EUSYCE. 



137 



all of natural size ; 5, male flower ; 6, gall flower— unopened ; 7, ovary of gall flower; 8, perianth 

 of fertile female flower; 9, achene (young) of fertile female flower : enlarged. 





157. 



Ficus lanata, Bl. Bijd. 441 ; Mia. Fl. Ind. Bat ii. pt. 2. 317; Miq. in Ann. 

 Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 294. 



A scandent shrub. The young branches, petioles, and under surface of the leaves softly 

 fulvous-villose. Leaves coriaceous, rather long-petiolate, lanceolate, rarely ovate-lanceolate, 



acuminate, with entire edges which are revolute towards the rounded, emarginate, or rarely 

 slightly cordate, 3 nerved base ; lateral primary nerves 3 or 4 pairs, prominent below, depressed 

 bove ; intermediate nerves transverse ; lower surface with numerous small, dark tubercles and 



a 



the midrib and larger nerves 



densely covered with long, soft, fulvous hairs ; upper surface sub-rugose, glabrous, except 



which are tuberculate and minutely, but deciduously, hispid; 

 length of blade 2*5 to 4 in. ; petioles *6 to 1*2 in. long ; deciduously villose, scabrid; stipules 

 ovate-lanceolate, glabrous internally, villous externally, about *5 in. long, very deciduous. 

 Receptacles pedunculate, in pairs or fascicles from bracteolate, axillary tubercles; depressed- 

 globular, verrucose, and occasionally with a few subulate bracts scattered along their sides, 



red with white spots, about *2 in. across; 



basal bracts none ; when 



glabrous ; 



pedicels glabrous, from *1 to 



reeurva. Bl. 



ripe orange 



25 in. 



long. 



Male 



i 



gall, and fertile 



female flowers as in 



Java, climbing on trunks of trees at elevations of from 2,500 to 5,000 ft. 

 Allied to F. villosa, BL, but differing in its proportionately longer petioles and shorter 



This and F. villosa, BL, differ from 



leaves, and in its glabrous, smaller receptacles. 



F. reeurva in externals only, the flowers of both being the same in structure as those of 



F. reeurva, BL Both are, I believe, mere varieties of that species, and I keep them distinct 



only as a matter of convenience. 



Plate 171.— A: branch of F. lanata, Blume, with mature receptacles. 



B : branch of a more 



shaggy form. C : leaf and receptacles of form with ovate-lanceolate leaves. 



stipules 



all 



of na tural size ; 

 enlarged. 



2, perianth 



of male flower ; 3, anthers of the same; 4, fertile female flower: 





158. 



Ficus villosa, Bl. Bijd. 441 ; Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 451 ; Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. i. pt. 2. 317; tab. 21B; Ann. Mvs. Lugd. Bat. iii. 

 Miq. Choix de Plantes de Buitenz. t. 



294. 



F. dives, 



12. 



"j?. hirsuta, Wall. 



Miq. 



Fl. Ind. Bat. 



i. pt. 



2. 



tab. 21A.— F. obtecta, Wall. Cat. 4505. 



? F. barbata, Wall. Cat. 4576. 



dent shrub. The young branches 



? 



ptacles,. peduncles, petioles 



surface of the leaves fulvous-villos 



Leaves coriaceous, petiolate, oblong 



lanceolate, acuminate 



ith entire 



rved 



dg 



and 



lanceolate, acuminate, witn entire, recurveu cugco, «,«« *^~v 

 cordate, 3- to 5-nerved base ; lateral primary nerves about 5 or 



ded, emarginate, or 



under 



ovate- 

 ightly 



pairs, prominent below, 



a r p ressed' above ^intermediate nerves transverse ; lower surface densely fulvous-villose ; upper 



surface sub- rugose or smooth 



i 



pt th 



midrib and nerves which 



minutely hirsute 



length 5 to 7 



m. 



y 



petioles '5 to 1 in., 



villous ; stipules, 2 from base of each leaf, larg 



broadly oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, from '75 to 175 in. long., caducous. Receptacles shortly 



pedunculate, in fas 



from short 



1 lary 



tubercles, ovoid, umbonate, villous, without 



