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



New Guinea ; Beccari, (P. P. No. 937) ; H. 0. Forbes, No. 830. 

 Named after Signor Odoardo Beccari, of Florence, tlie distinguislied 

 Malayan Explorer and Botanist. 



Ficus rhizophoraephylla, King : scandent, all parts glabrous, the 

 leaves thinly coriaceous, on long petioles, narrowly elliptic, tapering 

 equally to either end, the edges entire cartilaginous and slightly recurved 

 "when dry, the midrib keeled and very prominent on the under surface ; 

 primary lateral nerves 12 pairs or upwards, sub- horizontal, scarcely visi- 

 ble on either surface ; under surface minutely tesselate, dull ; upper 

 surface very smooth, shining ; length of blade 3'5 in, breadth 1*5 in. ; 

 petiole 1*3 to 1"8 in. long : stipules linear-lanceolate, glabrous, as long as, 

 or longer than, the petioles ; receptacles crowded near the apices of the 

 branches, in pairs, shortly pedicillate, globular, very minutely tuber- 

 culate, '25 in. in diam. j female flowers on strong cartilaginous prismatic 

 peduncles thicker than the prismatico-conical smooth ovaries ; style 

 from the base of the ovary which it slightly exceeds in length, straight, 

 erect ; perianth of 3 linear pieces which rise from the margin of th© 

 peduncle : male and gall flowers unknown. 



New Guinea : H. 0. Forbes, No. 578. 



Without having seen its male and gall flowers, I put this species 

 without hesitation into the section Eusyce, on account of its resemblance 

 to F. oleaefolia, King, a species from Sumatra which has leaves very like 

 this in texture and venation, but is smaller in all its parts and especially 

 in its stipules. A farther indication of affinity is found in the fact 

 that the gall flowers of oleaefolia and the fertile females of this species 

 have similar prismatic ovaries. This in foliage also resembles the 

 Australian F. eugenioides, Mull., which however, has very different 

 female flowers, and which moreover is monocious and falls into the 

 section Urostigma. The leaves of this are of a pale greenish yellow 

 when dry ; in shape and venation they much resemble those of Uhizophora 

 conjugata, Linn. 



Ficus pauper, King, Monogr. Indo-Mal. and Chinese Ficus ; leaves 

 membranous, petiolate, slightly inequilateral, lanceolate or ovate-lanceo- 

 late, the apex acute, the edges entire, narrowed from below the midrib to 

 the obscurely 3-nerved base ; lateral primary nerves about 6 to 8 pairs 

 diverging from the midrib at rather a wide angle and, like the midrib, 

 prominent beneath ; midrib with a few scattered adpressed hairs ; upper 

 surface glabrous ; length of blade I'S in. to 2 inches ; petiole '3 in. 

 long, adpressed-strigose beneath; stipules persistent, scarious, decidu- 

 ously sericeous, ovate-acuminate, "35 in. long ; receptacles pedunculate, 

 in pairs, axillary when young, globose, slightly constricted at the base, 

 sparsely strigose, the umbilicus large and prominent j basal bracts 3, 



