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depressed, large, with numerous scales ; basal bracts 3, broadly triangu- 

 lar ; pedicel "2 in. long, bispid ; female flowers sub-sessile or pedicellate, 

 perianth of three distinct dark-coloured pieces ; ovary ovoid, smooth ; 

 style terminal, longer than the ovary in the sessile, shorter than the 

 ovary in the pedicellate flowers. 



New Guinea: Sig. Beccari (Herb. Beccari, P. P. No. 651.) 

 Ficus mespiloides, King. A tree ; the young shoots with long, tawny, 

 adpressed, rather stiff hairs which are ultimately deciduous ; leaves hard 

 and rather harsh to the touch, sub-coriaceous, petiolate, elliptic, in- 

 equilateral, the apex shortly cuspidate ; the edges, entire, recurved ; the 

 base narrowed, cordate or emarginate, sometimes oblique, 5 to 7-nerved ; 

 primary lateral nerves about 6 pairs, prominent beneath and minutely 

 adpressed-pubescent as is also the midrib ; the rest of the under surface 

 puberulous and obscurely and minutely tuberculate ; upper surface 

 minutely lepidote, glabrous, rigid ; length of blade 5 to 7 in. ; petiole 

 scurfy and with a few scattered adpressed fulvous hairs ; 4 in. long ; 

 stipules ovate, acute, pilose externally, '4 in. long. Receptacles sessile, 

 axillary, solitary, sub-globose (the base and apex truncate), the surfaces 

 with many faint vertical ridges especially towards the apex, slightly 

 verrucose, when young scurfy pubescent, when mature nearly glabrous ; 

 1 in. long by 1"3 in. broad ; the umbilicus large, wide, surrounded by a 

 rigid but in no way projecting annulus ; basal bracts 3, leaving an annu- 

 lar scar where they fall off : fertile female flowers ellipsoid, rather flat, 

 smooth, the style long, terminal ; perianth of 3 lanceolate, dark-coloured, 

 free pieces ; male and gall flowers unknown. 



New Guinea on Mount Arfak : Sig. Beccari (Herb. Beccari, P. P. 

 No. 962.) 



COVELLIA. 



Ficus conora King. A tree, all the young parts softly pubescent, 

 the young branches pale-coloured; leaves petiolate, membranous, elon- 

 gate-lanceolate, slightly inequilateral, the apex acuminate, the edges 

 entire, the base narrowed, 3-nerved ; primary lateral nerves 5 to 8 pairs, 

 slightly prominent beneath and, like the midrib, tomentose ; the rest 

 of the under surface pale in colour and (in the adult state) very shortly 

 hispid and minutely papillose (the papillae white) ; upper surface co- 

 vered with very minute white dots but no hairs ; length of blade 4 to 7 

 inches ; petioles '35 in. long, tomentose ; stipules lanceolate, pubescent 

 externally, "6 in. long. Receptacles borne on long, thin, flexuose, leafless, 

 nearly glabrous, branches which issue from the base of the stem, soli- 

 tary, long pedunculate, turbinate, the apex very broad and depressed, 

 the sides faintly ridged, scurfy-pubescent, and with numerous flat 



