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Ficus Henneana, Miquei. 
A Deciduous Fig. 
(Natural Order URTICACE^E.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Ficus. (See Part I, p. 8.) 
Botanical description. —Species, F. Henneana, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Ludg. Bat., iii, 
216 . 
A large shrub or slender tree, quite glabrous. 
Leaves on petioles of 1 to 1|- in., oval or oblong elliptical, obtuse or .very shortly and obtusely 
acuminate, entire, rounded or cordate at the base, 3 to 5 in. long, 1 ( to broad, rather 
thinly coriaceous, the primary veins distant and prominent, the basal pair very oblique, the 
others spreading, the veinlets conspicuous but scarcely prominent. 
Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. 
Receptacles (in pairs?) on peduncles of about 2 lines, globular, £ to f in. diameter, smooth, but 
mottled with white, the subtending bracts very deciduous, leaving a truncate margin under 
the ripe fig. 
Male flowers few, shortly stipitate, the perianth trimerous, with one large anther on a very short 
filament, and the subulate stigma of the females entirely those of the section (B.F1., vi, 165). 
Amongst the New South Wales species of Ficus it is most nearly allied to F. C unninghamii, 
Miq., with which it has also the deciduous leaves in common, but from which it is easily 
distinguished by the larger and pedunculate receptacles, and by the shape of the leaves.— 
(Maiden and Betche, loc. cit. infra.) 
Botanical Name. — Ficus, already explained, Part I, p. 9; Henneana, in 
honour of a collector of North Queensland plants, named Henne. 
Vernacular Name. —I cannot trace a name given to it, either hy white or 
hlack men. It is called by botanists and others “ Deciduous Pig.” 
Leaves. —The leaves are deciduous, hut the trees remain hare only a few 
weeks in the year before the appearance of the new leaves. 
Fruit. —The ripe receptacles are reddish and purplish, and spotted with 
white. 
Timber. —Timber of very little value, and similar in properties to that of 
most of the Pig timbers. 
