052 CXTI. URTICACJO.T. 



without aiirial roots ; branchlets hoary, warted. Leaves 4-9 by 2-5| in. 

 (in barren shoots often 12 in. long or more), of a rigid hard coriaceous 

 texture, elliptic, obtuse, or with a short blunt acumen, with entire 

 slightly recurved margins, smooth and sliiniug above, beneath pale, 

 pubescent when young, scaberulous but glabrous when old, strongly 

 reticulate, base broad, I'ouiided or sometimes slightly narrowed to the 

 petiole, 3-5-nerved ; lateral main nerves 5-12 pairs, thin, but prominent 

 below, as are the reticulations; petioles 1|— 2 in. long; stipules ovate- 

 lanceolate, nearly | in. long, pubescent. Eeceptacl?s peduncnlate, 

 solitary, axillary, subglobose, when ripe yellow and 1-1 1 in. in diam., 

 slightly depressed at top and contracted at the base into a sliDrt stalk, 

 at the junction of which with the peduncle are 3 broadly ovate pubescent 

 bracts ; peduncle | in. long, pubescent or scabrid ; flowers intermixed 

 with numerous ovate-lanceolate bracteoles which rise from the interior 

 of the receptacle along with them. Male tloweus rather numerous, 

 scattered, pedicellate. Sepals 3, spathulate. Stamens 1 or 2 ; filaments 

 short, slender; anthers small, ovate. Gall and rERTiuo flowers 

 similar. Perianth deeply 3-4-cleft ; segments broadly lanceolate. Style 

 elongate ; stigma deeply 2-fid. liipe achenes obo\oid. Y\. B. 1. v. 5, 

 p. 516 ; King, Sp. Yic. p. 64, t. 85 & t. 84, fig. V, 2 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. 

 V. 4, p. 93 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 330; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1899) p. 515. — Fruit ripe June- July. 



Kanaka : N. Ivanara, Talbot, 414 !, Woodrow ; Uslieli (N. Ivanara), L'i/chie I — 

 DiSTRiB. India (liirma, Andaiuans, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Java. 



15. Ficus heterophylla, Liim.f. Siq-tpl. (1781) p. 442. A shrub, 

 sometimes creeping along the ground or over rocks ; branchlets shortly 

 pubescent. Leaves polymorphous, petiolate, membranous, ovate or 

 orbicular-ovate to lanceolate, more or less acuminate, entire or 3-njany- 

 lobed, both surfaces scabrous, the margins irregidarly and coarsely 

 toothed or repand-dentate, base rounded or cordate, 3-5-nerved ; lateral 

 main nerves 4-8 pairs, arched, or in much-lobed leaves palmate ; petioles 

 1-21 in, long; stipules 2 to each leaf, J-^ in. long, ovate, scarious. 

 Keceptacles peduncnlate, solitary, axillary, spherical to pyriform, more 

 or less hispid scabrid or warted when young, wfien ripe nearly smooth, 

 dark-orange, always \\\i\\ a more or less prominent mammillate um- 

 bilicus which is imperfectly closed by bracts ; peduncles ^-1 in. long ; 

 bracts basal or high up on the peduncle, minute, triangular, glabrous. 

 Perianth of all flowers 3-4-cleft. Male vlowkks : Stamen 1. Gall 

 flowers: Ovary ovoid, smooth ; style short, lateral. Pehtile flowers : 

 Perianth hyaline, viscid, tuberculate. Achenes subglobose. Style long, 

 lateral ; stigma cylindric. PI. B. I. v. 5, p. 518 ; Urah. Cat. p. 191 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 243; Wight, Icon. t. 659 ; King, Sp. Pic. p. 75, t. 94 ; 

 Trim. PI. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 93; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 330; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. jSat. v. 12 (1899) p. 515; Prain, Bcng. PI. p. 975; 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 353. Fims aculiluki, Micj. in J look. 

 Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 7 (1848) p. 227; JJalz. & Gibs. p. 243.— Priiit 

 rijje May-June. 



Throughout the Presidency along the banks of streams and rivers. Konkan : 

 Sioc/csl, Law'. ; Miilabar IIill (Bombay), Graham, Dahiil. Deccan : Poona, Woodrow. 

 B. M. CuiNTnY : IJelgaum, liilchie, 1377 I Kanaua: N. Kanara, 7W/W.— Distrib. 

 India (throughout tlie hotter parts, usually near water) ; Ceylon, Malay Islands. 



