Ficus.] URTICACER. 447 
usually 
fallen ones, globular, the size of a very large pea, umbonate, 
yellow, whitish pustulate, 3- or 4-bracted at the base, the bracts 
persistent, ovate, acute, minutely pubescent. 
Has.—In the upper mixed forests of Martaban, east of Tounghoo, up to 
about 2,000 ft. elevation.—l.—SS.—Metam. 
19. F. geniculata, Kz.—Nyoung-tha-bye.—A tree (830—60 + 
20—40 + 3—6), leafless in HL.S., stem-clasping, with robust scared 
branchlets pubescent at their softer extremities ; stipules broadly 
ovate, acute, glabrous or canescent; leaves elliptical to elliptically 
ovate and ovate-oblong, on a stiff 3-4 in. long petiole jointed at 
the apex, obtuse or acute at the base, shortly and abruptly acumi- 
somewhat obscure, the net-veination close, elegant, more or less 
obsolete or rarely conspicuous ; receptacles sessile or nearly so, by 
pairs in the axils of the leaves or above the scars of the fallen ones, 
globular, the size of a pepper-kernel or very small pea, yellowish, 
with white pustules, glabrous, 3- or 4-bracted at the base, the 
bracts persistent, broad, rounded, scarious, brown, glabrous. 
Var. 1, geniculata proper : leaves obsoletely net-veined ; recep- 
tacles sessile, the bracts persistent. 
Var. 2, abnormalis: leaves more prominently net-veined; re- 
ceptacles on very short, thick, greyish pubescent peduncles, the 
bracts all or partially deciduous. 
Has.—Both varieties common in the mixed and low forests all over Pegu 
a down to Tenasserim.—Fr. March-Apr.—l.—SS.—oo and epi- 
Cal, 
+8—4), the softer ends of the scared robust branchlets shortly 
tomentose ; stipules broadly ovate, tomentose; leaves very like 
those of the preceding species, elliptical to ovate-oblong, on a 2-3 
m. long petiole jointed at the apex, rounded or obtuse at the base, 
5-7 in. long, blunt-apiculate, entire or somewhat waved, glabrous, 
firmly coriaceous, glossy above, the lateral nerves tolerably paral- 
and elegant ; receptacles on thick, very short, tomentose peduncles, 
arising usually by pairs from the axils of the leaves or from above 
yery small cherry, villous, greyish white, with rose-coloured dots 
bracted at the es the bracts persistent, broadly ovate, scarious, 
brown, glabrous. 
