88 Urticacerc. [Fh-us. 



A large tree, 80-100 ft. high, with few aerial roots, quite 

 glabrous, except the pubescent shoots ; branchlets very stout; 

 1. 4-7 in., ovate oval-oblong or lanceolate, obtusely cuspidate, 

 quite entire, base cuneate, coriaceous, veins slender, 10-12 

 pairs, basal pair short ; petiole stout, j-i^ in. ; stip. i-if in., 

 lanceolate, very coriaceous ; recepts. axillary, sessile, solitary 

 and binate, subglobose, i-| in. diam., smooth, young enclosed 

 in calyptriform bracts ; basal bracts 3, rounded, hoary, connate 

 below ; male fl. scattered over the walls of the recept., pedi- 

 celled, sep. 4, stam. i, anth. subsessile ; fern. fl. ; — perianth 

 deeply 4-cleft ; ov. of gall fl. smooth, of fert. fem. usually 

 tubercled. 



Moist low country to 3000 ft. ; common. Fl. Aug.-November. Fr. 

 orange-red, as large as a cherry. 



This var. endemic ; the type and other vars. in India, Burma, Anda- 

 man Is., Malaya. 



I am not clear as to whether the type occurs wild in Ceylon, though 

 it is given in Fl. B. Ind. There are trees in the Botanic Gardens, and 

 I think I have seen it by the Mahaweli below Kandy. Dr. King 

 erroneously spells W. Ferguson's name with double s, after whom he 

 names this tree. 



6. P. Trimeni, King- injourn. Bot. xxiii. 242 (1885). 

 Urostigma Tjiela, Thw. Enum. 265 (in part) (non Miq.). King, Fie. 46. 



C. P. 2220. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 509. King, Fie. tt. 55, 83, f. i. 



A gigantic glabrous tree ; branches widely spreading, with 

 tew aerial roots ; 1. 3-4I in., oblong oval or ovate-oval, obtuse, 

 coriaceous, base cuneate, veins very many pairs, close-set, 

 slender, widely spreading and anastomosing; petiole f in. ; 

 stip. about ^ in., ovate, acuminate ; recepts, solitary or binate, 

 axillary, sessile, globose, i-f in. diam., smooth, mouth 

 minute ; basal bracts small, ovate-cordate ; male fl. scattered, 

 pedicelled ; sep. 3, broadly ovate; stam. i, anth. sessile; 

 sep. of pedicelled gall fl. and fert. fem. fl. 5, lanceolate ; style 

 of achene elongate, stigma flattened. 



Low country to 2000 ft.; rather rare. Peradeniya; Kaduganawa; 

 Ekiriankumbura, Uva. Fl. April-May, July-Aug. Fr. orange-yellow or 

 red when ripe, not dotted. 



Also in Western Peninsular India. 



A magnificent specimen of this species, with the branches covering 

 a circle of about 200 ft. in diameter, is a well-known feature of the 

 Peradeniya Gardens. It grew at first epiphytically on a Jack-tree, which 

 it destroyed and supplanted. 



7. r. caudiculata, Trim, in Joiirn. Bot. .x.xiii. 243 (1885). King, 

 Fie. 48. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 510. King, Fie. t. 58 .\. 



A large tree, quite glabrous, 1. 2^-3^ in., narrowly oval> 



