CXYI. UR ncAC'E.T:. 6o5 



Fie. p. 129, t. 162; Woodr. iu Journ. Bomb. Xat. v. 12 (1899) p. 515 ; 

 Prain, Beng. PI. p. 977. 



Ficus elastica, Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 65. A large glabrous 

 usually epiphjtic tree, with aerial roots and large coriaceous, shining, 

 closely parallel-nerved leaves 5-10 in. long, with pink stipules reaching 

 sometimes 6 in. long. The receptacles are enclosed while young by 

 hooded involucres which fall off, leaving a saucer-shaped basal cup under 

 the receptacle. The Indian Caoutchouc Tree, a native o£ the outer 

 Himalaya, Assam, Khasia Hills, Birma, and the Malayan Archipelago, 

 sometimes grown as an ornamental tree in gardens in Bombay and Poona. 

 n. B. I. V. 5, p. .508 ; Grab. Cat. p. 190 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 79 ; 

 King, Sp. Fie. p. 45, t. 54 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 515, & Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 454; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 350. 



licus carica, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 1059. A middle-sized deciduous 

 tree said to be indigenous in Syria and Palestine, with cordate 3-5-nerved 

 dentate and more or less deeply lobed leaves 4-8 in. long, grown for 

 its edible fruit. It is not very extensively grown in the Bombay 

 Presidency, the area under its cultivation being about 300 acres, most 

 of which are in the Poona Collectorate. It is grown in N.W. India, 

 largely cultivated in Afghanistan and Beluchistan as well as in S. Europe. 

 Grab. Cat. p. 191; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 80; Brandis, For. Fl. 

 p. 418 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. l^at. v. 12 (1899) p. 515, & Gard. in 

 Ind. ed. 5, p. 451 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 347. The Fig.— 

 Veen. Anjir. 



Excluded Species of Ficus. 



FICUS BENJAMINA, Linn. Mantiss. (1767) p. 129; Fl. B. I, v. 5, p. 508; Xing, 

 Sp. Fie. p. 43, t. 52 & t. 83, fig. H ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 346. Urostiffma 

 Benjamineum, Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 6 (1847) p. 583 ; Dalz. & Gibs, 

 p. 242. ? Ficus striata, Eoth, Nov. PI. Sp. (1821) p. 387. 



The only apparent authority for the existence of this tree in the Bombay Presidency 

 is the statement iu Dalzell & Gibson's ' Bombay Flora ' (J. c.) that Roth's specimens 

 of Ficus striata, which Sir G. King considers doubtfully synonymous with F. Ben- 

 jamina, were received from the S. Maratha Country, but I can find no evidence that 

 this was so. Sir George King has never seen a wild specimen from W. India, nor 

 has the tree been found wild in the Bombay Presidency either by Talbot or Woodrow. 



17. ANTIARIS, Leschen. 

 Evei'green trees. Leaves alternate, bifarious, penninerved, entire or 

 serrate ; stipules small, connate, caducous. Flowers monoecious, the 

 males crowded on the surface of an axillary pedunculate receptacle sur- 

 rounded by confluent imbricating bracts, the females minute, solitary, 

 in a pyriform involucre of many confluent bracts. Male plowers : 

 Sepals 3-4, narrowly spathulate, imbricate. Stamens 3-8, Pistillode 0. 

 Female flowers : Perianth 0. Ovary adnate to the involucre ; ovule 

 pendulous ; style-arms 2, subulate, recurved. Fruit fleshy ; pericarp 

 confluent with the receptacle. Seed exalbuminous ; testa bard ; embryo 

 subglobose ; cotyledons equal, fleshy; radicle small, superior. — Disxeib. 

 Species 5 or 6, Indian, Malayan, and Australian. 



1. Antiaris toxicaria, Leschen. in Ann. Mus. Par. v. 10 (1810) 

 p. 478. A very tall tree reaching 250 ft. in height; trunk often but- 

 tressed ; bark dark-grey, pustular. Leaves 3-6 by 1^-2| in., elliptic- 



