150 



EUSYCE. 



Burmah ii. 419 

 Icon 670. 



F. hirsuta (not of Schott) 



j 



Roxb. Fl.Ind. iif. 528; Wight 



A shrub or small tree. The young branches hollow 

 ptacles pubescent-hispid, often rufescent or tawny. 



d th 



leaves 



stipules 



d 



variable in shape, from 5 to 12 



Ion 



Leaves membranous, petiolate, very 

 oblong-lanceolate, ovate- elliptic to ovate-rotund* 



apices acute or acuminate, often (especially in the leaves of young shoots) with 3 to 5 



or blunt lubes ; ed 



rate: bases rounded 



date 



3 



to 7-nerved 



lateral 



nerves 



2 to 7 pairs; upper surface scabrous-hispid, lower densely hispid-hirsute, pubescent o 

 tomentose, especially on the nerves ; petioles from *75 to 4 in. long, hirsute ; stipules ovate 

 lanceolate, acuminate, strigose or hirsute at first, afterwards puberulous, from *5 to '75 in. lorn 



deciduous. Receptacles shortly pedunculate 



pairs from the 



of the leaves 



or of the scars of fallen leaves, globular or ovoid, more or less umbonate especially wher 

 young; from *3 to 1 in. across; at all times densely covered with long, stiff, often rufescent 



bristly hairs ; apical 



* 



of them very large ; basal bracts ovate-acumin 



dpressed-pubescent ; perianth of all the flowers of 4 linear lanceolate, smooth 



flow 



Wl 



th 2 



stamens 



y 



ally 3, and sometimes 



pie 



Mai 



nly 1 



Gall ovary globular or 



d, smooth; the style short, lateral; stigma infundibuliform. Fertile female flowers 



pedicellate or sessile; th 



minutely tuberculate, ellipsoid, emarginate at the side to 



which is attached the long filiform style ; stigma cylindr 



In tl 



forests at the base of the eastern half of the 



Malaya Peninsula and Archipelago, Ch 



Himalaya, Assam, Burmah, the 



at elevations from 2,000 to 5,000 ft 



A widely-distributed and very variable plant. The form described by Vahl is that found 



in Ch 



d the Malayan countries. In the North-In d 



of the species, this form 



almost entirely supplanted by the broad -leaved, large-fruited, densely-rufescent form issued as 

 Wall. Cat. 4491 under the manuscript name F. triloba. Ham. Hamilton's name is a most 

 unfortunate one, as trees are quite common on which not a single trilobed leaf can be found. 

 I think it better therefore to retain for this Northern variety Miquel's name of Roxburghii, 



which is separated from typical hirta, Vahl., as follows : 



Typical hirta, Vahl Leaves obov ate -oblong, oblanceolate, or lyrate; receptacles 



about the size of a large pea or small cherry. 

 Var. Roxburghii. Leaves ovate to ovate-rotund, often deeply lobed, from 6 to 



12 in. long; 



receptacles from *5 to 1 in. across* — F. Roxburghii, Miq. 



The two forms meet in the Kh 

 ety Roxburghii from farther south. 

 The rec< 



Hill 



? 



but 



h 



never 



specimen of the 



ptacl 



some individual plants 



b-globular, with, however, a tendency 



to be umbonate at the apex ; 

 umbonate towards the apex 

 The majority of the globul 

 flowers without any trace 



other individuals the receptacl 



ovoid and are so much 



to be in some cases almost obpyriform in gen 



tl 



ptacles which I have examined contain fertile female 



of m 



mal 



flowers are rather numerous in 



In the 

 the us 



d 



ptacles 



on 



tl 



other hand, perfect 



al situation beneath the scales near the mouth 



of the receptacl 



1 in some cases the males are so numerous as to fill the upper half 



f the receptacle, the remaining space being occupied by gall flower 



Plate 188 



F. hirta. Vahl. I & 2, leaves and receptacles ; 3, stipul 



rf natural 



4, diand 



mal 



flower 



5 



j 



onand 



male 



6 & 7, gall flowers — all ft 



the same 



tptacle: enlarged 



s 



