442 URTICACER. [ Freus, 
with aéral roots, or sending out numerous aéral trunks as thick as a 
man’s body or thicker, and forming a labyrinth like Ff. Beugelanats 
all parts glabrous ; bark grey, covered with pustules; cut 
csi glabrous ; leaves oblong to almost ovate-oblong, on a thick 
1.2 in. long petiole, sometimes somewhat unequal at the rounded or 
obtuse base, 4-6 in. long, bluntish or shortly and bluntish apiculate, 
entire, coriaceous, glabrous, 3-nerved above the base, usually with 2 
inconspicuous additional nerves, the lateral nerves few, thin, 
somewhat curved and remote, anastomosing, the lax net-veination 
thin and somewhat obsolete ; receptacles sessile, by pairs in the axils 
of the leaves, globular, the size of a cherry, glabrous, ee 
or yellow with lighter dots, tg Si d only by the annular base 
the very deciduous glabrous bra 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical Sats of me eastern and southern slopes of 
the Paki Yomah and the Martaban hills down to Tenasserim and the Andamans. 
—Fr. Mar ar.-Apr.—s : LSS i etam., a 
EMARKS.— Wood w coarse and at gta Yields a very good 
sort of caoutchouk ebay te that of F. elas 
6, F. altissima, Bl—An evergreen (?) very large tree, all parts 
glabrous, except the softly greyish pubescent stipules ; leaves 0 
long to. ovate-oblong, obtuse or rounded at the base, on a strong 
_ petiole 1-13 in. long, blunt or bluntish apiculate, 3-6 in. long, 
entire, coriaceous, glabrous, 3-nerved above the base and usua 
with 1 thin additional nerves alone the margin, the lateral 
nerves strong, but little prominent, anastomosing towards the mar- 
gin, the veination tolerably lax ; receptacles sessile, by pairs in the 
axils of the leaves, oblong or nearly so, the size of a cherry, glab- 
rous, supported only ae the circular pubescent base of the very 
caducous pubescent brac 
Has.—Upper RSTO March-Apr. ‘ 
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rous ; leaves from oblong and elliptical to obevate-oblong, obtuse of 
acute at the base, on a strong petiole up to an inch long, shortly 
and rather abruptly acuminate or apiculate, 5-7 in. long or longer, _ 
= coriaceous, glabrous, 3-plinerved, the lateral nerves nUMeI= 
us, thin, parallel, anastomosing towards the border, the very ae 
net“veination conspicuous ; receptacles sessile, by pairs in the of 
the leaves or more usually. from above the scars of the fallen one 
des or nearly so, the size of a very small cherry, glabrous, — 
3-bracted, the bracts persistent, large, broadly ovate, blunt, pubert-— 
lous or glabrous. : 
an ae paay adlaizw ba pore d moister upper mixed forests of the 
Pegu » more frequent in geet From Martaban yo to Tenasserim.—Fr : 
Jan, fa a 8. BEL = S85. Metam. 
