Compilation
Ficus kerstingii

A tree 20 ft. high; young flowering branchlets stout, about 4 lin. in diam. near the tip, glabrous, with reddish bark marked by scattered lenticels. Leaves dark green with red nerves (Barter), very broadly ovate or suborbicular, very shortly and obtusely acuminate, deeply cordate, the basal lobes forming an open sinus, 4–6 in. long, 3 1/2–6 in. broad, entire, rigidly chartaceous or subcoriaceous, dull on both surfaces, glabrous, 7–9-nerved at the base, the first and second nerves of these with several descending branches; midrib flat above, prominent below, much narrower than the petiole, about 3/4 lin. broad at the base, gradually narrowed to and finally reaching the apex of the leaf; lateral nerves (excluding the basal ones) 4–5 on each side, diverging from the midrib at an angle of about 65°, bifurcate about 3/4 in. from the margin, distinct above, prominent below; tertiary nerves rather lax; veins close and rather faint below; petiole 2–4 in. long, 1 1/4 lin. thick, glabrous or thinly pubescent; stipules deciduous, not seen. Receptacles in axillary fascicles at the tips of the shoots, 2–3 in each fascicle, pedunculate, obovoid, 1/2 in. long, 5 lin. in diam., rounded at the base with a prominent gaping ostiole about 3/4 lin. long; peduncles 4 lin. long, 3/4 lin. thick, glabrous; basal bracts forming a one-sided saucer-shaped involucre closely appressed to the base of the receptacle, nearly 1/4 in. broad, with undulate margin, glabrous. Ostiolar bracts all pointing into the receptacle, the middle one the longest, linear, obtuse, 2 lin. long, 2/3 lin. broad, subchartaceous, the others a little shorter and subulate from an ovate base, with membranous margins. Male flowers very few, near the ostiolar bracts, pedicellate; perianth membranous, enclosing the solitary sessile stamen. Female flowers numerous, scattered amongst the gall flowers, sessile; perianth small and membranous. Gall flowers numerous, pedicellate, with nearly sessile stigmas. Scales of the receptacle subulate-lanceolate, acute, 3/4 lin. long, membranous, glabrous, with a reddish midrib.