1887.] G. King — Neiu Species of Ficus from New Guinea. 61 



antennae brown, second joint shorter than the third, the latter some- 

 times twice as long as the former : dull plates (plaques mates) less 

 developed with some strong, deep points, especially in the mesosternal 

 angle : ostiolar canal very long, projecting beyond the transverse two- 

 thirds of the metasternum (Sign.). Long, 5-7 ; broad, 2|-5 mill. 

 Common in Europe and Asia. 



IV. — A second series of New Species of Ficus from New Guinea. — By 

 George King, M. B., LL. D., F. L. S., Superintendent of the Eoyal 

 Botanic Garden^ Calcutta. 



[Received March 23rd ;— Read April 6th, 1887.] 



Since reading my paper before this Society " on some new species 

 of Ficus from New Guinea," in January last, I have received from the 

 distinguished botanist and explorer. Signer Beccari of Florence, materials 

 which enable me to describe seven additional new species from that 

 island. The whole of these species were collected either by Sig. Beccari 

 himself, or by his companion Count D'Albertis. These seven species 

 all belong to the third of the sab-groups defined in my paper just re- 

 ferred to, namely, the group characterised by having " unisexual flowers, 

 the males and galls being in one set of receptacles and the fertile female 

 flowers alone occupying another set of receptacles." In this group these 

 seven species are distributed amongst the sections Sycidium, Govellia^ 

 JEusyce, and Neomorphe, for the distinguishing characters of which I must 

 refer to the paper already mentioned. 



Sycidium. 



Ficus conspicahilis, King. A tree (?) the young branches and leaf- 

 buds covered with short deciduous yellow hairs ; leaves broadly ovate or 

 elliptic, the apex acute or shortly acuminate, the edges entire ; the base 

 broad, slightly unequal, sub-cordate, 7-nerved ; primary lateral nerves 

 about 6 pairs ; secondary nerves sub-transverse, little curved ; lower 

 surface pubescent especially on the midrib and nerves, reticulations 

 minute distinct ; upper surface minutely lepidote ; length of blade about 

 8 inches ; petiole '8 in. ; stipules densely covered with long, yellow, silky 

 hairs. Receptacles large, shortly pedunculate, axillary, solitary, de- 

 pressed-turbinate, both base and apex very concave, the surface 

 wrinkled, rough, minutely tuberculate, deciduously hispid-tomentose ; 

 length from base to apex 1*1 in.; breadth 1*6 in.; umbilicus much 



