1886.] G. King — New Species of Ficus from New Guinea. 395 



united, are usually free. The periautli sometimes hardly covers the 

 stamen or stamens ; in other cases it is large, inflated, and completely 

 envelopes the stamen. In some species the pieces of the perianth are 

 thin and colourless, and not unfrequently hyaline ; in others they are of 

 a red or dark-brown colour and opaque. In qaite half the Indo-Malayan 

 species there is only a single stamen ; in very many there are only two ; 

 while in only a few are there so many as three. In shape the anthers 

 are for the most part ovate or elliptic, although some are very broad and 

 almost rotund ; they are always 2-celled and have sutural dehiscence. 

 Some are sessile or nearly so, and in very few is the filament long. 

 The attachment of the anther to the filament is innate in most species ; in 

 a few, however, it is adnate. In species with two stamens the filaments 

 are often united for the whole or part of their length, leaving the anthers, 

 however, free. 



" Pseudo-hermaphrodite flowers occur in only a few species. Such 

 flowers have a perianth like the male flowers, but along with the single 

 stamen there is present in them a pistil with completely formed style 

 and ovary. I have, however, never found one of these ovaries to contain 

 a seed, but I have not unfrequently found one containing a larva, 



" N'euter flowers are found only in the few species forming the 

 section Synoecia. They are long-pedicillate, have a 3-leaved perianth, and 

 are without any trace of either anther or pistil. 



" Fertile female flowers have a perianth not very different from that 

 of the males, but consisting in many cases of more pieces, and being 

 more often gamophyllous. In the case where the pieces of the perianth 

 are free, the individual pieces are sometimes rather easily detached, and 

 are very apt to be confounded with the bracteoles of the receptacles in 

 species where the latter exist. The perianth is usually much smaller 

 than the mature achene, and covers the latter very incompletely or not 

 all. In some cases where the perianth is gamophylloas it forms a small 

 cup, which surrounds only the base of the ovary or its pedicel. It was 

 in some such cases, where the perianth is hyaline, that Miquel was led 

 to believe that none existed ; and hence his statement about the perianth 

 being absent in Govellia. The pistil may be sessile, but it is very often 

 pedicillate ; the ovary is more or less ovoid or obovoid, with a tendency 

 to be emarginate on the side at which the style it attached. It contains 

 a single pendulous ovule. The style is filiform, and is in most cases 

 distinctly lateral or sub-terminal : it rarely springs from the apex of the 

 ovary. In length the style usually greatly exceeds the ovary : it is 

 usually smooth, but in a few species it is hairy. The stigma, which is 

 papillose, varies in shape, being cylindric, clavate, peltate, or inf aiidibuli- 

 form ; and in a few cases it is flat. In many species it is obliquely 

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