404 G. King — New Species of Ficus from New Guinea. [No. 4, 



invest tlie ovary ; female flowers like the galls but with a shorter more 

 globose ovary and a longer style : all three kinds in the same receptacle. 

 New Guinea, H. O. Forbes, No. 568. 



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

 Mull., but the structure of the flowers is different. The affinities of this 

 in the section Urostigma are with nervosa. 



Stnoecia. — Flowers unisexual or neuter : male flowers with 1 

 stamen : male and gall flowers in one set of receptacles, fertile female and 

 neuter flowers in another set ; climbers with large coloured receptacles, 

 the leaves tesselate beneath. 



Ficus Scratchleyana, King ; scandent, glabrous except the recep- 

 tacles which are minutely sub-tomentose ; leaves petiolate, coriaceous, 

 entire, narrowly elliptic-oblong, gradually tapering to either end, the 

 base minutely cordate, 3-nerved ; the apex with a short blunt point ; 

 under surface tesselate ; primary lateral nerves 6 or 6 pairs, prominent 

 beneath, as is the midrib ; length of blade 5 to 7 in. ; width 1-75 in. to 

 2"25 in. ; petioles 1 in. to 1'5 in. long ; stipules subulate, convolute, 

 about '5 in. long. ; receptacles axillary, solitary, pedunculate, ovoid- 

 globose, minutely sub-tomentose, with a prominent umbilicus, about 1 

 inch in diam., basal bracts 3, small ; fertile female flowers pedicillate, 

 the perianth of 4 linear pieces, ovary ovoid-elliptic, the style lateral ; 

 stigma large, bicrural when young, truncate when adult from the absorp- 

 tion of the arms ; neuter flowers mixed with the females all over the 

 receptacle, pedicillate, the perianth of 4 lanceolate pieces : receptacles 

 containing male and gall flowers not seen. 

 New Guinea, H. O. Forbes, No. 900. 



This is well distinct from any other species of this group. Its 

 nearest ally is J^. apiocarpa, Miq. 



Sycidium. — Flowers unisexual : male and gall flowers in one set 

 of receptacles ; fertile female flowers in a distinct set of receptacles ; 

 male flowers with 1 stamen (sometimes 2). Leaves alternate; recep- 

 tacles small, axillary, more or less scabrid (a few have receptacles in 

 fascicles from the stem) ; shrubs, small trees or climbers ; rarely 

 epiphytal. 



Ficus Armiti, King : a climber ; the young shoots covered with 

 short, buff-coloured tomentum ; leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, 

 membranous, ovate-lanceolate, with a long acuminate apex, the base 

 rounded or sub-cordate 5 to 7-nervecl, the edges entire ; primary lateral 

 nerves 5 to 7 pairs, diverging from the midrib at rather a wide angle, 

 lower surface minutely tuberculate, hispid especially on the midrib and 

 nerves, the longer hairs with black enlarged bases ; upper surface 

 scabrid, the midrib minutely hispid ; length of blade 2"5 in, to 3. ; 



