SOME 



NE¥ SPECIES OF FICUS 



* 



FROM NEW GUINEA. 



BY 



GEORGE KING, M.B., LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S .. 



Superintendent, Royal Botanic Garden, 



CALCUTTA. 



Urostigma. 



Ficus hesperidiiformis, King in Journ. As. Sue. Bengal lv. pt ii. 401 



A tree; glabrous in all parts except the stipules, "which are minutely tomentose 

 externally; young branches hollow, thick, marked with annular scars. Leaves coriaceous 

 alternate, broadly elliptic-oblong, gradually tapering towards the apex, which ends in a 

 short rather blunt point; the base rounded, edges entire; lateral primary nerves very 

 numerous (40 or 50 pairs), running nearly at right angles from the thick prominent 



midrib and anastomosing about *1 in. from the edge ; secondary nerves and reticulations 

 minute but distinct; the petiole from J to \ as long as the blade; stipules very 

 large, coloured, convolute, minutely tomentose on the outer, smooth on the inner 

 surface; length of blade and of stipules 6 to 9 in.; petioles 2 '5 in. to 4*5 in. Receptacles 

 large, axillary, solitary, pedunculate, globose, smooth, apparently without basal bracts, 

 about 1 -5 in. in diam., the walls very thick. Male flowers numerous, pedicellate ; anther 

 single, sub-sessile, ovoid, its walls thick and cartilaginous, the dehiscence lateral; perianth 

 gamophyllous with 3 oblong blunt segments. Gall-flowers with hard, crustaceous, 3-sided 

 ovary, thick short pedicel, and no perianth other than the long, linear, subulate scales 

 which spring from the walls of the receptacle between the flowers. Fertile female flowers 



not seen. 



New Guinea,— H. 0. Forbes, No. 737. 



The material in my possession is not very abundant, and I have not had the 

 advantage of seeing Mr. Forbes's field notes. I presume this is a tree. The leaves and 



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stipules at once recall to mind those of F. elastka. But the leaves of this are larger, and 



the stipules are tomentose externally. The receptacles are quite different from those of 



