144 Dr. Francis HawurrToN's Commentary 
Ficus repens g. 
Kha aun Burmanorum. 
Habitat in ripis Avæ fertilibus. 
Caulis fruticulosus, tres pedes longus, ramosus, glaber, repens. 
Folia alterna, cordata, obtusa, supra nitida, punctata, ru- 
gosa, pilis brevissimis scabra, costata, venis reticulata, mar- 
gine repando sed integerrimo quasi denticulata, nunc inte- 
gra, tunc triloba, vel sæpius repanda, sinubus lobisque 
obtusis. Petiolus teres, annulo ramum cingens, mediocris, 
hispidus. Stipule geminæ, laterales, brevissimze, caducæ. 
Inter pilos densos brevissimos, qui in petiolum et foliorum 
nervos insidunt, pauci sunt longiores apice hamati. 
Receptacula axillaria, lactescentia, erecta, solitaria, pedunculata, 
ovata, obtusa, angulata, pubescentia, elevato-punctata, apice 
sexdentato umbilicata. Pedunculus erectus, longitudine fere 
petiolorum compressus, apicem versus squamula una vel 
altera obtusa bracteatus. 
Ficus repens £. 
Habitat in Camrupæ sylvis. 
Caulis hirtus. Folia revere dentata, supra scabra, et pilis stella- 
tis hispida, subtus hirta, cæteroquin vix diversa. 
The leaves of this plant are used in Ava for polishing timber, 
as is also the case with those of the Ficus denticulata of Will- 
denow (Sp. PI. iv. 1132.), which, although placed by him at a 
great distance from the Ficus repens, is not a very distinct spe- 
cies, differing chiefly in its stem being scandent instead of repent; 
_ but this may be owing to its being found in places that are at 
times inundated, which may occasion the plants growing there 
- to raise themselves, while those in dry places creep on the sur- 
face. The leaves of the creeping kind are just as often lobed, as 
those 
