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collected by De Fretes, I have seen no specimens of this, and none of the receptacl 

 his collecting contain perfect female flowers. 



The vernacular name of this is moessoe. Count Solms Laubach (Botanische Zeitung, 

 vol. 44. p. 562) mentions specimens which are preserved under the name moessoe in the 

 Herbarium at Buitenzorg ; but, as he describes the perianth of the gall flowers of these 

 as fimbriated in a remarkable manner unknown in any named species of Ftcvs, I conclude 

 that the moessoe of Buitenzorg and that collected by De Fretes in Amboina must be 

 different plants. My descriptions and figures are founded upon De Fretes's original 

 specimens and they show no such peculiarity of the perianth as Count Solms Laubach 

 describes. This Buitenzorg moessoe is probably a new species. 



Plate 217.— F. Sycomoroides, Miq. Leafy twig. 1, 2, 3, receptacles seen from the apex, 

 base, and side; 4, stipules— of natural size ; 5, unexpanded male flower; 6, stamens from mal< 

 flower; 7, gall flower: enlarged. 



202. Ficus glomerata, Rozb. Corom. PL ii. No. 123; Willd. Spec. iv. 1148; R»zb 



Fl. Ind. iii. 558; Wiyht Icon 667; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 297 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 224 ; Kurz For. Flora Brit. Burm. ii. 458 ; Brandts For 



Flora 422. tab. 49 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 178; Wall. Cat. 4511 A and B. 

 Covellia glomerata, Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 465; Dalz. and Gibs. 

 Fl. Bombay, 243. — F. Chittagonga, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 

 228, 294.— .F. racemosa, Wall, (non Roxb.) Cat. 4549.— F. mollis, Miq. 

 (non Vahl.) in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 283, 296. — Covellia mollis, 

 Miq. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 466 ; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 326. 



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A tree. The young shoots glabrous or pubescent, slightly scabrid. Leaves petiolate, 

 membranous, alternate; from ovate-oblong, obovate-oblong, to oblong-lanceolate; the apex 

 gradually tapering to a bluntish point; edges entire; base blunt, rarely acute, 3-nerved; 

 primary lateral nerves 4 to 6 pairs; lower surface glabrous in the type (pubescent in 

 two varieties), with numerous minute tubercles; upper surface glabrous (softly pubescent 

 in var. mollis); length of blade 4 to 5 in. (in var. elortgata to 7 in.); petioles from *8 to 



1*3 in. (rarely 2 in.), glabrous (pubescent in two varieties); stipules rather persistent, 



ovate-lanceolate, scarious, pubescent externally, *6 to *8 in. long. Receptacles pedunculate, 

 borne on short, leafless, tubercled, warted, scariously bracteolate branches often only 

 a few inches long which issue from the stem and larger branches; rarely (in var. 

 ieucocarpa) axillary ; much contracted at the base when young ; pyriform, sub-globular, or 

 subturbinate, smooth or pubescent and of a reddish colour when ripe, and about 1*25 



in. across ; the umbilicus depressed ; basal bracts 3, ovate, triangular. Male flowers rather 



numerous near the mouth of the receptacles, sessile; the perianth of 3 or 4 inflated 

 membranous pieces which completely envelope the anthers ; anthers 2, elongated, ovate, the 

 filaments united. Gall flowers pedicellate ; the perianth gamophyllous, irregularly toothed, 

 covering only the base of the ovoid, rough ovary ; style lateral, elongate ; stigma clavate. 

 Fertile female flowers almost sessile; the perianth gamophyllous, with 4 or 5 long, 

 lanceolate, teeth which completely envelope the small, minutely-tuberculate achene; style 



much elongate, sub-terminal; stigma clavate. All three kinds of flowers occur in the 

 same receptacle; the males forming a zone near the mouth, the sessile females forming 



