132 



EtTSYCE. 



294. 



F. urnigera, Miq. in Zoll. Syst. Verz. 92 f 98; Fl. Ind. Bat. 



pt. 2. 318. t. 19. 



i. 



A scan dent shrub, often rooting from the stem 



Th 



3 young branches deciduously 

 villose or pubescent, or sub-scabrid from minute adpressed deciduous hairs. Leaves sub- 

 coriaceous, shortly petiolate, ovate elliptic, oblong- elliptic, or lanceolate 

 narrowed to the bluntish or shortly acun 



inate 



ed : base broad 



ded, sub- truncate or 



more or less 

 apex; edges entire, sometimes slightly 



ghtly cordate 



3 



to 5 -nerved 



gmate 



etim 



arrowed or 



nerves 



being minute 



lateral 



nerves 2 to 3 pairs 



intermediate nerves and reticulations very distinct; the whole of the lower surfac 



> 



especially the midrib, nerves, and reticulations) either covered 

 hairs, or sparsely pilose, 



with short, stiff 



(but 



brownish 



from the prominent reticulat 



or entirely glabrous, but (even when glabrous) slightly rou^h 



upper 



face sub-scabrid from th 



short, roug 



h points, or smooth and 



P 



of a few 



hich are minutely 



glabrous except on the depressed midrib and 



sparsely ad pressed -pi 



or entirely glab 



nerves, 



some forms of var. ribesoides); length of blade 2*5 in. to 5 in. 



long, 



or 



stout, adpressed pubescent, 

 ceolate, glabrescent, about *2 



or 



glabro 



pe 



2 



y where ( 



in 



in. to *5 in. 



sub-scabrid 



in. 



stipules broadly ovate 

 (in the barren shoots *4 in, long). Eecepfcacles 



m 



th 



shortly pedunculate, in clusters of 4 to 10, on short, many-bracted, villose, tube 



p 



ils of the leaves, or singl 



or in pairs and not 



tubercl 



constricted towards the base; the apical umbilicus sometimes 



depressed-globul 



pert and always 



ounded 



by a smooth annulus ; pubescent or glabrescent, becoming glabrous ; when ripe yellowisl 



red, 



large, 



about 



sometimes spotted with white, about 



ovate ; peduncle 



wh 



upper half of the 



2 in. to *3 in. across; basal bracts 3, rather 



present, glabrous 



15 



in. 



long, 



ptacles of which the lower half 



Male flowers occupying 



is 



flowers, diand 



which are shorter than the anthers 



4 lanceolate pieces 



pied by gall 

 the anthers large, oblong, sub-sessile, placed face to face, the connective 



distinct pieces, 

 Gall flowers, shortly pedicellate; the perianth of 



s ty 1 e. 



forming a thick vertical ridge along the back; perianth of 4 broad, 



the 



achene obliquely ovoid, smooth, with short lateral 



Perfect female flowers with perianth of 4 distinct, lanceolate pieces ; the ach 



oblong; the style nearly term 

 Malayan Peninsul 



sub- obo void 



7 



short, flat, hyaline 



| Archipel 

 correspondingly variable in its character. 



j 



up to 1,500 



Widely distributed 



> 



and 



Two forms appear worthy of separation as varieties 





Var. ribesoides (species Wallich). Leaves lanceolat 



7 



quite glabrous and shining; receptacles larger than in 



sparsely pilose, glabrescent 



across), in smaller fascicl 

 exceeding -15 in. length 

 Perak. 



the typ 



3 in. 



'7 



and sometimes pedunculate ; the peduncles not 

 This variety is common at Singapore and in 



Var. urkigera. 



F. adnascens, Wall. Cat. No. 4578B falls h 



Recept 



umbilical 



flattened and depressed at the apex 



annulus large; basal bract 



? 



stngose beneath 



F. urnigera, Miq 



large 



7 



leaves glabrescent, 



with the 



sub- 



Miq 



7 



his final revision of the 



reduces to it his 



genus Ficus, keeps up F. strig 



y 



Bl 



7 



as 



at Leide 



own species urnigera. But the type specimens of Blume 



species 

 stria 



i 



appear to me to differ in no essential particular from the more glabrescent 







