842 ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. 



prominent on either surface, near the margin very much bent and 

 joined; basal nerves not at all divergent nor thicker, reticulations 

 very slender, but rather prominent. Receptacles axillary in pairs 

 or single by abortion, subglobose but the apex depressed, glabrous, 

 when dry fuscescent, base sometimes shortly stipitate, 4 to 5 lines 

 in diameter, ostiole scales convex, prominent, pubescent, peduncles 

 i l / 2 to 2 lines long, J / 2 line broad, very slightly puberulous. Male 

 flowers not at all standing out. Female flowers : sepals oblong, 

 red, apex obtuse or rotundate, style filiform, stigma elongate, apex 

 not at all thickened, bracts lanceolate. 



Hab. : On stiff clay soils, about 1,660 feet above sea-level, Upper 

 Barron River, L. Diets. 



The species stands nearest to F. infectoria, Roxb., and its 

 Australian representatives F. nesophila and F. Cnnninghamii, but 

 differs from them in that the leaves are much narrower and 

 thicker, the undivided base-nerves, the finer and straighter lateral 

 nerves, the very fine reticulations, and furthermore by the flat- 

 topped receptacle. — Warb. I.e. 



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



F. Cairnsii, Warb., Fedde. Rep. 1, 74. — A small tree, branch- 

 lets glabrous, stipules lanceolate, glabrous, acute, 4 to 5 lines long, 

 leaves coriaceous, broadly obovate, 1^4 to 2> : }i m - l° n g, J K to 2 

 in. broad, base obtuse or rotund, rarely rotunclate-cuneate, apex 

 commonly rotundate, rarely obtuse or refuse ; veins slender, some- 

 what prominent on both sides of the leaf, main nerves about 

 8 to 10, a little thicker, basal pair rather mere prominent, ascend- 

 ing and marginal. Receptacles sessile axillary, in pairs in the 

 upper portions of the branchlets, nearly l /2 in. long, broadly pyri- 

 form, apex flattened, basal bracts 3, connate at the base, 1 to 1J/2 

 line long, obtuse, glabrous, ostiole flat. Male flowers monandrous, 

 sepals 3, apex rotund, red with white margins, filament short, 

 anthers broad, obtuse, base cordate. Female flowers : sepals 3, 

 obtuse, red with white margins, style filiform, stigma oblong, 

 scarcely thicker, papillose. 



Hab. : In sandy alluvial soil not far from the seaside, Cairns, L. Diels. 



F. Thynneana, Bail,, has, according to the description, much 

 longer and narrower leaves, while the description of the receptacle 

 and the habitat agree with our species. Dr. Diels thinks that 

 F. Thynneana has been described after two species. — Warb. I.e. 



I may here state that my original description of F. Thyn- 

 neana was drawn up from specimens collected by myself off a 

 single tree, so could hardly be referred to two species. 



P. 486. — Ficus retusa, Linn., var. nitida, King: Of the two 

 trees referred to, the larger one, which was planted about 1880, 

 has a spread of 80 ft. and a height of about 40 ft., and the smaller 

 one a spread of 66 ft. and a height of about 25 ft. 



