Ficus, G. King.] cxxxvi. URTICACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 528 
Wight Ic. t. 638; Dalz, & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 943. F. demonum, Ken. in 
Roxb. 1. c. 569 ; Wight Te. 641; Wall. Cat. 4538. F. prominens, Wall. 
Cat, 4537 ; Miq. Ann. iii. 991. F. mollis, Willd. in Act. Berol. 1798, 103, 
1.5. F. scabra, Jacq. Hort. Schenb, iii. t. 315. Covellia demonum, Miq. 
mL. J. B. vii. 461; Dalz. d' Gibs. l c. 244. C. oppositifolia, Gasp. Rich. 
85: Mig. in L. J. B. l.c; Griff. Ie. Pl. Asiat. t. 560. C. setulosa, cour- 
tallensis, Wightiana, assamica & dasycarpa, Mig. in L. J. B. l. c. 461 to 
464; Flor. i. ii. 393. Sycomorpha Roxburghii, Mig. 
Throughout INDIA, from the Pansas in the N.W. to MALACCA and CEYLON.— 
ISTRIB. Malay Islands, China, Australia. 
A shrub or small tree, Leaves usually opposite, 4-12 in.; base rounded cuneate 
or subcordate, rather scabrid above, hispid beneath; petiole 4—14 in., or on shoots 
3-3) in., hispid ; stipules } in., pubescent, often in whorls of 4 on the receptacles 
With leafless branches, Receptacles ripe hispid yellowish, with bracts scattered on the 
sides ; peduncle 37% in.; basal bracts 3. Flowers much as in F, conglobata, but fem, 
style hairy and stigma cylindric tubular.—Receptacles often hypogeal in sandy coast 
of Coromandel. 
7l. F. saemocarpa, Mig. Ann. Mus. iii, 232, 296 ; branchlets hirsute, 
leaves opposite crowded linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate entire, nerves 6-8 
pairs, recepts solitary axillary or in short panicles from the old wood sub- 
globose, base constricted 8-10-ribbed warted and hispid. F. pyrrhocarpa, 
Kurz Foy. FL ii. 494. F. tuberculata, Wall. Cat. 4539. F. squamosa, 
Hoa), and F. laminosa, Hardw. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 531. 
Foot of the HIMALAYA; in sandy and rocky streams from Kumaon to Bhotan. 
AM, the Krasra Hints and BURMA. . 
low shrub; branchlets hirsute. Leaves 3-9 in., smooth, rarely scabrid above, 
neath smooth or scaberulous, rarely hispid, base narrowed, 3-nerved ; petiole i1 in., 
pubescent ; stipules in pairs, }—4 in., ovate, acuminate, nearly glabrous. Recepts 4-1 in. 
Ass 
1am., with scattered bracts on the sides, umbilicus large; peduncle 1—3 in., pubes- 
cent; basal bracts 3, triangular, deciduous. Male fl.; stamen 1, anther ovate or 
Obovate. Fem, f; perianth O. Gall ovary smooth, style short lateral. Achene 
rhomboid, and very long style hairy.—Leaves variable as to pubescence. 
ao > F. Cunia, Ham. in Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 561 ; leaves alternate ellip- 
Ue to oblong-lanceolate inequilateral acuminate entire or serrate, above 
Scabrid or smooth, beneath more or less pubescent, base semisagittate, 
nerves 9-14 pairs, recepts in pairs or clusters on scaly usually leafless 
branches globose or pyriform hispid. Wight Ic. t. 648; Mig. Ann, iii. 
282, 296; Brand. For. Fl. 421; Kurz For. Fl. ii, 461; Bedd. For. Man. 
453] Conglomerata, Roxb. 1. c. 559; Wight Ic. t. 669 5 Walt. Cat. 
331, Covellia Cunia, conglomerata & inæquiloba, Miq. in L. J. B. 
vu. 459. 
th Sv B-HIMALAYAN Forests, from the Chenab to Bhotan ; CENTRAL INDIA, ASSAM, 
€ KHAsra Mrs., CurrrAGoNG and Burma ; ascending to 4000 ft. d: petiol 
À low tree, Leaves 4-1 in., larger basal lobe 3—4-, smaller l-nerve l; petiole 
a m., scabrid ; stipules 3—1] in., linear-lanceolate, puberulous. Recepts jn iam., 
Gu red-brown ; basal bracts 3; peduncle short. Male sepals 3; ant ler ovate. 
sa and fem. sepals about 4, lanceolate, united below ; gall ovary glo ose, sm o 3 
M le Very short, latera], Achene broadly ovoid, emarginate on one side, tuberculate, 
? style very long, lateral; stigma large, bifid. 
3. F. Prostrata, Wail. Cat. 4536; glabrous, leaves alternate oblan- 
ceolate-oblon l : : bout 10 pairs, receptacles sub- 
: - e, nerves abou pairs, rece : 
Pytiform on long fexuons nearly simple leafless branches solitary in the 
