ETJSYCE. 



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smaller 



2 of which are as long as the stamens and 2 much shorter. Gall flowers 



and on shorter pedicels than the males; the perianth of 4 distinct pieces- the achene 



globular ; style terminal ; stigma slightly dilated. Fertile female flowers not known 



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Beecari (Herb. Becc. P. P. No. 937) 



Plate J98.-Leafy branch of F. Odoardi, King. 1, receptacle; 2, apex of the same; 

 3, stipules— all of natural size; 4, male flower ; 5, gall flower: enlarged. 



184. Ficus leucoptera, Miq. PL Jungh. 52 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pL 2. 205 ; Ann. 



Mus. Lugd. Bat iii. 270, 290. 



Young branches minutely adpressed-hispid, ultimately glabrous. Leaves elliptic 

 narrowed to either end, thickly membranous ; upper surface scabrid from the presence of 

 minute, stiff, broad-based hairs which disappear in old leaves and leave the upper surface 

 nearly glabrous except on the midrib and nerves which are always minutely adpressed-hispid ; 

 lower surface pale, with very distinct reticulations, covered everywhere with soft, short, 

 white hairs, except the midrib and nerves which are adpressed fulvous-sericeous ; apex acute ; 

 base narrowed or rounded, 3- to 5-nerved, biglandular ; edges entire; primary lateral nerves 

 about 3 pairs, prominent, especially below; length of blade 5 to 7 in.; petioles 1*5 in. 

 to 2*3 in. long, glabrous or nearty so; stipules *5in. long, fulvous-sericeous cxtiTiiallj ; young 

 receptacles (ripe are unknown) axillary, solitary, obovoid-globose, the apical scales forming 



a small umbilicus ; villous or pubescent, not ridged ; basal bracts 3, spreading, pubescent 

 peduncle pubescent, '2 to *4 in. long. Male and gall flowers not seen. Fertile female 

 flowers pedicellate, with perianth of 4 pieces ; ovary ovate-oblong ; style lateral ; stigma 

 cylindric ; interior of receptacle with a few hairs. 



Java, 3,000 to 4,000 ft., — Junghuhn ; Borneo, — Beecari (P. B. 962). 



The specimens of this from Java in the Herbaria at Utrecht and Leiden are poor. 

 Beccari's Bornean specimens are excellent, and from one of them the foregoing description 

 has been drawn up. The species is closely allied to F. fulva, Rcinw. 



Plate 199.— Branch of F. leucoptera, Miq., with young receptacles— of natural size ; 

 2, lateral view of receptacle; 3, basal view to show the three basal bracts; 4, a single basal 

 bract, detached; 1, stipule (JStos. I to ± are twice the natural size)) 5, fertile female flower: 

 much enlarged. 



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1S5. Ficus pyriformis, Hook, and Am. Voyage Beechey. 216; Miq. in Loud. Journ. 



Bot. vii. 437. tab. 6. fig. A; in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 281, 294; Benth. 

 Fl. Hong-Kong 328.— F. Millettii, Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 438 ; 

 Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. xi. 336.— .F. Abelii, Miq. Ann. 31ns. 

 Lugd. Bat. iii. 281, 295.— F. subpyriformis, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat 



229 294 • Kurz. For. Flora Brit. Burmah ii. 456.— F. IMaysmima^ 

 Wall. Cat. 4553.— F. ischnopoda, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii, 229, 294; 

 Kurz For. Flora Brit. Burmah ii. 456. 



A shrub. The young parts pubescent ; leaves from oblong-lanceolate to narrowly 



lanceolate ; the apex obtusely acuminate; the edges entire and slightly revolute when dry; taw 

 acute, 3-nerved ; main primary nerves 5 to 10 pairs ; the reticulations minute and rather 

 distinct on the lower surface, all of which is glabrous, pubescent, or sparsely hispid ; upper 



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