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_ -FICUS corzacea. 
— Corraceous-leaved Fig. 
POLYGAMIA DIGCIA.—Nar. Onp. URTICEE. 
Gen. Cuar. —Receptacuhim commune subsphericum, carnosum, connivens, 
flosculos numerosos_ occultans.—Masc. Cal. 3-partitus. Cor.0. Stam. 
1-3.—Fam. Cal. ‘S-S-partitus. Cor. 0. --Pistillum 1. Semen unicum.— 
Ficus coriacea ; foliis ellipticis obtusissimis coriaceis, basi subattenuatis, 
supra glabris nervis impressis (pallidis), subtus (petiolisque) pubes- 
centibus venis prominentibus, receptaculis sessilibus geminatis glo- 
bosis subverrucosis velutinis. 
rt. Ken. ed. 1. v. iil. p. 433. 
ee, with | ‘rounded branches, clothed with greyish — 
e with transverse lines. Leaves 4-5 inches long, co~ 
enual ed at the base (but not cordate), very obtuse at the 
we quite glabrous, very dark green, with the midribs and 
ersed; below pale green, subpubescent, the midrib 
el les an inch and a half to two inches coi 
— coriacea, Arr. 
This seems to form 
ice globo eater = of an inch in ‘iets quite sessile, some< 
what warted, of a brownish-orange colour, velvety, surrounded at the 
base with 3 broadly ovate glabrous bractez. 
This is a dint that has been long aldpeed | in the Bota- 
nic Garden of Liverpool, but from what country it came is not 
known. It there stands under the name of Ficus coriacea, a 
species adopted by Mr AlITON, and unknown, as it would ap- 
pear, to other Botanists. 
Fig. 1. A receptacle separated from the branch. 
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