CXTI. URXTCACEA', 640 



cordifoUum, Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 6 (1847) p. 564. — 

 Pruit ripe May-June. Verk. Pair ; AsJita. 



Koskan: Westprn Ghats, Woodr'ow, JDalzell ^~ Gibsoti. Deccan; Kbandala, pretly 

 common, Graham; Mabablesbwar, Cooke \, H. M. Birdwood. — Distrib. India (Pan- 

 jab, N. India, Assam, Birma, Central India, W. Peninsula); Malayan Peninsula and 

 Archipelago. 



9. Ficus religiosa, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 1059. A large glabrous 

 visually epiphytic tree. Leaves coriaceous, 4-7 by 3-4 in., ovate-rotund, 

 narrowed upwards and the apex produced into a linear-lanceolate tail 

 about I as long as the main portion of the blade (|- as long as the whole 

 blade), entire, base broad, rounded, truncate, sometimes in young leaves 

 cordate, 5-7-nerved ; lateral main nerves about 8 pairs with finely 

 reticulate veuation between ; petioles 3-4 in. long, slender ; stipules 

 minute, ovate, acute. Beceptacles in pairs, axillary, sessile, smooth, 

 depressed-globose, | in. in diam. ; dark-purple when ripe ; basal bracts 

 broad, spreading. Male flowebs lew, only near the mouth of some 

 receptacles (absent in others), sessile. ISepals 3, broadly ovate. Stamen 1 ; 

 anther single, ovate-rotund ; filament short. GtALL and fertile flowers 

 sessile or pedicellate, the gall flowers much more numerous than the 

 fertile females, many of them without perianth. Sepals 5, lanceolate. 

 Style short, lateral; stigma rounded. ¥]. B. I. v. 5, p. 513; Bedd. 

 Plor. Svlvat. t. 314 ; Grab. Cat. p. 190 ; King, Sp. Eic. p. 55, t. 67 A & 

 t. 84, tig- U ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 328 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1899) p. 515 ; Brain, Beng. PI. p. 974 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. V. 3, p. 357. Urostiqma religiosum, Gasp. Bicer. Caprif. (1845) 

 p. 82, t. 7, figs. 1-5; AVight, Icon. t. 1967; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 241. 

 — Pruit ripe May-July. Vern. Piped. 



Universally planted but not wild in the Bombay Presidency. According to 

 Sir George King it is truly wild in the Subhimalayan forests, in Bengal, and in 

 Central India. The tree is held in great veneration by the Hindus. It is extremely 

 destructive to neglected buildings; when once rooted in the joints of the masonry it 

 rapidly disrupts them. 



10. Ficus Arnottiana, Miq. Ann. Mas. Lugd. Bat. v. 3 (1867) 

 p. 287. A glabrous tree or shrub. Leaves subcoriaceous, 3-8 by 

 2-6 in., broadly ovate, narrowed upwards to the shortly caudate- 

 acuminate apex, with entire margins, base usually cordate, never 

 narrowed to the petiole, 7-nerved ; lateral main nerves 5-7 pairs, with 

 minute lucid reticulation between; petioles 2-6 in. long; stipules 

 ovate-lanceolate, 4-1 in. long, caducous, reddish-brown when dried. 

 Beceptacles mostly from the axils of fallen leaves, in pairs or clusters 

 from tubei'cles, sessile or shortly pedunculate, depressed-globose, smooth, 

 l-| in. in diam., purple with greenish dots when ripe ; basal bracts 3, 

 brown, membranous ; peduncles when present j-^-^ in. long. Male 

 FLOWERS few, near the mouth of the receptacles, sessile. Sepals 3, 

 loose, inflated, broadly acuminate, larger than the small subsessile 

 solitary anther. Gall and fertile flowers undistinguishable except 

 by the contents of the ovary, sessile or pedicellate, the perianth gamo- 

 phyllous, lax, toothed at the apex, completely investing the ovary. 

 Style elongate ; stigma flat. PL B. I. v. 5, p. 513 ; King, Sp. Pic. p. 56, 

 t. 68 & t. 84, fig. y ; Trim. PI. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 90 ; Talb. Trees. Bomb, 

 ed. 2, p. 329 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 515 ; 

 Prain, Beng. PI. p. 974. Urostigma cordifoUum, Dalz. & Gibs. p. 242 



