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EUSYCE. 



hispid-pilose on the lower surface; length of blade 5 or 6 in.; petioles 1 to 1-5 in., 

 slender, glabrous; stipules lanceolate, *4 in. long. Receptacles sessile, solitary, axillary, 



straight hairs, *25 in. across; basal bracts 



globose, recurved, and covered with soft, long, 

 3, minute. 



Sarawak, Borneo, at an 



elevation of about 3,000 ft.,— Sig. Beccari (Herb. Becc. 



P. B. 1696). 



This is a weak, straggling species, related in the form and venation of its leaves to 



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F. cuspidata, Reinw 



sinuata 



Plate 196. — F. macilenta, King. Branch with mature receptacles 

 ptacle; 2, base of the same; 3, stipules: all of natural size. 



1, apex of a 



182. 



Ficus comitis, nov. spec 





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Young branches glabrous; leaves membranous, elliptic; the apex shortly and narrowly 

 cuspidate ; the base broad, 3-nerved ; primary lateral nerves about 8 pairs, diverging from 

 the thick, strong midrib at a wide angle, prominent on both surfaces but specially so on 

 the lower which is thickly dotted with minute white tubercles and glabrous except on the 

 midrib and primary nerves which are densely and softly puberulous ; reticulations minute 

 very distinct; upper surface glabrous, thickly dotted with tubercles like those on the 



*75 in. to 

 1-75 in.; stipules lanceolate, '6 in. long. Receptacles pedunculate, axillary, in pairs 



sub-globose, or sub-pyriform ; the umbilicus rather prominent; adpressed-puberulous 

 slightly verrucose, about 25 in. across ; basal bracts none ; pedicel *3 in. long, bearing 3 

 minute bracteoles below its middle. 



New Guinea, — IP Albertis {Herb. Beccari, P. Papuance, No. 531). 



This has been collected only by Count D'Albertis. Its affinities are with F. 



chartacea, "Wall. 



under surface but slightly larger ; length of blade 4 to 6 in. ; petiole from 



Plate 197. — Branch of F. comitis, 

 stipule; 2 & 3, receptacles: enlarged. 



Kin ". 



with mature receptacles — of natural size. 



183. Ficus Odoardi, nov. spec 



A tree. 



The young shoots covered with brown tomentum ; the leaves oblong-elliptic 



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. slightly inequilateral, gradually narrowed upwards to the shortly acuminate apex; the 



emarginate, 3-nerved ; primary lateral 



edges entire ; the base broad, rounded, very slightly 



nerves 5 pairs, prominent on the lower surface which is pretty uniformly hispid- pilose ; 



surface sub-scabrid, with some 



scattered stiff hairs, especially on the midrib and 



the midrib minutely tomentose ; length of blade from 6 to 9 in. ; petiole 



upper 



nerves 



about *3 in., tomentose; stipules ovate- acuminate, tomentose externally, glabrous internally, 



•6 in. long. Receptacles pedunculate, solitary or in pairs, axillary, sub-globose, with conical 



umbonate apex and broad concave base 



deciduously fulvous-pubescent or tomentose; the umbilicus minute, closed by stiff yellow 

 hairs and surrounded at some distance by a wavy annulus ; basal bracts none; diameter about 



the receptacle, with deciduous tomentum, *3 in. long. 



the sides rough, minutely tuberculate, and 



1*2 in. ; peduncle stout, clothed, like 



Male flowers large 



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numerous, pedicellate, occupying 



the upper half of the receptacles 



with the gall flowers ; anthers 2, long, linear-apiculate ; the perianth of 4 distinct pieces 



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