534 CXXXVI. URTICACEÆ®. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ficus, G. King. 
104. F. nemoralis, Wall. Cat. 4517; glabrous, leaves membranous 
ovate-elliptic- or ob-lanceolate acuminate entire, nerves 7-12 pairs subhori- 
zontal, recepts subsessile axillary subglobose or clavate. Miq. in L. J. B. 
vii. 453; Ann. iii. 295 (excl. verrucosa); Brand. For. Fl. 424. F. gemella, 
Wall. Cat. 4516, and F. densa, Mig. in L. J. B. l. c. 545; Ann. l.e. F. 
Fieldingii, Mig. in D. J. B.l. c. 439; Ann. l. c. 280, 994. F. trilepis, Miq. 
Ann. l. c. 294; Wall. Cat. 4494 B. F. binata, Wall. Cat. 4554. 
A HIMALAYA, from Hazara to Bhotan, alt. 1500-6500 ft.  KmasrA Mrs. and 
SSAM. 
A small glabrous tree or shrub. Leaves 3-5} in., base cuneate, rarely rounded, 
3-nerved, nerves and reticulations prominent and dark beneath; petiole 3-1 in. ; 
stipules lanceolate, convolute, glabrous. Recepts } in. diam., all with male fl.; basal 
bracts 3, broad, connate; peduncle 4 in. or less. Male fl. pedicelled, few in the fem. 
recepts and near the mouth, numerous and sometimes scattered all over the gall 
recepts. Sepals in all fl. 3, lanceolate, fleshy. Stamens 2-3. Gall ovary ovoid, 
crustaceous. Achene rounded, wrinkled ; style longer and more lateral than of gull fl. 
—The forms are disposable in two series. I. Recepts ovoid or clavate; male fl. few, 
fem. many, galls few or 0.—F. nemoralis; leaf-base rather broad, recepts ovoid 
shortly peduncled (Central and E. Himal., Assam).—PF. trilepis; recepts clavate 
young ellipsoid truncate (Central and E. Himal.). II. Recepts subglobose, male 
and gal fl. many, fem. few or 0.—F. gemella; leaves narrow, recepts sessile 
(Central Himal. and Assam).— F. Fieldingii; leaves narrow much acuminate, recepts 
abruptly shortly peduncled (W. Himal. to 300 ft., E. Himal. to 8000 ft.). Approaches 
Urostigma. 
Sect. VII. Nromorpus (see p. 496). 
105. F. macrocarpa, Wight mss.; scandent, leaves long-petioled 
membranous broadly ovate shortly acuminate sometimes unequal-sided 
glabrous above pubescent beneath, nerves about 3 pairs, recepts in cauline 
clusters globose, basal bracts 0. Pogonotrophe macrocarpa, Mig. in Wight 
Ic. t. 1965. 
Niransmi HILLs, alt. 5000 ft., Wight, Gamble. 
A large climbing tree, shoots at first puberulous. Leaves 5 in., base rounded or sub- 
cordate; petiole 2-25 in. ; stipules } in., lanceolate. Recepts 1-2} in. diam., spotted ; 
peduncles about j in., with several bracts at their base. Fem. fl. sessile or pedicelled 5 
sepals 6; ovary subovoid; style as long, subterminal, hairy; stigma 2-lobed.— 
Miquel (Ann. iii. 278) refers macrocarpa, Wight, to vagans, Roxb., which is levis. 
Perhaps a form of the following. 
106. F. guttata, Kurz; leaves broadly ovate cuspidate sparsely 
puberulous above minutely villous or glabrescent beneath, nerves about 
3 pairs, recepts in cauline and rameal ‘clusters shortly peduncled subglobose 
pubescent, basal bracts 3. Covellia guttata, Wight Ic. t. 1966. 
NILGHIRI and Putnry Hiris, Wight, Gamble, Beddome. 
A climbing tree, branchlets tomentose at length glabrous. Leaves 4-5 in., base 
broad, rounded or subcordate, 3-5-nerved. Recepts 1-11 in. diam., (ripe) blotched. 
Fem. fl. sessile; sepals 6, style short, stigma widely fuunel-shaped. 
107. F. Roxburghii, Wall. Cat, 4508; leaves broadly ovate 0 
rounded mucronate entire or toothed above glabrous or glabrescent beneat 
softly pubescent base cordate, nerves 3—4 pairs, recepts on short leafless 
cauline branchlets peduncled turbinate 8-12 ridged. Brand. For. Fl. v ; 
Kurz For. Fl. ii. 460. F. macrophylla, Rorb. Fl. Ind. iii. 550 ; Wight 10- 
t. 673. ° F. scleroptera, Griff. Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 558. F. regia, Mig. Am. iii. 
230, 297 (in part). Covellia macrophylla, Mig. in L. J. B. vii. 465. 
