124 



EtTSYCE. 



Eeceptaoles globular. 



Sessile, or nearly so . ' . . . .*.'.* 137 



Shortly pedunculate. 



F. chartacea. 



Leaves sub-coriaceous, narrowed to base . . . . . . 188. F. olecefolia. 



Leaves membranous. 







Receptacles sparsely strigose 189. F. pauper 



Receptacles minutely tuberculate i 90 . R Soronemis. 



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A II three kinds of flowers in the same receptacle (as in Urostigma) 



Male flowers 2- or 3-androus 

 Male flowers 1-androus . . 



191„ F. nemoralis 

 192. F. lepidosa. 



Scandent or Creeping Shrubs. 



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144. Ficus pumila, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1. 1060; Kaempf. Am. Exot 803. t. 804. 



F.pumila var. a Thunb., Fl. Jap. 33 ; Maxim, in Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. xi 

 341.— J*, stipulate*, Thunb. (pi. sterilis) et F. pumila (pi. fertilis), Thunb 

 Ficus 8; Sieb. Syn. PL (Econ, No. 174; Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii 

 439; in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 199. iii. 294; in Journ. Bot. Neerl 



1. 



243 ; Benth. Fl. Hong-Kong, 328 ; Fl. Austr. vi. 171 ; Maxim. Bull. Acad. 

 St. Petersb. xi. 342.— Tenorea heterophylla, Gasp. Rich. 81 .— Plagiostigma 

 stipulata and pumila, Zuccarini, Abh. Bayr. Akad. iv. 1. 154. t. 1. ftg. 6—9- 

 Hance in Seem. Journ. Bot. iv. 54.— F. Hanciana, Maxim, in Bull. Acad. 

 St. Petersb. xi. 341.— J 7 , erecta, auctor. plur. sed non Thunb. 



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A scandent or creeping shrub with dimorphous leaves, rooting freely from the stem and 

 the small-leaved barren branches. Fruiting-branches erect or spreading, not rooting ; while 

 young fulvous-pubescent, as are also the petioles and young receptacles; leaves petiolate, 

 thickly membranous, ovate or ovate-elliptic, with sub-acute, bluntish apex, entire edges, and 

 cordate, 7-nerved, equal-sided base ; lateral primary nerves 4 to 5 pairs, prominent on the lower 

 and depressed on the upper surface ; secondary nerves also prominent, and the reticulations 

 very strong, distinct, areolar on the under surf ace, which is minutely pubescent ; upper surface 



glabrous except the midrib and main nerves, which are pubescent; length of blade 2 5 to 

 3 in. ; petioles *4 in. ; stipules 2 to each leaf, linear-lanceolate, f ulvo-sericeous externally. 

 Leaves of the stem and barren branches ovate-cordate and slightly oblique at the base, 



1 in. and under in length, with very short (-1 to -15 in. long) petioles. Receptacles borne 



the spreading, large-leaved branches, pedunculate, solitary, axillary, pyriform, with 



the apex truncate; umbonate, with rather prominent umbilicus; when full grown about 



2 in. long and 1*25 in. across, and of a beautiful purple colour; basal bracts 3; peduncle 

 thick, pubescent, *5 in. long. Male flowers numerous towards the apex of the receptacles, 

 very large, on pedicels of varying length (some of them '5 in. long) ; perianth of 2 or 3 

 distinct pieces; anthers 2, narrowly elongate, placed face to face, nearly sessile. Female 



in the same perianth with the males, barren; the perianth of 4 or 5 distinct 

 pieces ; achene sub-globular, smooth ; style lateral ; stigma oblique, dilated. Fertile female 



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flowers unknown 



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