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EUSYCE. 



169. Ficus toxicaria, Linn, Mant. 305; Bl. Bijd. 477; Miq. in Lond. Journ. 



Bot. vii. 286; PL Jungh. 52; Fl. Ind. Bat i. pt. 2. 293. t. 20B- 



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Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 269, 290. — F. padana, Burm. Fl. Ind. 226. 

 F. toxica, Thunbg. Fie. No. 27. — F. elegans, Hassk. Cat. Hort. Bo°-or. 

 76; PI. Jav. Rar. 200; Miq. Fi. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 294. 



A small spreading tree, with the young branches, stipules, receptacles, and under surfaces 

 of leaves more or less covered with white or tawny, flocculent tomentum. Leaves larcre 



membranous, from broadly ovate-elliptic to elliptic-rotund, narrowed above and with 



a short, sharp terminal apiculus; the base more or less deeply cordate and 5- to 7 

 nerved; the margins minutely serrate-dentate; length of blade 7 to 12 in.; primary 

 lateral nerves 4 to 6 pairs ; upper surfaces of leaves with scattered, soft, short hairs ; 

 under surfaces densely covered with short, white or yellowish tomentum; reticulations 

 prominent ; petioles from 4 to 6 in. long, flocculent when young, but ultimately 

 nearly glabrous; stipules elongate, ovate-lanceolate, convolute, densely sericeous outside 



about 15 in. long, early caducous. Receptacles short-pedunculate, axillary, in pairs 

 (often solitary by abortion), depressed-globose, umbilicate, densely covered with deciduous 



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flocculent, yellowish or white tomentum; when ripe blackish purple and from 1 to 2 in. 

 in diameter; peduncle short, thick, hairy like the petioles and with 3 or 4 broadly ovate-acute, 

 imbricated bracts near ics base. Male flowers few near the mouth of the receptacles 

 containing gall flowers, sessile; the perianth of 4 or 5 concave pieces 2 of which are 

 sometimes narrower than the others; anthers 2, elongate, on short filaments. Gall flowers 

 pedicellate ; the perianth of 5 lanceolate pieces ; ovary smooth, ovoid ; style short, sub- 

 terminal ; style infundibuliform. Fertile female flowers pedicellate ; the achene ovoid, 

 minutely tuberculate ; style lateral, elongate ; stigma cylindrical, constricted. 



Java and Sumatra, at elevations of from 2,000 to 4,000 ft. 



Rather variable as to foliage, the leaves of young shoots being often very large, 

 palmately 5- to 7-nerved, and deeply divided into 5 to 7 blunt lobes. The colour of the 

 tomentum varies from white to cinnamon-brown. Miquel (I.e. tab. XXB) gives excellent 



figures (which I have copied) of the two kinds of female flowers (insect-attacked, i.e. gall, 

 and fertile), without, however, understanding the difference between them. 



Plate 184. — F. toxicaria, Linn. 1, branch with immature receptacles; 2, branch with 

 mature receptacles; 3 & 4, apex and base of mature receptacle ; 5, stipules — of natural 

 size ; 6, male flower ; 7 & 8, gall flowers ; 9, fertile female flower : all enlarged. 



170. Ficus palmata, Forsh. Fl. JEgypt-Arab. 179; Vahl. Symbol, i. 84. t. 24 ; 



Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 290 ; Lond. Journ. Bot. vii 225. 

 F. carkoidesj Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 529 ; Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 

 224. — F. pseudo-sgcomoruSj Decaisne in Fl. Sinaic. ; Miq. in Lond. 

 Journ. Bot. vii. 227; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 1155. — F. virgata, Roxb. 

 non Reinw.) Fl. Ind. iii. 530 ; Wight's Icon 649; Miq. in Lond. Journ. 



Bot. vii. 228; Fie. Afric. 130; Brandis For. Flora 419; Wall. Cat. 



4507 A and B ?, 4492A, B, C, D. 



A bush or small tree, never epiphytal. The young branches tomentose or pubescent, 

 often becoming glabrous. Leaves petiolate, membranous, rotund-ovate, or more often 



