EUSYCE. 



139 







1 



all of natural size; 4, unexpanded fertile female flower; 5, achene (young) from a sub-sessile 

 flower ; 6, achene (young) from a pedicellate flower. 



Erect Shrubs or Trees. 



160. Ficus diveesifolia, BL Bijd. 456 ; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 



268, 288; Miq. (sub Syncecia) in Bond. Journ. Bot. vii. 470. tab. 9. fig. B. ; 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 328 ; Miq. PL Jungh. 67. — F. spathulata, Miq. Lond. 

 Journ. Bot. vii. 441 (excl. syn. F. retusa, Herb. Madr. Wall. Cat. 4530). 

 F. deltoidea, Jack Malay. Miscell. vii. 71. — F. ovoidea, Jack Malay. Miscell. 

 vii. 71 ; Wall. Cat. 4526. — F. sideroxylifolia, Griff. NotulaB PI. Dicot iv. 

 t. 551. fig. 2. — F. lutescens, Desf. H. P. ed. iii. 413. — Erythrogyne frutotceni, 

 Visian. apud Gaspar. Rich. 86; Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 453. 



A glabrous shrub or small tree, often epiphytal. The leaves coriaceous or sub-coriace« ais 

 petiolate to nearly sessile, minutely tuberculate beneath, for the most part deltoid or cuncate 

 obovate, much narrowed and glandular at the base ; the apex broad, blunt, sometimes oblique 

 rounded or truncate, occasionally unequally emarginate to bifid; the midrib bifurcat* 



once or 



to 



g 



oftener, with a dark-coloured gland in one or more of the lower bifurcation t the 

 edges entire; or'(but not often on the same plant) elongate, narrowly obovate, oblanceolatc 

 oblong-lanceolate, or sub-rhomboidal ; the apex blunt, rounded, or acute, with pinnate venation, 

 and with glands in the axils of 2 or 3 of the lower lateral nerves ; length of blade 1 in. 



var. Kunstleri) 5 in. ; breadth from '75 in. to (in var. Kunstleri) 4 in. ; petioles 

 from *2 in.' to '4 in. long (1*5 in. to 3 in. long in var. Kunstleri)] stipules linear-lanceolate, 

 convolute, from -3 in. to «6 in. long. Receptacles axillary, solitary, or in pairs ; pedunculate, 

 depressed-globose to ovoid or pyriform, strongly unbonate at the apex, of a dull yellow or 

 reddish colour and smooth when ripe, from '2 in. to -35 in. across; basal bracts 3, short, 

 broad spreading, puberulous; peduncle from -2 in. to 1 in. long. Male flowers occupying the 

 upper' half of the same receptacles as the galls, pedicellate; the perianth of 4 obovate, rather 

 ™«~ pieces; the stamens 2, lying face to face, longer than the perianth. Gall flowei 

 sessile or pedicellate ; the perianth of 3 elongated and linear-lanceolate, or short, ovate, rather 

 tleshv Pieces ; the ovary globular and smooth or angular, rough, and crustaceous m texture ; 

 the style short sub-terminal; the stigma wide, tubular. Fertile female flowers occupying 

 separate receptacles; the ripe achene twice as large as the gall achene, elongated-remform 

 shining ; the style lateral, elongate ; the stigma with 2 long, narrow arms ; penanth of several 

 small, fleshy ovate-lanceolate, fleshy, free pieces. 



Malayan Peninsula and islands. 



A widely-distributed and therefore a variable species ; usually epiphytal, but otten growing 

 on the ground The majority of the individuals have leaves of the obovate-cuneate type, with 

 Z^S^ ; and it is not often that one is met with having also ^f^^^ 

 leaves wifh pinnate nervation. The occurrence of such dimorphous inUividual, was no 

 doubt, the oLsion of Blmne's specific u^.^folia Blume 's name was no pubhsh 



_ _, while Jack's --.«^- = 



Blume's name for the species in preference to either ot J acK s, oecau^e j 



, ,. i „ Q „* fhp nknt and covers the two forms which Jack raided to 



recognises the dimorphous ness ol the plant, auu tuvwo 



until 182 



Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. Yol. I. 



