Ficus.'] UrticacecB. 93 



cuspidate, base broad, rounded, emarginate or subcordate, 

 basal pair of veins very short, recepts. \-\ in. diam., ped. \-\ 

 in., puberulous. 



Low country ; rare. Pasdun Korale ; Foot of Ritigala, N. C. Prov. 

 Var. /3 moist and intermediate country to 6000 ft. ; Fl. March-Sept. Fr. 

 white or pink when ripe, and dotted. 



The leaves vary much in size ; in the hills they are often much smaller, 

 and the plant is then probably F. Wightiajta, Wall. (King, Fie. t. T]\ 

 The bark is chewed with betel. 



F. Lacox, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. (1827) 150, seems the earliest 

 name for this species. 



15. r. callosa, IVtlld. in Act. Acad. Berol. 102 (1798). Wal- 

 g-ona, 6. 



F. cinerasccns, Thw. Enum. 266. King, Fie. 64. C. P. 2562. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 516. King, Fie. t. 85 and 84, f. v. 2. 



A large evergreen tree, 40-60 ft.; branchlets hoary, 

 warted ; 1. 5-8 in. (on barren shoots up to 12 in. or more), 

 oval or oblong, entire, obtusely cuspidate, very coriaceous, 

 margin recurved entire, base broad, rounded or narrowed 

 into the petiole, pale, smooth and shining above, beneath 

 pale, pubescent when young, scaberulous when old, and 

 strongly reticulate, veins strong beneath, lateral 5-12 pairs, 

 spreading and arched, basal short, slender above ; petiole 

 i|-if in. ; stip. h in. or shorter, ovate-lanceolate, pubescent; 

 recepts. solitary, axillary, subglobose, top slightly depressed, 

 I in. diam., pubescent and scabrid, ped. f in. ; bracts 

 on the top of the ped. 3, broadly ovate ; fl. mixed with 

 many ovate-lanceolate bracteoles ; male rather numerous, 

 scattered, pedicelled, sep. 3, spathulate ; stam. i or 2, fil, short, 

 slender, anth. small, ovate ; gall and fert. fern. fl. similar, 

 perianth deeply 3-4-cleft, segm. broadly lanceolate, style 

 elongate, 2-fid. ; achene obovoid. 



Low country up to 2000 ft. ; rather rare. Hantane ; Peradeniya ; 

 Kurunegala ; Maturata. Fl. Sept. Fr. yellow. 

 S. India, Andaman Is., Burma, Java. 



16. r. heterophylla, L. f. Siippl. Plant. 442 (1781). Wal- 



Thw. Enum. 266. King, Fie. 75. C. P. 2228. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 518. Wight, Ic. 659. King, Fie. t. 94. 



An evergreen creeping or ascending shrub ; branches 

 pubescent ; 1. polymorphous, ovate or orbicular-ovate to 

 lanceolate, acuminate, entire or 3-many-lobed and repand- 

 toothed, membranous, scabrid on both surfaces, base obtuse 

 rounded or cordate, veins 4-8 pairs, arched, sometimes 

 palmately disposed, basal 3-5 ; petiole \-2\ in. ; stip. \-\ in., 



