Ficus?^ UrticacecB, 89 



cuspidate or abruptly caudate, thickly membranous, minutely 

 reticulate beneath, base broad rounded on subtruncate, veins 

 many pairs, very slender, basal inconspicuous ; petiole J-f in., 

 rather stout ; stip. i in., ovate, acuminate, membranous, 

 subpersistent ; recepts. solitary or binate, axillary, shortly 

 peduncled, globose, \ in. diam., smooth ; basal bracts 3, broad, 

 acute, connate in a shallow cup ; male fl. few, scattered; sep. 

 3, lanceolate ; stam. i, fil. short, broad, anth. ovate, apiculate; 

 gall and fert. fern. fl. sessile or pcdicelled, sep. 4-5, linear ;, 

 ov. ovoid, style elongate. 



Moist region below looo ft. ; very rare. Only found at Paregoda^ 

 Pasdun Korale. Fl. June. Fr. red. 

 Endemic. 



8. P. retusa, L. Maiii. 129 (1767). Panu-nug-a, S. Itti, T. 



F. nitida^ Thunb. and F. Bcnjamina^ Willd. (non L.), Moon, Cat. 74. 

 Urostigma retusuin, Miq., Thw. Enum. 265. C. P. 14, 2537. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 5 1 1 (not given for Ceylon). Wight, Ic. t. 642. King, 

 Fie. tt. 61, 62, 84, f. P. 



A large umbrageous, evergreen, quite glabrous tree, with a 

 few aerial roots ; 1. shortly petioled, 2-5 in., oval broadly 

 ovate-obovate or rhomboid, obtuse or obtusely cuspidate,, 

 reticulate beneath, base narrowed into the petiole, veins very 

 many pairs, slender, erecto-patent, anastomosing, basal pair 

 rather conspicuous ; petiole \-^ in. ; stip. lanceolate ; recepts. 

 small, sessile, axillary, binate; basal bracts broadly ovate,, 

 obtuse, spreading, persistent ; male fl. scattered ; sep. 3, sub- 

 spathulate ; stam. i, anth. cordate, apiculate; gall and fert. 

 fem. fl. sessile or pedicelled ; sep. 3, oblong or broadly 

 spathulate, largest in the gall fl., ov. smooth ; achene ovoid 

 or obovoid, style slender, stigma elongate. 



Moist and dry regions, in the former extending into the montane 

 region up to 6000 ft. ; common. Fl. August, Sept., also Jan., April. Fr. 

 pale yellow or reddish. 



India, Burma, China, Malaya, New Caledonia. 



One of our commonest and most widely distributed species. All (?) 

 our specimens are referable to the variety F. nitida, Thunh., but vary 

 much in size and breadth of leaf The high montane form has obovate 

 broad very obtuse leaves, and the basal bracts of the fruit very large. 

 The recepts. are often converted into densely hairy galls, twice the size 

 of the normal ones. C. P. 2357 is referred to F. Tsiela, Roxb. by King, 

 but in Herb. Perad. seems rather the present species. 



9. P, nervosa, Heyne in Roth, Nov. Sp. 388 (1821). ILaluma- 

 duwa, S. 



Urostigma niodestiim, Miq. ; Thw. Enum. 266. King, Fie. 53. C. P. 

 2219. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 512. Wight, Ic. t. 660 {F. an^ustifolid). King, Fie. 

 t. 65. 



