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Plate 163. — a: Ficus obtusa, Hassk. typical form, b: form with acute leaves. 1, apex 



of receptacle; 2, lateral view of receptacle; 3, stipules— all of natural size; 4, female flower 

 un expanded; 5 & 6, the same expanded ; 7, umbonatedisc formed by union of the stigmas of 

 the flowers of one receptacle, fios. 1 to 6 are enlarged. 



152. Ficus allutacea, BL Bijd. 457; Miq. FL Ltd. Bat. i. pt. 2. 319, 



A scandent shrub, with puberulous or glabrescent, minutely -war ted, branchlets. Leaves 

 coriaceous, petiolate, elliptic, ovate-elliptic, or elliptic-oblong ; apex shortly cuspidate or acute ; 

 edo-es quite entire, often revolute ; base rounded or narrowed, very slightly biauriculate, 

 3-nerved * lateral primary nerves 5 or 6 pairs prominent below as are the midrib and 

 minute reticulations; under surface pale-coloured, minutely tesselate, squamulose (in var. 

 Teysmanniam also puberulous); upper surface smooth, shining ; both surfaces without hairs, 

 but the under surface sub-scabrid from the reticulations; length of blade 4 to 7 in.; 

 petioles thick, *8 to 1*2 in. long, scurfy when dry; stipules 2 to each leaf, ovatc-lanceolat , 

 puberulous, *4 in. long. Receptacles long-pedunculate, in fascicles of ') to from iiort 

 tubercles on the stem below the leaves, or in pairs and axillary; globose, with a slightly 

 prominent umbilicus; smooth, reddish when ripe, and about *3 to o in. across; basal bracts 

 3, united; peduncles slender, glabrous, nearly 1 in. long. Female flowers occupying the whole 

 interior of the receptacle; their stigmas often united to form a compact hollow ball; tho 

 perianth of 3 or 4 linear-lanceolate, distinct pieces; the achene obliquely elliptic, minutely 

 papillose, its margins pale ; style terminal, pointed ; stigma cylindric. Male and gall flowers 



not seen. 



Var. Teysmanniana. Branches verrucose; leaves pubescent on the lower surface, 



especially on the reticulations ; receptacles axillary.— f 7 . Teysmanniana, Miq. 

 I.e. 319. 



On Mount Salak in Java, and in Sumatra,— %*raeww; Perak,inthe Malayan P 



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Collector, No. 7226. Not common. Cultivated in the Botanical Garden, Buitenaorg. 

 All the receptacles which I have examined, whether from wild or cultivated plants, 

 contain only fertile female flowers. It is therefore quite possible that this is not itself a 



species, but merely the female of something else. 



Plate 164 -A : apex of branch of F. allutacea, Miq., with leaves and stipules. B : lower 

 part of the same branch with nearly mature receptacles. C: branch of var. Teymamuam, 

 with mature receptacles 



i, 



pes of a receptacle ; 2, base of the same : 3, stipules-*/* of natural size ; 4, , 



female flower ; 5, female flower with ripe achene : enlarged 



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Ficus kecukva, BL Bijd. 457 ; Mig. FL Ind, Bat. , pt 2. 317 ; Suppl. 7o 43 

 Ann. Mas. Lugd. Bat. iii. 279, 294. -F. viU ,pes ,. M.q. W. J"»™ 

 Rot. vii. 451.-F. Spanogheana, Miq. I.e. and in Fl. Ind. Hat i. 



" „ .', .', w „i| n„4. A.e.o-2 ■ Mia in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat 



o Qir.—jP, ribesoidcs, Wall. L*t. Vi£i , luiq. m -n-u o 



fii. 293.-* adnascens , Wall Cat. ^8B.^^ ^> ^ 

 in Lend. Jourm Bot. vii. 78.-* etngosa Bl B,,d «1 , % W 



2. 31 S; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. in. ~1», 



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