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lacunose-dotted between the obsolete net-veination, the 4 or 5 nerves 
at each side little prominent ; receptacles nearly 1} in. in diameter, 
apple-shaped, slightly umbonate, smooth, crimson-orange, con- 
tracted in a very short (about $ lin.) thick stalk, on a thick minutely 
pubescent peduncle 1-2 lin. long, arising usually singly from the 
axils of the leaves or from above the scars of the fallen ones ; bracts 
3, at the apex of the peduncle, persistent, triangular-ovate, almost 
glabrous. 
Haz.—Upper Tenasserim.—Fr. Apr. 
39. F. scandens, Roxb. ; Brand. For. Fl., 421.—An evergreen, 
rooting, large, scandent shrub ascending into trees up to 80 ft. high, 
the young shoots appressed and shortly but sparingly pubescent or 
glabrous ; stipules glabrous, linear-subulate ; leaves elliptically ovate 
to ovate, on a brown roughish petiole 3-5 lin. long, bluntish to 
bluntish acuminate, obtuse at the base, 2-4 in. long, coriaceous, 
glabrous or a little roughish, or beneath on the midrib sparingly 
appressed pubescent, triplinerved, with 3-4 strongly prominent 
nerves at each side, the -veins obsolete with tessellate whitish net- 
veination between ; receptacles globular or nearly so, not or abruptly 
contracted into a very short stalk, the size of a very large pea or 
larger, umbonate, crimson, rough, on 3-4 lin. long glabrous peduncles 
arising by pairs from the axils of the leaves or from above the scars 
of the fallen ones ; bracts 3, calyx-like, terminating the peduncle. 
_ Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests from the Pegu Yomah and. 
Martaban down to Tenasserim and the Andamans.—Fr. March-Apr. 
_ 40. F, scabrella, Roxb.—An evergreen, low, prostrate or ascend- 
ing shrub, the branchlets shortly and softly pubescent ; stipules 
very small, ovate, somewhat pubescent on the back ; leaves oblong 
to obovate-oblong, rounded at the somewhat narrowed base, acute 
or shortly acuminate, 2-3 in. long, repand-toothed, firmly mem- 
ranous, on both sides shortly rough-pubescent; receptacles ob- 
versely ovoid, the size of a cherry or prune, perforated-umbonate, 
crimson, covered with white lenticel-like asperities, not or indis- 
tinctly contracted in a very short stalk, on strong rough-pubescent 
peduncles 14-2 lin. long, arising usually from above the scars of 
the old fallen leaves ; bracts 3, at the apex of the peduncle, short 
and scale-like. 
Has.—Chittagong. 
41. F, anastomozans, Wall.—An evergreen, low,creeping shrub, 
all softer parts more or less rough-pubescent ; stipules minute, 
rough ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse at the base, on a 
roughish pubescent petiole 2-6 lin. long, more or less bluntish acu- 
Minate, 2-4 in. long, grossly and irregularly sinuate-toothed with 
