







174 



NEOMOEPHF 



a 



ayer 



est the walls of the 



ptacle, and the 



internal lay 



pedicellate gall flow 



a more 



Vak. Chitt 



Young shoots, under surfaces of the leaves, and the recent 



pubescent; the leaves ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolat 

 sub-opposite; receptacles pyriform. — F. Chit/agonga, Miq. 



ally 



Chittagong, and occasionally in Bengal. 



Var. Miquelii. Leaves as in the typical form ; the receptacles densely covered 



with white pubescence, occasionally axillary. — F. leucocarpa, Miq. MSS. 

 ?F. goolereea, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 538. 



In dry situations over the plains of India generally, rinding its western limit 



liajputana and the Salt Range in the Pan jab 



Th 



is the form on many herbarium specimens 



f 



w 



h 



h. Miquel has written the 

 m under that name (Lond 

 J own. Boz. vi. 576), that plant being, as I have endeavoured to show at p. 62, F. infectoria, 



Roxb. 



F. leucocarpa, Miq. ; but it is not the plant described by h 



Vak. mollis. Both surfaces of the leaves, at least when young, softly pubescent 



Covellia modis. Miq. 



Java, — Zollinger's Herb. No. 753. 



Var. elongata. L 



bl 



the typical form 



with acute apex about 7 in. in length ; other 



Burma, — Kurz ; Chittagong, — lister. 

 This variety 



brings 



the species glomerata so near to F. lanceolata, Ham., that the 



glabrous verrucose, ridged receptacles of the latter constitute the only distinction. 



Plate 218.— J 7 , glomerata, Roxb. A : typical form. 



1, apex of leafy branch; 2, fascicle 

 of mature receptacles — of natural size; 3, male flower, unexpanded ; 4, male flower with 

 3 of the pieces of the perianth removed ; 5, gall flower ; 6, ovary of the same removed from 



the perianth ; 



achene from fertile female flower ; 8, fertile female flower — all from the 



same receptacle and all enlarged^ B : var. Miquelii. — Branch with axillary receptacles nearly 



mature : of natural size. 



Plate 219.— F. glomerata, Roxb. var. Chitiagonga. 1, apex of leafy branch ; 2, leafless 

 branch bearing young receptacles; 3, fascicle of nearly mature receptacles; 4, vertical section 

 of a nearly mature receptacle; 5, apex of the same — all of natural size. 



203. 



Ficus Henrici, nov. spec 



A large tree. The young branches puberulous 



Leaves small, petiolate, coriaceous, oval 



lanceolate, enti 



4 to 6 pairs, 



rather distinct; upper 



the apex rather blunt ; the base rounded, 3 -nerved; primary lateral 



obscure 



lower surface slightly pale, minutely puberulous, the reticulat 



surface glabrous; length of blade 1*5 to 2 in. 



> 



petiole 



4 in. 



> 



pules 



ate-lanceolate. Receptacles on short 



i 



rather tl 



tubercular, leafl 



branche 



from the stem, sub-globular ; the apex umbonate when young ; when adult the apex flat, with the 



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