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Plants of the Punjab. 
TREES WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE SimpLE LEAVES. 
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PETALS NONE. 
Fious, Jurocn Mitxy ; Fruir a Hontow Fiesuy VEssEL, IN WHICH 
FLOWERS AND SEEDS ARE CONTAINED. 
Ficus bengalensis, 
Banyan, 
Bor, Bargat. 
UrRtTICcCACEA. 
We. T:. v4.99: 
The Plains to 4,000 ft. 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
Ficus elastica, 
URTICACES. 
F. B. I. v. 508. 
The Plains. 
Ficus retusa, 
URTICACE. 
Dee eke 
The Plains. 
Ficus. infectoria, 
War, jangli pipl. 
UrRTICACER. 
F. B. I. v. 515. 
Salt Range, the Plains. 
Ficus Rumphii, 
Pulak, pilkhan. 
UrRTICACER. 
He. Lv. 512; 
The Plaing to 5,000 ft. 
Ficus religiosa, 
Pipal. 
Urricacna. 
61. y. D189. 
The Plains to 5,000 ft. 
Valley below Simla 
(Collett). 
Baluchistan. 
Ficus clavata, 
large, rooting from branches, sometimes epiphytal 
when young, young shoots velvety ; leaves leathery, 
ovate to orbicular, edges smooth, nerves prominent, 
stalk of leaf 4-2 in., not jointed to blade, stipules 2-1 in., 
leathery ; fruit round, sessile, in pairs, red, velvety, size 
of a small cherry, with 3 broad leathery smooth leaf- 
like bracts at the base. 
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large, often epiphytic when young; leaves 3-12 
in., dark green, much longer than broad, glossy, leaf 
stalk 1-24 in., not jomted to the blade, stipule single, 
coloured, almost half as long as the leaf, fruit sessile in 
pairs, ovate, oblong, greenish, yellow, about } in. long. 
large, aerial roots few; leaves 2-4 in., leathery, 
broadly ovate, leaf stalk 4-3 in., stipules narrow, } in. 
long ; fruit small sessile in pairs, $ in. diam., yellow or 
reddish bracts at base, broad, ovate. 
Leaf Stalk jownted to Blade. 
small, all parts smooth, somet'mes sending down a 
few aerial roots ; leaves shining, on long slender stalks 
abruptly pointed, stalk 13-2 in., stipules 4 in. broad, 
ovate, fruit in sessile pairs, round, when ripe } in. diam., 
white tinged with red, dotted, basal bracts 8, minute. 
often epiphytal, all parts smooth ; leaves minutely 
warty above, broadly ovate, leaf stalk 23-33 in., sti- 
pules ovate, $-1 in. ; fruit sessile in pairs, globose, smooth, 
when -young whitish with dark spots, when ripe nearly 
black, 4 in. diam., basal bracts 8, round, smooth. 
usually epiphytal, smooth ; leaves leathery, shining 
above, base broad, point long, leaf stalk 3-4 in., slender ; 
fruit sessile in pairs, smooth, depressed, spheroidal, dark 
purple when ripe, } in. diam., basal bracts 38, broad, 
spreading, leathery. 
see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate, Simple. 
