1887.] G. King — New Species of Ficus from New Guinea. 63 



Bmooth warts, 1 in. across when ripe ; umbilical scales large and thick j 

 basal bracts none ; peduncle thick, pubescent, bearing 3, small, broadly 

 triangular bracts at or below the middle, varying in length from "5 in. 

 to 1*25 in. ; fertile female flowers pedicillate or sessile, the ovary sub- 

 globular, smooth; style elongate, subterminal ; receptacular hairs few,, 

 pale, long : male and gall flowers unknown. 



New Guinea, Ramoi : Beccari (Herb. Becc. P. P. No. 388). 



Ternate, Acqui-Conora : Beccari. 



The receptacles are often either partially or entirely covered by the 

 soil. 



Ficus Arfahensis, King. A tree, the young shoots scurfy and softly 

 pubescent ; leaves petiolate, sub-coriaceous, lanceolate, acute, gradually 

 narrowed to the faintly 3-nerved base, edges entire ; primary lateral 

 nerves 6 to 8 pairs, obsolete on the upper, prominent on the lower sur- 

 face, and like the midrib and secondary nerves adpressed pilose, the 

 rest of the lower surface minutely covered with white tubercles, sparse- 

 ly pilose ; upper surface sparsely covered with adpressed whitish hairs : 

 length of blade 4*5 to 7 inches ; petiole pilose, 6 in. long ; stipules linear- 

 lanceolate, glabrous, nearly 1 inch long. Receptacles borne on long, 

 ramous, slender branches which emerge from the base of the stem and 

 apparently creep on or beneath the surface of the ground, pedunculate, 

 ovoid, scabrid, slightly verrucose, '45 in across ; umbilical scales nu- 

 merous, prominent ; basal bracts 3, triangular. 



Mount Arfak in New Guinea, at from 5000 to 7000 feet above the 

 sea : Sig. Beccari (Herb. Becc. without number). 



The receptacle-bearing branches often carry towards their extre- 

 mities small leaves and modified stipules. 



EUSTCE. 



Ficus Gomitis, King. Young branches glabrous ; leaves mem- 

 branous, elliptic, the apex shortly and narrowly cuspidate, the base 

 broad, 3-nerved ; primary lateral nerves about 8 pairs, diverging from 

 the thick strong midrib at a wide angle, prominent on both surfaces 

 but especially so on the lower which is thickly dotted with minute 

 white tubercles ; glabrous except on the midrib and primary nerves 

 which are densely and softly puberulous, reticulations minute, very 

 distinct : upper surface glabrous, thickly dotted with tubercles like 

 those on the under surface, but slightly larger ; length of blade 4 to 6 

 inches; petiole from *75 in. to 1"75 in. Stipules lanceolate, '6 in. long. 

 Receptacles pedunculate, axillary, in pairs, sub-globose or sub-pyriform, 

 the umbilicus rather prominent, gradually narrowed to the peduncle, 

 adpressed-puberulous, slightly verrucose; about '25 in. across; basal 



