054 CXTI. rETICACE.F. 



easily overlooked). Acheues ovoid ; sfcvle lateral ; stigma cyliadric, 

 tubular. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 522; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. 

 p. ccxxiv ; King, Sp. Fie. p. 116, tt. 154 & 155 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, 

 p. 94 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 330 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12(1899) p. 515; Prain, Beng. PL p. 97G ; Watt, Diet. Eeon. 

 Prod. V. 3, p. 354. Ficits opposififolia, Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4 (1805) p. 1151 ; 

 Wight, loon. t. 638 ; Grab. Cat. p. 191. Covellia oppositifolia, Gasp. 

 Eicer. Caprif. (1845) p. 85; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 243. Covellia diemonum, 

 Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 7 (1848) p. 462 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 244. Ficus dcemomim. Keen, in Vabl, Eiium. Pi. v. 2 (1806) p. 198 ; 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. v. 3 (1832) p. 662 (d^emonu) ; Grab. Cat. p. 192 ; Wigbt, 

 Icon. t. 641. — Fruit ripe Apr.-July. Vern. Kdla-umhar; Dolrda. 



KoNKAN : Stocks I, Woodrow; Bombay, Graham. Deccan : Khanrlala, Graham. 

 S. M. Country: Rrnnghat, Riichie, 687 '.; Belgaiim, Rifchie, 1379! Kanaka: banks 

 of rivers and moist situations in N. Kanara, common in the moist forests near Karwar 

 and along the coast, Talbot. — Distrib. More or less throughout India ; Ceylon. 



18. Ficus glomerata, Eoxh. Cor. PI. v. 2 (1798) p. 13, t. 123. 

 An evergreen tree 50-00 ft. bigb ; young slioots glabrous, pubescent or 

 scaberulous. Leaves 3-6 by 1^-2| in., ovate-oblong or elliptic-lanceo- 

 late, tapering to a bluntisb point at the apex, with entire margins, 

 glabrous on botb surfaces when mature, base acute or rounded, 3-nerved ; 

 lateral main nerves 4-6 pairs ; petioles g-l^ in. long, glabrous; stipules 

 1^ in. long, ovate-lanceolate, scarious, pubescent. Receptacles shortly 

 pedunculate, on short leafless warted branches often only a few inches 

 long whicli issue from the stem and larger branches, much contracted 

 at the base wlien young, subgloboso, ])yriform or subturbinate, li in. 

 across, smooth or pubescent, red when ripe, with depressed umbilicus 

 (edible but usually full of worms); basal bracts 3, ovate-triangular; 

 male, feniale, and gall flowers together in one receptacle, the male 

 flowers forming a zone near the mouth, the fertile female flowers 

 forming a layer near the walls of the receptacle, and the gall flowers a 

 more internal layer. Male flowehs sessile. Sepals 3-4, membranous, 

 inflated, enveloping the 2 elongate ovate anthers ; filaments connate. 

 Gall elowers pedicellate. Perianth gamophyllous, irregularly toothed, 

 covering only the base of the rough ovoid ovary. Style lateral, elongate ; 

 stigma clavate. Fertile elowers subsessile. Perianth gamopbvllous, 

 with 4 or 5 long lanceolate teeth enveloping the small minulely luber- 

 culate achene. Style subterminal ; stigma clavate. Fl. B. I. v. 5, 

 p. 535 ; Grab. Cat. p. ]90 ; AVight, Icon. t. 667; Bedd. For. Man. in 

 Flor. Sylvat. p. ccxxiv; King, Sp. Fie. p. 173, t. 218 A; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. 

 V. 4, p. 96 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 331 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1899) p. 516 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 978 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. V. 3, p. 351. Covellia glomerata, Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 

 Bot. V. 7 (1848) p. 465 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 243.— Fruit ripe at different 

 times of the year. Vern. Umhar. 



Common throughout the Presidency near villages, along roadsides and near 

 streams and rivers. — Distkib. Throughout India; Ceylon. 



Ficus scandens, Eoxb. Ilort. Beng. (1814) p. 65. A large rooting 

 climber, a native of the Subhimalayas, Bebar, Khasia Ilills, and Birma, 

 occasionally cultivated in gardens. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 526 ; King, Sp. 



