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slender; petioles canaliculate above, iY\-2.y 2 in. long; stipules 

 ovate, acute, caducous, appressed, puberulous on the back to 8 lines 

 long. Peduncles axillary, in pairs, very slightly compressed, green, 

 3-4 lines long. Receptacles globose, glabrous, white-spotted, 8-13 

 lines diam., when young pale green, afterwards whitish green, 

 tinged with red, when mature dark purple, very slightly umbilicate, 

 umbilical bracts at the apex 3, sub-rotund, small, obtuse, base 

 bracteate. basal bracts small. Flowers very shortly pedicellate, 

 pedicel bracteolate at the base, bracteole flaccid 1 / 2 -Ya line long, 

 male flowers yi line long, perianth unequally 3-partite, J / 2 line 

 long, segments obtuse, imbricate, stamen 1, filament short, stout; 

 anther thick, bilocular ; female flowers nearly 1 line long, perianth 

 unequal 3-4 fid, y 2 line long, style included, slender, elongate y 

 line long, stigma subulate, attaining 1 line in length and nearly 

 y 2 line broad. 



Hab. : Booby Island, Banks and Solander. 

 P. 485. — After F. virginea add: — 



A medium or large-sized tree, branchlets very slightly com- 

 pressed or angular, smooth, towards the apex very slender and 

 pubescent. Leaves alternate, scattered, elliptic or somewhat oval, 

 apex a little acute or obtuse or sometimes shortly acuminate, base 

 cuneate or obtuse, suboblique, coriaceous, entire, broad, smooth 

 on both surfaces, above a dark green, shining, beneath a paler 

 green, somewhat 1 -nerved, penniveined, veinlets anastomosing, 

 reticulations minute, petiolate, 2-5 in. long, l / 2 -i in. broad, petioles 

 4-10 lines long, canaliculate. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, caducous, 

 4 lines long. Peduncles in pairs, terete, short, thick, very thinly 

 pubescent. Receptacle sub-globose, pisiform, glabrous, smooth, 

 spotted, spots small, scattered, yellow or at length reddish, 3-4 

 lines diam. Basal bracts very short. Bracteoles of the flowers 

 small, flaccid. Flowers small, subsessile, obovoid, perianth glab- 

 rous, 3-4 partite, segments ovate or obovate, stamen 1, filament 

 very short, anther short, broad, stigma obtuse or conical, attaining 

 y 2 line in length. 



Hab.: Booby Island, Torres Strait, Banks and Solander. 



The specimen seems nearest to F. citgciiioides, F. v. M. 

 Hiern. 



P. 486. — After F. infectoria add : — 



F. Pritzelii, Warb., Fedde Rep. 1, p. 74. — A high-climbing 

 liana, branchlets glabrous, stipules small not y 2 line long, glabrous, 

 involute-lanceolate, caducous, petioles about y 2 in. long, canalicu- 

 late, glabrous, pale-coloured when dry, at the apex glandular, 

 spotted on the back. Leaves somewhat coriaceous, glabrous, 

 elliptic even to oblong, base rotundate, a little cordate or subcor- 

 date, apex rotundate then shortly apiculate acute; main nerves, 

 about 12 on either side of the midrib, patent, slender, scarcely 



