144 



EUSYCB. 



brownish-red pubescence. Male flowers only in the ellipsoid receptacles, and associated with 

 gall flowers; the perianth of 4 ovate leaves; stamens 2, elongate, without rudiment of pistil. 

 Gall flowers on hairy pedicels ; the perianth of 4 or 5 free pieces ; achene sub-o-lobular 



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are 



smooth. Fertile female flowers in the globular receptacles from which male flowers 

 quite absent, on hairy pedicels ; perianth of 4 or 5 pieces ; achene ovate, rugose ; the style 

 hairy, and stigma elongate ; all the flowers surrounded by the long white hairs of the interior 

 of the receptacle, 



Malacca, Penang, Perak, and other parts of the Malayan Peninsula, — King's Collector. 



Nos. 5524 and 5859. 



The curious olive green colour of the adult leaves of this when dry is very character- 

 istic. A form of this, the leaves of which dry of a yellowish-green and have rather more 

 numerous lateral nerves than the type, was elevated by Miquel to the rank of a species under 

 the name F. Sumatrana. 



Plate ISO. — A : branch with ellipsoid receptacles containing male and gall flowers. 

 B: branch with sub globular receptacles containing perfect female flowers (F. Sumatrana, 



Miq.) — of natural she. 1, male flower with 2 stamens and 4 perianth leaves; 2, gall 



flower (from the same ellipsoid receptacle) ; 3, fertile female flower from sub-globular 

 receptacle : enlarged. 



166. Ficus Moseleyana, nov. spec 



clustered 



k tree ? The young shoots covered with minute reddish-brown adpressed hairs. Lea 



the extremities of the branches, thinly coriaceous, elliptic or obovate-ellipt 



the apex blunt; the edges entire, narrowed from above the middle to the slightly cordate 5- to 

 7-nerved base; primary lateral nerves about 5 pairs; both surfaces glabrous, the lower with 

 distinct reticulations and numerous minute black dots: length of blade 4'5 to 7 



in. ; 



petioles -75 in. to 1 in., puberulous at first, ultimately glabrous; stipules ovate-lanceolate 

 convolute, puberulous externally, -4 in. long. Receptacles pedunculate, axillary 



pair 



globose, with rather prominent apical umbilicus, slightly constricted at the base into a short 

 stalk at the junction of which with the peduncle proper are 3 small, broadly-ovate bracts; 



prop 



pubescent when young but glabrous when ripe, about *5 in. across; pedui 

 pubescent, *75 in. long. 



Little Kei Island. 



Collected during the voyage of the Chalhnger by Mr. Moseley, September 1874. 

 Plate 181. — Branch of F. Moseleyana, King, with mature receptacles— of ndural size. 

 1 , lateral view of a receptacle ; 2, stipule ; 3, a basal tract. i\to. 1 to 3 are about twice natural 



Size. 



167. Ficus macropoda, Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 442; Miq. in Ann. Mas. 



Lugd. Bat. hi. 294. 





A tree ? the young shoots pubescent ; leaves thickly membranous, petiolate, sometimes 

 inequilateral, obovate-oblong; the apex rather blunt; edges entire and slightly re volute ; the 

 base emarginate, 3 to 5-nerved ; lateral primary nerves 3 to 5 pairs, thick and rather prominent 

 below ; the whole of the under surface densely and shortly pubescent ; upper surface minutely 



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