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a handwriting which I believe to be Roxburgh's. Were it absolutely ceitaiu that this is 

 Luducca, Roxb., that name, being the earliest published, would stand. 



Plate 166.— F. foveolata, Wall. Four twigs with leaves and mature receptacles t 

 illustrate the forms on which four species were founded. A =zfovcolata, Wall. ; B =pubigera, 

 Wall.; C = reticulata, Miq. ; D = verrucosa, Miq. 1,1,1, apex of a receptacle; 2,2,2, base of 



the same; 3,3,3, stipules;— all of natural she; 4, a male flower; 5, the same, opened to show 

 the two anthers; 6, male flower from the variety olcceformis) 7, gall flower, young; 

 8, the same, farther advanced; 9 &, 10, fertile female flowers: all enlarged. 



Plate 167. — F. foverdata, Wall. Fruiting branches of three varieties: — E: var. 1, ity- 



p<mica\ F: var. 2, impressa; G: var. 3, Thunbergii—all of natural size. Apex and base uf 



eeptacle and stipules of each variety are also shown: all of natural size. 



Plate 168.— F. foveolata, Wall. Fruiting branches of two varieties :— 11: var. 4 



a r 



lecefvrmis'j I: var. 5, maliformis: of natural size. 1, male flower in situ with recepta< alar h 

 it its base; 2, male flower showing the 2 stamens and minute perianth; 3, female flo\ 

 Xos. 1 to 3 are enlarged. *-•-.. 



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155. Ficus ramentacea, Roxb. Fl. lad. iii. 547; Kurz For. Flora Brit. Burmah ii. 



454. — Pogonotrophe rigida, Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 74; Miq. Fl. In 

 Bat. i. pt. 2. 331. — F. rigescens f Miq. Ann. Mas. Lugd. Bat. iii. 29:J. 



F. vagans, Wall, (not of Roxb.) 4562.— F. sub-rigidx, Miq. Fl. lnd. 

 Bat. Suppi. 175, 433. — ? F. leptocarpa, Steud. No mend, 636. — F. micro- 



earpa 9 Bl Bijd. 442.— F. adherens, Miq. PL Jungh. 55; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 

 pt. 2. 319. t. 22; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 2b0, 2'»4. 

 F. oligospcrma, Miq. PI. Jungh. 55 ; Fl. lnd. Bat, i. pt. 2. 319. 



A powerful epiphytic climber, often becoming an independent tree ; the ) 



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puberulous, very soon becoming glabrous. Leaves rather shortly petiolate, coriaceous, ovate 

 to ovate-elliptic ; apex acute or shortly sub-acuminate ; edges entire, waved, and sometime* 

 slightly revolute ; base cordate, emarginate, or rounded, 3- to 5-, rarely 7-nervcd [t being 

 minute); lateral primary nerves 5 or 6 pairs, prominent on the under surface; intermediate 

 nerves nearly parallel to each other; reticulations sub-areolar, minute; under surface glab- 

 rous, slightly rough from the sub-areolate reticulations ; puberulous on the midrib and nerves 

 when young ; upper surface pale when dry, glabrous; length of blade from 2-5 to 8, and 



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young shoots even 11 in. ; petioles stout, '75 in. to 13 in. long, minutely puberulous when 

 young, afterwards glabrous; stipules ovate-lanceolate, villous or pubescent externally, o in. 

 long, very deciduous. Receptacles shortly pedunculate (sessile in var. adherens), axillary, 

 pairs or solitary, occasionally in fascicles from minutely bracteate, villous tubercles in 

 axils of the leaves, or from the stem below the leaves; depressed-globular, abruptly contracted 

 at the base into a cylindrical stalk at the junction of which with the short pedicel are 

 3 small, reflexed, glabrous bracts ; slightly umbonate at the apex ; sparsely hairy when young, 

 but glabrous when ripe; orange or orange-red in colour, and from -2 in. to '5 in. across; 

 peduncle proper (below the stalk like constriction of the receptacle) only about 1 in. long. 

 Male and gall flowers with similar perianth of 3 narrow pieces; anthers 2, much elongate, 

 narrow, on short filaments; gall ovary obovoid, smooth; the style short, lateral, leriant 

 of fertile female flower of 3 pieces, united below; achene elliptic; style elongate, lateral 



stigma cylindric. 



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