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base slightly constricted, ebracteate ; peduncle thin, '4 in. to '8 in. long, 

 with a few small scattered bracteoles, scabrid ; male flowers with 2 

 stamens and a 6 or 6-cleft hairy perianth ; gall flowers with a perianth 

 similar in shape but not hairy, the ovary ovoid, the style short, lateral ; 

 fertile female flowers with the achene ovoid, smooth, nmcilaginoiis ex- 

 ternally when ripe ; the style lateral, longer than the ovary, curved ; the 

 stigma clavate ; the perianth as in the gall flower. 



New Guinea, (Soron) Sig. Beccari (Herb. Becc. P. B., No. 188) ; H. O. 

 Forbes, No. 765. 



A species allied to the Australian F. magnifolia, Mull, and to 

 Madu7'ensis, Miq. but with shorter petioles and more muricate receptacles. 

 It also comes near hrevicuspis, Miq., but its leaves are not obovate and 

 their bases are not cordate as in that species ; they are moreover longer, 

 more pointed, and have shorter petioles. This also resembles F. halicay 

 Miq. and F. copiosa, Steud. This, however, has two stamens, while the 

 majority of those just mentioned have but one. The receptacles in 

 Forbes's specimens are axillary and are more boldly muricate than in 

 Beccari's No. 188 : the leaves are also rather longer. When better mate- 

 rial shall be forthcoming, it may be possible to separate these two forms 

 specifically. At present I include them under one species. 



Ficus Odoardi, King : Monogr. Indo-Mal. and Chinese Ficus ; a tree, 

 the young shoots covered with brown tomentum, the leaves oblong- 

 elliptic, slightly inequilateral, gradually narrowed upwards to the shortly 

 acuminate apex, the edges entire ; the base broad, rounded, very slightly 

 emarginate, 3-nerved ; primary lateral nerves 5 pairs, prominent on the 

 lower surface which is pretty uniformly hispid-pilose ; upper surface 

 slightly harsh and with some scattered stiff hairs especially on the nerves, 

 the midrib minutely tomentose ; length of blade from 6 to 9 inches ; 

 petiole about '3 in,, tomentose ; stipules ovate-acuminate, tomentose 

 on the outer, glabrous on the inner, surface, '6 in. long ; receptacles 

 pedunculate, in pairs or solitary, axillary, 1 inch and upwards in diam., 

 sub-globose, with conical umbonate apex and broad concave base, the 

 sides rough, minutely tuberculate and deciduously hispid-pubescent or 

 tomentose ; the umbilicus minute, closed by stiff yellow hairs, and sur- 

 rounded at some distance by a wavy annulus ; basal bracts none ; diame- 

 ter, 1*25 in. ; peduncles stout, clothed, like the receptacles, with decidu- 

 ous tomentum, '3 in. long ; male flowers pedicillate, large, occupying the 

 upper half of the receptacles with the gall flowers ; stamens 2, anthers 

 linear, apicalate ; perianth of 4 pieces, of which 2 are as long as and 2 are 

 shorter than the stamens : gall flowers smaller, and on shorter pedicels, 

 than the males, the perianth of 4 distinct pieces, the achene globular ; 

 style terminal, stigma slightly dilated : fertile female flowers not known. 



