found only fertile female fl 

 with either Count Solms Laubach 



d receptacles borne on the stem, in which he 



cannot reconcile my account of F. lepicarpa 



Miq 



5 



6 



1 



F. lepicarpa, Miq 



understand it 







