CXVl. URTICACE.'E. 651 



(1847) p. 566; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 241.— Fruit ripe Apr.-Oct. Vern. 

 Pipri. 



Stocks without locality in Herb. Kew. ! Western Peninsula from the Konkan 

 southwards. Widely planted as a roadside or avenue tree, for which it is well 

 adapted. — Distrib. India (Central Provinces, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



13. Ficus infectoria, lioxh. Fl. Lid. v. 3 (1832) p. 551 (exchul. 

 Syn. Eheede) {not of Willd.). A large spreading deciduous fast-growing 

 tree, all parts glabrous ; bark grey, smooth, scaly. Leaves membranous, 

 3|-5 by 2-2| in., ovate or ovate-oblong, shortly and rather abruptly 

 acuminate, with entire, subundulate margins; base usually rounded, 

 slightly cordate, or sometimes narrowed or acute, 3-nerved ; lateral 

 main nerves 5-7, not very prominent; petioles Ij-S^ in. long, some- 

 times indistinctly jointed with the blade; stipules about | in. long, 

 broadly ovate, acute, pubescent. Eeceptacles axillary, in pairs, sessile, 

 globose, \ in. in diam., whitish, flushed wdth red and dotted when ripe; 

 basal bracts 3, ovate-rotund, minute. Male flowers few, sessile near 

 the mouth of the receptacles. Stamen 1 ; anther broadly ovate ; 

 filament short. Sepals 4 or 5. Gall and fertile eloavers : Perianth 

 as in the male. Style of fertile female flowers long, of the gall flowers 

 short ; stigma elongate. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 515 ; Grab. Cat. p. 191 ; 

 Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Svlvat. p. ccxxii (exclud. syn.)- Wight, Icon, 

 t. 665 ; King, Sp. Fie. p. 60, t. 75 & t. 84, fig. T, 2 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. 

 V. 4, p. 92 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 329 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1899) p. 515 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 975; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. V. 3, p. 355. Ficus lacor, Buch.-Ham. in Linn. Trans, v. 15 

 (1827) p. 150. Urostigma infectorium, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. v. 1, part 2 

 (1859) p. 339 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 241.— Vern. Bassdri ; Pipli. 



Konkan : Law !, Stocks !, Balzell ^- Gihsoti,. Kanaka : Talbot. Often planted along 

 roadsides in the Presidency, but not vei'y common in a wild state. — Distrib. India 

 (plains and lower hills, Bengal, Assam, Birma, E. and W. Peninsulas) ; Ceylon, 

 Malaya. 



The oldest name for this plant is Fictis lacor, Buch.-Ham. (1825), for although 

 Roxburgh has published Ficus infectoria as a species in Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 66, he 

 has there founded the species on Elieede, Hort. Mai. v. 3, p. 64, which is Fictos 

 Tsjakela. 



Var. 1. Lambertiana, King, Sp. Fie. p. 63, t. 76. Leaves more 

 coriaceous, the base broad, rounded, emarginate or subcordate (rarely 

 narrowed) ; receptacles ^-f in. in diam. on pubescent peduncles i- -|- in. 

 long. Fl. B. I. V. 5, p. 516 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 975. Ficus Lambertiana 

 (sp.), Miq. Ann. Mus. v. 3, p. 286. Urostigma Lambei-tianum, Miq. in 

 Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 6 (1847) p. 565 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 241. 



Konkan: Law I, Stocks'., Lambert. Kanaka: Talbot; on the Kala naddi near 

 Jagalbet, Eitchie, 685 ! 



Yae. 2. Wiglitiana, King, Sp. Fie. p. 63, t. 77. Leaves smaller than 

 in the type (often only 2^ in. long), narrowed at the base. Eeceptacles 

 large for the size of the leaves, on glabrous or pubescent peduncles 

 about \ in. long. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 516. Ficus Wightiana (sp.). Wall. 

 Cat. 4540; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. p. ccxxii. 



Kanaka : southern parts of N. Kanara, Talbot. 



14. Ficus callosa, Willd. in Mem. Acad. Berl. (1798) p. 102. 

 A large evergreen tree 40-60 ft. high, with pearly-white juice and 



