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NEOMOKPHE. 



panicles from the stem ; obovoid, nearly smooth, with rather prominent umbilicus, and 3 basal 

 bracts, about 125 in. across when ripe; peduncles -5 in. or -6 in. lon*r. Male flowers 

 numerous and forming a zone near the mouth of the receptacles containing gall flowers 

 sessile, as broad as long; the perianth of 3 or 4 inflated, loose, membranous pieces, completely 

 enveloping the 2 broadly ovate, nearly sessile, anthers. Mature gall flowers not 

 Fertile female flowers shortly pedicellate ; the perianth of 5 linear pieces ; achene rhomboid 

 ovoid, narrowed to the base ; its surface dull, dark in colour, and prominently tuberculate • 

 the style sub -terminal, elongate, rather stout; the stigma cylindric. 



seen. 



Amboina and the Molucca Islands. 



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When dry, the leaves of this at once suggest F. Ryxburjhii or F. pomifera • but I h 



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seen this growing (in the Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg), and in the living state it appears 

 sufficiently distinct even in external characters, while the flowers are quite different. 



Plate 210. — Leaf and branch of F. nodosa, Teysm. and Binn. 1, part of a panicle of 

 immature receptacles; 2, mature receptacles; 3, stipules — all of natural size ; 4, unexpanded 

 male flower ; 5, the anthers of a male flower, the perianth having being removed ; 6, fertile 

 female flower ; 7, achene of a fertile female flower : all enlarged. 



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196. Ficus Roxbukghit, Wall. Cat. 4508; Miq. in Ann. Mas. Lugd. Bat. iii. 296; 



Brandts For. Flora 422 ; Kurz. For. Flora Brit. Burmah ii. 460. 

 F. macrophylla, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 556, (not of Desf) ; Wight Icon 673. 

 F. scleroptera, Griff. Ic. PI. As. t. 558. — Covellia macrophylla, Miq. 

 Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 465. — F. regia, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 



230, 297 (partly). 



A tree, from 10 to 30 ft. high, with wide-spreading head; the young branches pubescent. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, petiolate, broadly ovate to ovate-rotund, with very short, triangular, 

 apical acumen, entire or serrate- dentate edges, and more or less deeply cordate, rarely 

 rounded, 5- to 7-nerved base ; primary lateral nerves about 3 or 4 pairs, prominent on both 

 surfaces, as are the nearly parallel and almost straight intermediate nerves ; reticulations not 

 very distinct; under surface covered with short, soft pubescence; upper surface rigid, 

 glabrescent, or glabrous, except the midrib and main nerves which are sometimes deciduously 

 puberulous; length of blade from 5 in. to 15 in. ; breadth 4*5 in. to 12 in.; petioles 1 in. 

 to 4 in. long, or in young shoots as much as 8 in. long ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, pubescent, 

 •6 in. to 1 in. long. Receptacles pedunculate, from shortened leafless branches borne on 

 the larger branches or stem, turbinate or truncate-pyriform, with 8 to 12 indistinct vertical 

 ridges ; umbilicus large, and with numerous broad, tomentose scales ; base sometimes constricted 

 to a short stalk with 3 ovate to triangular, rather large, basal bracts ; when young pubescent, 

 when mature glabrescent, russet brown in colour, with a tinge of red or dull purplish, and 

 spotted; about 2 in. or more across; peduncle proper -75 in. to 1*75 in. long; pubescent. Male 

 flowers near the apex of the receptacles containing the gall flowers, sessile ; the perianth of 

 3 broad, imbricate, hyaline, inflated pieces; stamens 2, sometimes 3, and occasionally only 1 ; 

 the anthers ovate; the filaments long, thick. Gall flowers pedicellate; the perianth 

 gamophyllous below, 2- or 3-partite above, only partially covering the ovoid, smooth ovary ; 

 style sub-terminal, short; stigma dilated. Fertile female flowers sub-sessile or pedicellate; 

 the perianth like that of the gall ; achene minutely tubercular, viscid ; the style long, curved, 

 lateral, hairy ; stigma cylindric. 







