

FICUS FROM NEW GUINEA. 



gular 



- 



Gall-flowers sessile; the 



ovary prismat 



absent. Male and fertile female flowers unknow 



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conical, smooth ; style an stigm 



NewG 



) 



H. 



Forbes, No. 85 



From its general 



receptacles, however, in the 

 gall-flowers can be distinguished 



have no doubt that 

 nly two specimens 



Urott 



hav 



near nervosa 



seen are diseased, and 



The 



the 



I have named this after the Rev. W. Gr. Lawes 



s 



ettled 

 collect: 



the south-eastern coast of New G 



> 



of the d voted band of 



ho have 



e 



much 



missionaries 



the way of 



Plate 228A. — F. LawesiL K 



> 



^^ 



11 of natural 



Fruiting-brancl 



1, stipules ; 2, apex of i eptac 



Ficus 



> 



King in Jour n. As. Soc. Bengal lv. pt. ii. 40: 



glabrous tree. The leaves on long petioles, thinly coriaceous, alternate, entii UroaHv 

 ovate-elliptic, tapering much to either end ; the base acute, 3-nerved ; the apex suddenh md 

 shortly triangular-acuminate ; lateral primary nerves 8 to 10 pairs, nearly at right angles to 

 the midrib and, like it, strongly marked on the under surface, which is minutely tuberculate- 



tesselate 



j 



length of blade 5 to 6*5 



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breadth 2*75 in. to 



-- j " 



3*25 in.; petiole 1> in.; tipul 



lanceolate sub- convolute, *6 in. long. Receptacles axillary, in pairs, on long slender peduncl 

 •5 in. in diam., depressed globular with a slight stalk-like constriction at the lyase, smooth 

 basal bracts 3, minute ; peduncles *75 in. long. Male flowers sessile ; the single anther broadly 

 ovate, sub-sessile ; the perianth of 3 obovate pieces. Gall-flowers sub-sessile or pedicellate ; the 

 ovary smooth, with thick crustaceous walls ; the style short, lateral ; the stigma infundi lml i form ; 

 perianth of 4 or 5 oblong pieces which closely invest the ovary. Female flowers like the gall* 

 but with a shorter, more globose, ovary and a longer style : all three kinds in the same 



ptaele. 



New Guinea, 

 The leaves of this a good deal resemble those of F. 



H. 0. Forbes, No. 568 



> 



Mull., but the structure of 



the flowers is different. The affinities of this in the section Urostigma are with 



Plate 228B 



F. casearioides. Kin a* 



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3, fruiting-branch ; 4, base and apex of receptee! 



>f natural size ; 5, male flower ; 6, gall-flower ; 7, fertile female achene • enlarged, 



Synoecia. 



Ficus Scratchleyana, King in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal lv. pt. ii. 404 



Scandent 



> 



glabrous 



the receptacles which 



minutely sub-tomentose 



Leaves 



petiolate, coriaceous, entire, narrowly elliptic- oblong 



base minutely cordate, 3-nerved 



oase mmuieiy coruate, u-ueivcu, m*^ « r ~- 



primary lateral nerves 5 or 6 pairs, prominent beneath 



ffradually tapering to either end ; the 

 the apex with a short blunt point ; under surface tesselate : 



the midrib ; length of blad 



y 



width 1*75 in. to 2*25 



prominent ueuwtu, <** ™ « — / 



petioles 1 in. to 1 5 in. long ; stipules snbulate 



1 



1 



about # 5 in. long 



Keceptacles axillary, solitary, pedunculate 



tomentose, with a prominent umbilicus, about 



1 in. 



convolute 



void-globose, minutely sub- 

 Fertile 



diam. ; basal bracts 3, small 



ovoid-elliptic ; the styl 



female flowers pedicellate ; the perianth of 4 linear pxeces ; ovary ™™, , 

 lateral ; stigma large, bicrnral when young, truncate when adnlt 



bicrural when young 



