EUSYCE. 



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Plate 189. — F. hirla, Vahl. var. Rozburghii. 1, twig (reduced in size); 2, an ovoid 

 receptacle ; 3, vertical section of another — of natural size ; 4, nr.ale flower; -">, «j:all flower fr<>m 

 ovoid receptacle — enlarged ; 6, globular receptacle from another plant ; 7, vertical section of the 

 same — of natural size ; 8, fertile female flower from the globular receptacle : enlarged. 



174. Ficus dumosa, nov. spec. 



A shrub 3 to 9 ft. high. Leaves long-petiolate, membranous, from ovate-elliptic, acumi- 

 nate (rarely sinuate), to palmate with from 3 to 5 deep acuminate lobes; edges of all the 

 forms irregularly dentate; the apices of the lobes cuspidate; base cordate or rounded, some- 

 times sub-auriculate, 5- to 7-nerved ; upper surface scabrid, papillose, each papilla bearing a stiff 

 hair ' the nerves tomentose-hispid ; under surface more sparsely hispid, hirsute on the nervtv 

 lateral primary nerves 5 to 6 pairs; reticulations distinct; length of blade 5 to 9 in.; 

 petioles slender, hispid, from 2 to 4-5 in. long; stipules lanceolate, hispid at first, but sub- 

 sequently glabrous, about '8 in. long. Receptacles axillary, sessile, in pairs, deprei d globose, 



the umbilicus small, few-bracted; sparsely hispid when young; scarlet to lake-red in colour 



and smooth when ripe, and from '5 to 1 in. across; basal bracts 3, minute, ovate, spreading 

 Male flowers in the receptacles with the gall flowers, and near the mouth only ; the perianth o 

 4 broad, distinct pieces; stamens 2 perfect, or 1 perfect and a rudimentary pistil. Gall 

 flowers pedicellate or sub-sessile; the perianth of 5 lanceolate free pieces ; ovary gl ..hose, 

 smooth ; style short, lateral ; stigma inf undibuliforro. Fertile female flowers sub-sessile or 

 pedicellate ; perianth as in the gall flowers ; achene obliquely ovoid, slightly viscid, minutely 

 tuberculate'; the style elongate, lateral; stigma pyramidal. 



user's Peak, Mount Dempe, and other hills in Eastern Sumatra, from 2,000 to 



f 



K 



6 000 ft — Mr. H. O. Forbes (Herb. No. 229). 



This is closely allied to F. alba, Reinw., but it is well distinct, differing from typical alba 



by its larger receptacles; and longer petiolate, thinner leaves which are sparsely h,sp,d on botl 

 surfaces and not tomentose below. The occasional occurrence of a rudimentary pi til connect, 

 this with the section Palwomorphe, the members of which it does not, however, in any other 

 way resemble. 



Plate 190 -F. dumosa, King. 1 & 2, branches with immature receptacle ; 3, branch with 



mature receptacles ; 4, stipules ; 5 & 6, apex and base of an immature receptacle-.* ./ natural 

 size ; 7, ovate-elongate, sinuate leaf-mW in size; 8, diandrous male flower ; 9, mole flower 

 with 1 stamen and a rudimentary pistil; 10, gall flower; 11, fertile female flower: all 



enlarged. 



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Ficus chrvsocarpa, Reinw. in Blume's Bijd. 475 ; Miq. Fl Lid. Bat i. ft 2 



u PP . 173, 427 ; Ann. Mus. Lvgd. Bat iii. 270, 291.— F. wato, Miq 



302 



Ann Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 271, m<-CoveUia aurata, Aliq. FL Jnd J3at 



Supp. 175, 433.-.F. densiserra, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Supp. 426 -F. arguta, 



Wall. Cat. 4489. 



A tree, 10 to 30 ft. high. 1 he voung branches hoi. ow and like the l«^Ml 

 ptacles! more or less covered with *4^<*£^£?~^? x 



membranous, petiolate, elliptic, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceol 



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lobed, narrowed to the 



