

138 



EUSYCE. 



basal bracts; when ripe 



yellow and about '3 



o 



minutely bracteolate 



Male, gall 



in. across ; peduncles from '1 to 



j 



d fertile femal 



•o in. 



4 lanceolate, elon° 

 narrowly ellipsoid 



3 pie< 

 style 



i 



anthers narrow, elongate, with 



flowers with perianth of 



t filaments 



short, thick, sub terminal ; achene of fertil 

 ellipsoid, style lateral, stigmas usually agglutinated to form an umbonate di 



gall 



female flow 



iry 



ers 



Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago, up to elevations of 2,000 ft 

 This plant comes very near to F. lanata, Bl., and both are in n 



Bl 

 J7i 



F. hirsute Wall 



quol 



iy opinion forms of 

 by Miquel a3 a synonym of F. villosa, BL (No, 290 



Lugd. Bat. 294), but I can find no tr 



of a F. hirsuta in Wall. Cat 



Th 



l Ann. 

 name 



F. hirsuta, Wall, is also given by the same author as a synonym under F. villosa, Bl. (Fl Ind 



Bat i. pt. 2. 317), and a fi 



o 



5 



of it under tab. 21 A, but no Wallichian numbe 



quo 



ted 



The figure agrees with the figure of F. 



llosa, Bl. B. (on th 



same plate), with th 



ption that the receptacles are pedunculate, whereas in the figure of villosa they 



Pla 



172 



F. 



illosa 



Bl 



A 



branch 



owing leaves, the deciduous stipules at th 

 bases of the leaves, and young receptacles. 1, under surface of half a leaf (the louder hair 



remo 



ed to show the 



ulations) 



2 



> 



twig showing fascicles of 



youn 



cr 



ptacles 



3, a fascicle of receptacles, nearly mature ; 4, side view of a receptacle ; 5, the 3 bracts on 



the peduncle ; 6, apex of 



iptacle; 7, stipules from the apex of a branch— all of natural 



size; 8, fertile female flower— nnexpanded ; 10, the same expanded; 11, male flower with 



2 anthers; 9, gall flow 



11 enlarged 



159. 



Ficus crininervia, Miq. Fl. Lid. Bat. Sappl. 175, 432.— F. htnigera, Wall. Cat 



4577. 



F. gross iner vis, Miq. MS 3. in Herb. Lond. and Utr. 



A 



dent shrub 



> 



rooting from the stem and branch 



d nerves on the lower 



face of the leaves 



d 



The young branches, petiol 



s 



with long, 



deciduous h 



tawny 



Leaves petiolate, coriaceous, ovate-elliptic or ovate-obl 



the 



silky , 

 apex 



acuminate or shortly cuspidate ; edges entire and slightly revolute ; base deeply cordate 



or 



sub-sagittate, palmately 5- to 7-nerved ; lateral primary 

 nerves parallel, slightly curved, rather prominent; the 



•ves 5 or 6 pairs ; interraediat 

 der surface tesselate-reticulate 



th 



midribs and 



f adult le 



with 



ften with fine silky hairs ; upper surface covered 



petioles 



very minute, deciduous scales, otherwise glabrous; length of blade 5 to 10 in.; 



at 



\ 



stout, deciduously hirsute 



f y 



i 



from 



5 to 12 



in. 



long; 



stipules especially 



prominent on the b 

 glabrous, 



branchlets, 2 to each leaf, linear-lanceolate, flaccid, almost 



> 



7 to 1*3 in. long. 



Receptacles shortly pedunculate, solitary 



j 



pa 



llarv 



obovate-globose, contracted towards the base and without basal bracts ; apex slightly umbonate, 

 deciduously hairy, becoming smooth, about *3 or *4 in. across ; peduncles *2 to *3 in 

 long, bracteate at the base. Male flowers unknown Fertile female flowers sub-sessile, or on 



g 



th 



pedicels; the perianth of 4 distinct pieces, which completely envelope all parts 



o 



f the young pistil 



pt the stigma ; young achene obliquely ovoid 



? 



the sty 



short 



j 



b- terminal; stigma large, lanceolate; ripe achene, male and gall flowers unknown 



Assam, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Malayan Peninsula, and Archipelago; (probably al 



Burniah) ; Mount Arfak in new G 



Beccari (P. P. 951) 



This apparently does not fruit freely, for the majority of the specimens met 

 collections consist of leaves only. 



wi 



in 



Plate 173. — F. crininervia. Miq. The point of a young shoot with leaves and stipules 



B 



adult leaf and mature 



pt 



les. 1 



i 



apex cf recentacle ; 2, base of ditto ; 3, stipules 



