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EUSYCE. 



obovate-rotundate witli a more or less deeply cordate or narrowed base ; apex more or less 

 acuminate, sometimes deeply divided into 3 acute lobes ; edges irregularly dentate • length 

 of blade from 5 to 8 in.; base 3nerved; lateral primary nerves about 3 or 4 pairs', rather 

 prominent; secondary nerves transverse. (The leaves of young shoots are often very large 

 have palmate nervation, and are divided into as many as 5 to 7 lobes.) Upper surfaces 

 of leaves scabrid or sparsely hispid, especially on the nerves ; lower surface (except the nerves 

 which are nearly glabrous) densely covered with short, usually white, sometimes reddish- 

 white tomentum; petioles 15 to 3 in., pubescent or glabrous ; stipules ovate-lanceolate 

 pubescent at first, ultimately glabrous, from -3 to -5 in. long. Eeceptacles sessile, in pairs' 



xillary, depressed -globose, rarely ovoid, slightly umbonate; when young pubescent 



when ripe smooth, bright yellow in colour, and from -3 in. to -4 in. across; basal 

 bracts 3, broadly ovate, blunt. Male flowers few, and only near the mouth of the' recep- 

 tacles containing gall flowers, sessile, short, broad: the perianth of 3 broad, imbricated, 

 free pieces ; stamens 1 or 2. Gall flowers mostly pedicellate ; the perianth of 5 lanceolate 

 pieces ; the ovary ovoid, smooth ; style short, lateral ; stigma infundibuliform. Fertile female 

 flowers sessile, or shortly pedicellate ; the achene obliquely ovoid, with a very tuberculate, 

 crustaceous epicarp ; style lateral, as long as the achene ; stigma cylindric. 



Southern part of the Malayan Peninsula, and over the whole Archipelago, up to 

 elevations of 4,000 ft. Very common and variable. 



I have little doubt that a tri-lobed form of this formed the basis of the Roxburghian 

 species F. palmafa. 



Plate 186. — F. alba., Reinw. 1, fruiting-b ranch ; 2, ovate-cordate leaf; 3, ovate-lan- 

 ceolate leaf; 4, tri-lobed leaf ; 5, vertical section of receptacle— of natural size ; 6, diandrous 



m 



ile flower; 7, monandrous male flower; 8 & 9, gall flowers; 10, fertile female flower 

 // enlarged. 



172. Ficus pulva, BeUiv. in Bl. Bijd. 478; Miq. in Ann. Mas, Lug J. Bat. 



iii. 269, 290; PL Jungh. 54; Miq. Fl. Ltd. Bat i. pt 2. 296; Be 



Vriese, FL Bar. du Jard de Liede, fasie, 1. — Pogonotrophe flavidula, Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. Supp. 176, 435. — F. Beinivaratii, Link and Otto. Icon 

 rar. i. 6. tab. 31. ; Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 457. — F. sub orbicularis, 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Supp. 173, 425. — F. apiculata, Miq. Zoll. Syst. Verz- 

 92, 98; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 296; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat iii. 269, 

 290.— F. chlorocarpa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 294. 



A small umbrageous tree. The young branches covered with harsh dark brown 

 tomentum. Leaves crowded towards the apices of the branches, long-petiolate, membranous, 

 sub-rhomboid al, rotund, or obovate-rotund, rarely ovate-elliptic, sometimes sinuate or (in the 

 leaves of young plants) deeply 3- to 5-lobed ; edges minutely and remotely dentate-serrate ; 

 apex acute or very shortly apiculate ; base rounded or more or less deeply cordate, 5- to 7- 

 nerved ; upper surface scabrid, tomentose on the nerves ; lower surface everywhere covered 

 with rather harsh tawny tomentum; lateral nerves 2 to 4 pairs; length of blade from 

 4 to 8 in ; petioles 1*5 to 3*5 in. long, pubescent; stipules single, convolute, broadly ovate, 

 with a truncate base and acute apex, externally covered with deciduous yellow hairs. 

 Receptacles crowded towards the apices of the branches, sessile or very shortly pedunculate, 

 in pairs in the axils of the leaves; from ovoid to globose; apex umbilicate; densely fulvous- 



