128 



EUSYCE. 



enlarged, 



Plate 115B.-Branch of F cxcavata, King, with immature receptacles. 1, apex of 

 ptacle; 2, base of the same; 3, stipule-^ of natural size; 4, fertile 



a 



female flow 



149. Ficus wis, Bl. Bijd. 437; Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat iii. 278 



293 



Pognnotropke lavis, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 330; Miq. in Zoll Syst 

 Verz. 99.— Pogon. Assamica, Miq. Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 73.-^. vaqans 

 Koxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 537.-F. modi, Herb. Ind. Or. Hook. fil. and T.' Thorns 

 (not of Wall.).- Pogonotropke dasyphylla, Miq. in Lond. Journ Bot 



74 ; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 293 ; Thwaites C. P. 233 



F. Ceylt 



liar j 



Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 293 ; Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 7 



A powerful epiphytal climber, occasionally (var. Assamica) a small tree ; the youn ff narts 

 usually glabrous, but not ^frequently pubescent. Leaves membranous, long-petioke, rotund- 

 ovate or broadly ovate, rarely ovate-elliptic, narrowing rather suddenly towards the shortlv 

 cuspidate apex ; margins indistinctly dentate towards the apex or entire ; base broad rounded 

 or emargmate, occasionally more or less deeply cordate, rarely slightly narrowed 'and blunt 

 or sub-cuneate, 8- or even 5- to 7-nerved (the minor nerves being small); lateral nerves 3 to 

 4 pairs, shghtly prominent below ; intermediate nerves transverse to the former, nearly straight 

 reticulations m.nute ; lower surface glabrous, puberulous, or even pubescent ; upper surface 

 glabrous, often puberulous on the midrib and nerves ; length of blade 4 to 7 in • petioles 

 1 -5 m. to 2-5 m. ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, -3 to -5 in. long. Receptacles pedunculate,' _» 

 usually solitary, globular, rarely sub-pyriform, not umbonate at the apex, but with rather 

 broad umbilicus, smooth or puberulous (tomentose in var. dasyphylla); basal bracts 3 small" 

 spreading, ovate-triangular ; when ripe greenish-yellow and from -6 in. to 1 in across' 

 peduncles slender, glabrous, from -5 to 1 in. long ; interior of receptacle between the flowers 

 densely hispid. Male flowers, occupying the upper part of the receptacle with the galls 

 sub-sessile or stipitate; the perianth of five linear-lanceolate pieces; stamens 2 or 3, elongate' 

 sub-sagittate at the base. Gall-flowers with perianth as in the males ; the achene globular' 

 smooth ; the style short, termi n al, or sub-terminal ; stigma dilated. Fertile female flowers 

 pedicellate ; the perianth like that of the males ; achene elongated, ovoid ; the style terminal, 

 nearly as long as the achene ; stigma bifid. 



From the lower slopes of the Eastern Himalaya, through the hill ranges of Assam, 

 the Khasi and Chittagong Hills, Burmdi, to the Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago, at 

 elevations of from 2,000 to 5,000 " 



As might be expected in a species with such a wide geographical distribution 



, there 



some diversity of form in this species. The only forms that seem, however, worthy of 

 separation as varieties are the following 



Var. 1. dasyphylla. Leaves more or less adpressed-pubescent on the under surface ; 



receptacles and peduncles completely covered with tawny tomentum. 

 Pogonotrophe Ceyloniea and dasyphylla, Miq., Thwaites, C. P. 233. This 



variety occurs in Ceylon to the exclusion of the glabrous forms. 

 Var. 2. tomentosa. Under surface of leaves tomentose ; receptacles tomentose or 



pubescent ; peduncles 1 in. long. Malaya. Not common 



X ar. 3. Assamica. Shrubby ; leaves very broad, puberulous, and rather thick 





texture ; receptacles in pairs, with peduncles nearly 15 in. long, stout 









