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



pale stripes, about '75 in. across; umbilical scales numerous, ratber 

 broad; basal bracts 3, ovate-acute; peduncles '75 in. long; male flowers 

 only near the ostiole, sessile, tbe perianth inflated, of three broadly- 

 ovate much imbricate pieces ; anther broadly ovate, its apex emarginate, 

 sub-sessile ; gall flowers sub-sessile or long-pedicillate, without perianth, 

 the ovary ovoid-globose, smooth ; style short, lateral ; stigma tubular ; 

 fertile female flowers without perianth, pedicillate, the achene obovoid, 

 minutely tuberculate ; style as long as ovary, lateral ; stigma, cyliiidric. 

 Celebes, De Vriese ; Singapore, King;' Sumatra, Beccari; (Becc. Herb, 

 P. S. Nos. 544, 631, 761); Perak, King's Collector, Nos. 1883, 955; 

 Burmah, Kurz, No. 1520, 3145 ; New Guinea, Forbes, No. 903. 



This species is allied to F. hotryocarpa, Miq. by the short, much 

 branched receptacular panicles. This is the plant which Miquel de- 

 scribed as Covellia caulocarpa ; but as he had already described a Uros- 

 tigma caulocarpa^ it became necessary to find a new name for this, and I 

 have taken the opportunity of re-naming it after that distinguished 

 botanist. 



Ficus Chalmersii, King ; a tree, the young shoots slightly swollen 

 at the nodes, the bark dark brown with short pale adpressed hispid 

 hairs : leaves alternate, thickly membraneous, ovate-lanceolate to ovate- 

 oblong, tapering gradually to the slightly unequal, bluntish or sub-acute, 

 3-nerved base, and to the sharply, but shortly acuminate, apex ; the 

 edges entire or obscurely and remotely sub-serrate ; primary lateral 

 nerves about 7 pairs, minutely adpressed-hispid on both surfaces ; th© 

 remainder of the lower surface of the leaf glabrous, of the upper sur- 

 face minutely adpressed-hispid ; length of blade 5 or 6 inches ; petiole 

 about '5 in. long, adpressed-hispid ; stipules, in pairs, lanceolate, glabrous 

 except a few stiff hairs near the base externally, '5 in. long ; receptacles 

 on short woody racemes from the stem and larger branches, pedunculate, 

 in pairs, when young broadly pyriform with concave apex and much 

 depressed umbilicus, smooth, '75 in. or upwards in diam. ; basal bracts 3, 

 broadly triangular, united into a cup ; peduncle thick, about '25 in. 

 long ; female flowers (when young) narrowly ovoid-elliptic, the style 

 short, thick, terminal, with a dilated discoid tubular stigma ; the peri- 

 anth gamophyllous, half as long as the ovary and closely applied to it ; 

 ripe female, male and gall flowers unknown. 



New Guinea ; H. O. Forbes, No. 100. A species near hracliiata^ 

 King, but not so glabrous, and with its receptacles borne on much 

 shorter branches than in that species. 



Named after the Hev. J. Chalmers, the intrepid Missionary explorer 

 of New Guinea. 



Ficus Bernaysii, King : a tree ? the young shoots fulvous-tomen- 



