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NEOUOEPHE. 



waved, sub-entire; primary lateral nerves 5 or 6 pairs and, like the midrib, sparsely adpressed- 

 puberulous on both surfaces; the lower surface with many minute tubercles, dull; the 

 upper shining, with a very few adpressed hairs ; length of blade 'So in. ; stipules lanceolate, 

 acuminate, pilose externally 



? 



4 in. long. Receptacles on much shortened, tuberculate, 



leafless branches from the stem ; long-pedunculate, globose 



? 



glabrous, verrucose, scabrid, 



about 35 in. across, with a few scattered scales on the sides ; umbilical scales large, numerous, 

 triangular, recurved ; basal bracts none ; pedicels slender, glabrous, with 1 or 2 minute 

 bracteoles. Male and gall flowers not seen. Fertile female flowers sub-sessile; the perianth 

 gamophyllous, with 5 lanceolate teeth, hyaline, closely enveloping the rather smooth, 

 obliquely-ovoid, compressed achene ; style lateral, longer than the ovary; stigma clavate. 



The Island of Aru,— Sig, Beccari (Herb. Becc, without number). 



Plate 



222. 



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Aruensis 



1 



King 



1 



j 



apex 



of leafy branch ; 2, shortened branch, 



bearing mature receptacles 



natural size ; 3, receptacle ; 4, umbilical bract from same 



, stipules ; 



are enlarged. 



fertile female flower, 7; achene of fertile female flower. 



NoS. 



3 to 7 





206. 



Frcus acidula, King. 



A tree. All parts glabrous except the petioles, the primary lateral 



't 



the midribs, and 



the under surfaces of the leaves, which are puberul 



Leaves petiolate, membranous, narrowlv 



oblong-lanceolate; the apex acute ; edges entire ; base slightly narrowed, blunt, 3-nerved; lateral 

 primary nerves 10 to 12 pairs, not prominent ; lower surface pale in colour, minutely reticulate, 

 with many white papillae, puberulous ; upper surface glabrous, except the midrib and primary 



petioles varying in length from *6 to 1*5 in.; stipules 



nerves; length of blade 2*5 to 4 in.; 



lanceolate, scarious, -4 in. long. Receptacles on rather short, leafless, branchlets from the larger 

 branches, sub-sessile, sub-globose, mottled, glabrous, 11 in. across; the apex a little flattened, 

 and the umbilicus slightly depressed; the base constricted into a short stalk at the union of 

 which with the very short peduncle proper 



are 3 minute triangular bracts; ped 



prop 



1 in. long 



Male flowers in a zone under the bracts of the mouth, diand 



the anthers elongate, apiculate, with thick connective; perianth of 3 loose, concave, inflated 



pieces 

 the 



Gall flowers pedicellate, with gamophyllous 3- to 4-cleft perianth which 



ower half of the smooth, sub-globose, ovary ; style elongated 



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lateral. Fert 



femal 



iptacle as the two preceding 



flowers in the same reci 



4- toothed perianth completely enveloping the minutely-tubercul 



lateral, elongate; the stigma clavate. 



Sarawak, Borneo, — Sig, Beccari (Herb. Beccari, No. 2832). 



the gamophyllous, sharply 



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obovoid, ache 



tyl 



Signor Beccari, who alone has collected this species, describes the receptacles 

 character so unusual in a fig that I have named the species in accordance with it 



as 



acid 

 This 



externally resembles F, botryocarpa, Miq., but the leaves of this have much longer petioles 



and a different venation 



Pl 



223 



F, acidula, King 



1 



> 



apex of leafy branch ; 2, a receptacle-bearing branch 



with two nearly mature receptacles; 3, mature receptacle; 4, apex of the same; 5, stipules 

 all of natural size; 6, male flower, unexpanded; 7, the anthers removed from a male flower 

 8, gall flower; 9, fertile female flower; 10, achene and style of fertile female flower 

 enlarged. 



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all 





