166 



NEOMORPHE. 



Leaves ovate, oval, or oblong, about twice as long as broad; the edges 



entire. 



Eeceptacles pedunculate, leaves membranous 20 2. F glomerata. 



Receptacles almost sessile, leaves coriaceous 203. F. Henric ' 



Leaves lanceolate, three or four times as long as broad. 



Leaves inequilateral, their apices suddenly acuminate. 



Eeceptacles about 1 inch in diameter ; smooth 204 F Cla k ' 



Eeceptacles '35 inch in diameter, verrucose, scabrid . . . 205. F. Aruem'is 



Leaves equilateral, gradually narrowed to the apex 



Leaves coriaceous 



203. F. Henrici. 



Leaves membranous ; receptacles smooth, sub-globular • 



the apex not depressed ' 2 06. F. acidula. 



Eeceptacles verrucose ; the apex much depressed .... 207. F. lanceolata 





Scandent. 



193. Ficus macrocarpa, Wight MSS.—Pogonotrophe macrocarpa, Miq., Wight's Icon 



1965. 



A scandent shrub. The young branches puberulous, but ultimately glabrous. Leaves 

 membranous, long-petiolate, broadly ovate, sometimes inequilateral; the apex shortly 

 acuminate; edges entire; base rounded or very slightly cordate, 3- to 5 -nerved ; primary 

 lateral nerves about 3 pairs and, like the minute reticulations, rather prominent* under 

 surface pubescent, sub glabrous ; upper surface glabrous ; length of blade about 5 



m. ; 

 in. 



petioles 2 to 2*5 in. long; stipules lanceolate, puberulous, or glabrous, about -35 

 long. Receptacles in fascicles from the naked stem far below the leaves, globose 

 pubescent, or nearly glabrous; when ripe spotted and from 1 in. to {fide Wight) 2± in. 

 across; basal bracts absent; peduncles about -35 in. long, with several minor bracts at 

 their base. Male and gall flowers not found. Fertile female flowers sessile or pedicellate; 

 the perianth of 6 free pieces ; ovary sub-ovoid ; style sub-terminal, as long as the ovary, 

 hairy, straight, or curved; stigma bilobed. 



Nilgiri Hills, Southern India, at 5,000 ft. 



Mr. Gamble's specimens of this species {Herb. Prop. Gamble 11500) are the only 

 examples that I have seen. They agree well with Wight's figure. The species evidently 

 approaches F. guttata, Wight, and is possibly only a form of it. There are a few 



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external differences, and the female flowers differ somewhat from those of the only 

 receptacle of F. guttata, Wight which I have been able to get, and these females are in 

 such a young state that it is only from the absence of male florets in the receptacle with 

 them that I conclude that they are fertile. Until completer material of the two species 

 is obtained it is impossible to determine their relation to each other. 



Miquel (Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 278) considered Wight's Icon 1965 as referable 

 to F. . vaganSy Roxb. . But the receptacles of vag/ms are described by Roxburgh as 

 axillary and of the size of a nutmeg; whereas those of this plant are never axillary, 



but always in fascicles on the stem far below .the leaf region, and often (fide Wight) 

 as large as an orange.. 









