ETJSYCE. 



141 



are with F. diversifolm, Bl., of which it may really only bo an extreme form. Kurz 

 describes the ripe receptacles as yellow spotted with white. 



Plate 176.— F. oligoneura, Miq. Twigs with immature and mature receptacles and 

 with differently shaped leaves — of natural size. 



162. Ficus pandurata, Ilince in Ami. Sc. Xat 4. ser. xviii. 229; Maxim. 



Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. xi. 345. 



VI 



A low, diffuse bush. The young branches deciduously hispid-pilose, ultimately 

 glabrous. Leaves petiolate, membranous, panduriform ; the apex shortly cuspidate; the 

 base acute, 3-nerved; primary lateral nerves 5 or 6 pairs, the lower almost horizontal, 

 the upper oblique, all prominent, and, like the midrib, sparsely adpressed-hispid below ; 



the rest of the lower surface minutely tuberculate and scaberulous; the upper surface 

 glabrous; length of blade about 2 5 in. ; breadth at the broadest part 1*25 in. to i-5 in. : 

 petiole '25 in. long. Receptacles axillary, solitary, or in pairs, pedunculate, ellipsoid or 

 sub obovate, with prominent umbilical bracts; smooth when ripe, and about 2 in. across; 

 basal bracts 3, broadly ovate; peduncle -25 in. long. Fertile female flowers sessile; the 

 perianth of 3 or 4 distinct pieces; style lateral, elongate; stigma oblique. Male flowers 



not seen. 



Southern China, Whampoa, — Dr. Hanee ; near Canton, — Mr. P. Sampton, 



There are specimens of this at Kew collected and named b^ Dr. llanco. The 



species comes near to F. Formosana, Maxim. I have not seen any receptacles containing 



m 



lie or gall flowers, and neither Hance nor Maximowicz describes the males. 



Plate 177B. — Fruiting-branch of F. pandura.% Hance, with young receptacles 

 natural she. 1, young female flower; 2, young fertile achene : enlarged; 3, apex of receptacle 

 4, base of the same ; 5, stipules : of natural size. 



163. Ficus erecta, Thunbg. (non alior.) Dissert. Ficus 9, 15; Tbmbg. in Transac- 



Linn. Son. ii. 327; BanFs Kaempf. Iconcs Sel. t. 4; Sieb. Sgn. PI. 

 Oecon. $o. 173 ; Fr. and Savat. En. PI. Jap. i. 435. ii. 490 ; Itubu, Kaempf. 

 Amoen. Exot. 803.— F. putnila, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 2>3.—?F. pgrifotia 

 Burm. FL Ind. 226; Miq. Prol. 131.--.^'. Japonica, Bl. Bijd. 440 

 Sieb., Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. n. 778; Maxim, in Bull. Acad. St. 

 Petersb. xi. 328.— .F. Beccheyana, Hook, and Arn. Beechey's Vbyag* 

 271; Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 437; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat iii. 



• Benth. Fl. Hong-Kong 329 ; Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. St Petersb. 

 329.-2? Sieboidi, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 199, iii. 295; 



294 



xi. 



s 



Maxim, in Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. xi. 327. 



hrub or small tree. The young branches sub-glabrous or (in var. Beechyana) 



Leaves membranous, petiolate, broadly ovate, obovate-elliptie, sometimes 

 s7blomboidal, or (in var. Sieboidi) elongate-lanceolate ; the apices acuminate or cuneate- 



gradually narrowed from about the middle to the truncate, rounded sub- 

 sub-cordate, sometimes slightly unequal, 3- (sub 5) nerved base ; lateral 



vviee as many in var. Sieboidi) ; the lower surface mmuteh 



id pil 



cuminate 



i 



emarginate or 



primary nerves about 4 pairs 

 tuberculate, glabrous, or pubescent 



mest toment 



in var. Beccheyana), especially on 



