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covered with grey bark like the branchlets. Peduncles 

 solitary, axillary, shorter than the petioles, one-flowered. 

 Involucres embraced at the base by three short subrotund 

 bracts, nearly globose, smooth, shut at the mouth by scales, 

 and containing numerous pedicellate florets. Seeds naked, 

 hard. 



Obs. — The leaves are peculiar in having the middle nerve 

 dichotomous, a character by which this species may be rea- 

 dily distinguished from its congeners. 



FICUS DELTOIDEA. (W, J.) 



Foliis obcuneato-deltoideis apice latis v. retusis, nervo me- 

 dio dichotomo, fructibus axillaribus binis pedunculatis. 



A small tree, native of Sumatra, and very similar to 

 the preceding, but having the leaves proportionally broader, 

 more decidedly deltoid, and retuse or truncate, not rounded 

 at top ; the peduncles also are in pairs from the axils of the 

 leaves and longer than the petioles. The breadth of the 

 leaves is generally greater than their length in this species, 

 which is not the case with the preceding ; they are however 

 precisely similar in their leathery texture, and in having the 

 nerve dichotomous and not prominent. 



FICUS RIGID A. (W. J,) 



Foliis ovatis lineari-acuminatis rigidis, fructibus pendu- 

 culatis axillaribus globosis glabris. 

 Seribulan. Malay, 

 Sumatra, &c. 



A tree, with grey cinereous bark and smooth branchlets. 

 Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate or obovate, with long 

 linear acumina which are obtuse or emarginate at the point, 

 attenuated to the base, 3 — 4 inches long, entire, firm and 

 rigid, smooth, shining above, rugose with reticulate veins 



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