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3-nerved but not cordate base ; the apex acute ; the edges serrate ; upper surface rouo-h 

 from a few adpressed-hispid hairs ; the midrib and nerves shortly hispid ; lower surface 

 pubescent, often shortly tomentose ; primary lateral nerves 3 or 4 pairs; length of blade 4 to 7 

 in. ; stipules lanceolate, rufous-tomentose, about # 6 in. long. Receptacles sessile or vei 

 shortly pedunculate, in pairs, axillary, ovoid when young, nearly globular when ripe and 

 in. across; at all ages densely covered with short, rather soft yellowish hair ; apical scales few 

 and small ; basal bracts 3, broadly ovate ; the interior of the receptacle between the 

 insertion of the flowers densely covered with hispid yellow hair. Male flowers with 2 stamens • 

 the perianth of 4 broadly ovate, hyaline, glabrous pieces. Gall flowers with a perianth 

 of 4 narrowly oblanceolate pieces, each of which is tipped by a tuft of long hairs; the 



ovary ovoid, smooth ; style short, lateral. Fertile female flowers with perianth like the 

 galls ; the achene ellipsoid, sub-rhomboid, wrinkled, and boldly tuberculate ; style long, 

 lateral, hairy ; stigma cylindric. 



In Burmah; in the low country in the Malayan Peninsula; in Penang, Java, and 

 Sumatra. 



This species resembles the forms of hirta with small unlobed leaves, and I was at one time 

 inclined to consider it as only a variety of that species. But this is a larger tree than hirta ; 

 the leaves of this have no tendency to be lobed ; the pubescence of this is softer, and the 

 receptacles are more uniform in shape than in hirta. Moreover the flowers, both male and 

 female, differ much from those of hirta. 



I have reason to believe that the following specimens of this species were distributed 

 by me as F. hirta, Vahl., viz. King's Collector Nos. 92, 133, 148, 3738, 4328, and 5834; 



II. 0. Forbes, No. 2967. 



Plate 191. — F. chrysocarpa, Reinw. A & B: leaves with receptacles. 1, apex of 



receptacle; 2, base of the same; 3, stipules — of natural size ; 4, male flower; 5, gall flower; 



fertile female flower; 7 & 8, achenes removed from fertile female flowers : all enlarged ; 



Q — leaf of the form named F. arguta by Wallich. 



176. FlCUS SCHEFFERIANA, HOV. Spec 



A small tree. The young parts at first sparsely hirsute, afterwards nearly glabrous. 

 Leaves crowded near the extremities of the branches, rather long-petiolate, chartaceous, 

 slightly inequilateral, elliptic, with acuminate apex and narrowed, 3-nerved, base; or 3- 

 lobed (one of the lateral lobes sometimes absent), the lobes blunt or acuminate, and the ba^e 



cuneate and 5-nerved (2 of the nerves minute) ; edges entire or remotely sinuate or sub- 

 serrate, glabrous, except the midrib and nerves which on the upper surface are adpressed- 

 pubescent ; lateral primary nerves 3 to 4 pairs ; reticulations rather distinct ; length of blade 

 5 to 6 in. ; petioles slender, from 1*25 to 2 in. long ; stipules ovate-acute, membranous, 

 glabrous, -6 to *75 in. long. Receptacles crowded, sessile, in pairs, axillary, depressed- 

 globose, with small, few-scaled umbilicus; sparsely hirsute when young ; smooth when ripe and 

 of a dull lake colour, about '5 in. across, with 3 small, broad, ovate-acuminate, wavy basal 



bracts. Male flowers few and only near the mouth of the receptacle, sessile ; the perianth 

 of 4 broadly-ovate, imbricate pieces; stamens 2, lying face to face, their filaments stout, 

 adnate. Gall flowers sessile or pedicellate; the perianth of 5 distinct, oblanceolate pieces; 

 the ovary globose, smooth ; style lateral, very short ; stigma dilated. Fertile female flowers 

 not knowm. 



