NEOMOIIPHE. 



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Outer ranges of the Himalayas, from the Indus to Bhotan (b\it rare in the Western 

 Himalaya); Assam and Khasi Hills ; Chittagong and Burmese Hills— at elevations of from 

 1,000 to 5,000 ft. 



The males of this are to be found perfect only in young receptacles in which the gall 

 flowers are young. In receptacles from the gall flowers of which the Blastophaga has 

 escaped, no trace even of the perianth of a male flower is to be found. This due to the fact 

 that, in cutting their way out of the receptacle, the fully developed male Blastophagas cut 

 through the male flowers which, as well as the scales, occlude the ostiole. 



Miquel's species F. regia is made up partly of this and partly of F. pomifcra. Wall., as 

 I have satisfied myself by examination of his type specimens of F. regia. This species is 

 closely allied to variegata, Bl. 



Plate 211. — F. Roxburghii, Wall. 1, matnre receptacle; 2, apex of the same; 3, vertical 



section of the same — of natural size; 4, male flower; 5, an anther removed from male ilov 

 6, gall flower ; 7, fertile female flower : enlarged. 



Feontispikce to this Volume.— Base of the stem of a living tree in the Royal Bot 



Garden, Calcutta, showing the crowded receptacles.— Photographed by Dr. D. D. Cwiningh 



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197. Ficus vaeiegata, Bl. Bijd. 459; Miq. Fl. lad. Bat. i. pt. 2. 320; A 



Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 295.— F. subracemosa, Bl. Bijd. 469; Miq. Fl. In 

 Bat. I.e. 820 ; Choix de Plantes de Buitenzorg t. 13.— F. racemifera, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. iii. 560 ; Wight Icon 639.— Covellia racemifera, Miq. Lond. Journ. 

 Bot. vii. 465 ; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 325.— F. glomerata, Hort. Buitenzorg 

 (not of Roxb.)— F. subopaca, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 320— F. ccrlfoa, 

 Bl. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 4th ser. iii. 333. t. 14.— F. ceriflua, Jungh. Java i. 

 439.— F. chlorocarpa, Benth. FL Hong-Kong 330 ; Miq. in Ann. Mus. LugtL 

 Bat* iii. 296 ; Maxim, in Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. xi. ZW.-Sycmnorus 

 eapemis and gummiflua, Miq. PL Jungh. M.-Caprifcus Amboinensis, Rumph. 

 Herb. Anib. 145. t. 93. 



A spreadin 



► tree 20 to 30 ft. high, with pale brown bark ; the young shoots pubescent 



Leaves thinly coriaceous, petiolate, broadly ovate to ovate elliptic, 



or giaorous Leaves ^7 , denticulate ; base rounded, emarginate, or 



acuminate ; edge. enUre £«£*, «~ j^ , ^ . t . 



cordate 5-nerved, (*J^ minute; under surface in young leaves 



or glab 



intermediate nerves transverse; reticulations 



in t"te T;:^ the midr b and nerves, in adnlt leaves glabrous ; upper surface 

 pnberulons especially on the mono , ovate . acunlinate) glabrous, from 



glabrous ; length 4 to 7 m. ; petioles 1 to 2 n , long , ^ rf abortiv(J 



•5 to -75 in. long. Eeceptacles pedunculate, in fascicles trom ^ 



Weheslon the trun. and larger branch. ^££*^ A w ^ ^ „d 

 sometimes with a short constriction a tb base. When „p , ^ 



dots, and about -1 in. ^^ - »j£ ^ Tea, the mouth of the recede. 



ly deciduous and leave 



with the gall flower 



broadly ovate, with short filaments which 



7 e an a T;: or4 broad, loose, inflated pieces; anthers 2, 

 the perianth of 3 or 4 Droaa, iuu & , lt n n ii flowers with 



filaments which unite below into a common ^J^Hut is 



oaaly ovate, witn suuit man^*— " rtTlw olnno<* the voun£ pistn, out, i 



_ gamopbyllous, tubular, 4- to 5-toothed perianth which envelopes toy^ P^ _ ^ 

 much shorter than the mature ovary ; the ovary ovo , , Qn separate 



stigma lar ff e, funnel-shaped, with a very wide mouth. Fertile 



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