EW 



1 base, and 



oblong, tapering gradually to the slightly unequal, bluntish or sub-a, ite 3 nerve* 



to the sharply, but shortly acuminate, apex; the edges entire or ob*u rely and 12Z 



sub-serrate ; primary lateral nerves about 7 pairs, minutely adpressed-1, pid oa botl 



the remainder of the lower surface of the leaf glabrous, of the upper surface minute! 



adpressed hispid ; length of blade 5 or 6 in.; petiole about -5 in. long, adpreesed -hispid* 



stipules, in pairs, lanceolate, glabrous except a few stiff hairs near the base externally 5 i, 



long. Keceptacles on short woody racemes from the stem and larger branches, peduneulu , in 



I 



pairs, when young broadly pyriform with concave apex and much depressed umbilicus, 

 smooth, -75 in. or upwards in diam. ; basal bracts 8, broadly triangular, united into a c p 

 peduncle thick, about -25 in. long. Female flowers (when youn ) narrowly ovoid elliptic; the 

 style short, thick, terminal, with a dilated discoid tubular stigma; the perianth gamoplivllm* 

 half as long as the ovary and closely applied to it. Ripe female, male, and gall-now* 



unkn own 



New Guinea, — H. 0. Forbes, No. 100. 



A species near F. brachiata, King, but not so glabrous, and with its receptee! - b rne <»n 

 much shorter branches than in that species. Named after the \lw. J. Chalmers, the intrepid 

 missionary explorer of New Guinea. 



Plate 230 A.— F. Chalmersii, King. 1, leaf twig; 2, fruiting-branch ; 3, epl .do- i U 

 view ; 4, apex of receptacle ; 5, stipules — of natural size; (5, young male flower: an /<;./. 



Ficus Bernaysii, King in Joum. As, Soc. Bengal lv. pt. ii. 10< 



A tree ? the young shoots fulvous-tomentose. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate 



' 



membranous, inequilateral, obovate-elliptic, tapering gradually from above the middle t 

 the bluntish, very unequal, obscurely 5-nerved base, and rather sudd nly to the bor 

 acuminate apex ; the edges minutely serrate ; the whole of the under surfa e shortly fulvou 

 tomentose ; primary lateral nerves 7 pairs; upper surface shortly adpress< l-hispid, tomentose 

 on the midrib and nerves; length of blade about 7 in. ; petioles under -5 in. ; stipules tomen 

 tose externally, glabrous internally, convolute, -5 in. long. Receptacles on long i duncles, in 

 short crowded panicles, from the stem and larger branches, puberulous, sub-globose, about 

 •25 in. in diam., contracted at the very base into a short pseudo-stalk at the jum 

 of which with the peduncle proper are 3 small triangular basal bracts; peduncle pro}) r 

 nearly 5 in. long. Young female flowers with a flattish, ovoid, smooth ovar the 

 nearly as long as the ovary, lateral, curved, hairy; the stigma cylindric; perianth g mo 

 phyllous, very short, covering only the stalk of the ovary. Kipe female, male, and gall 



flowers unknown. 



New Guinea,— H. 0. Forbes, No. 625 



King? anTTitsTe'^ 



Named in honour of Mr. L. Bemays, of Brisbane, whose effor s fo J 10 - <° 

 of New Guinea and for the development of his own Colony of Queeasland arc so 



which, in the form and arrangement of its receptacles, resembles F «nden» 



it, km;: 



well known. 



Plate 230B.— F. Bernaysii, King. 7, 



Kin-. 7, leaf twig ; 8, cluster of young receptacles ; 9, 



base and apex of young receptacles-*/ natural me, iu, ju o 



