152 URTI CACEE. [Ficus. 
acuminate apex forming about } of the blade; margins entire, sub- 
undulate; base broad, truncate, slightly narrowed towards the 
- petiole, rarely subcordate, usually 5-nerved; main lateral nerves 
3-6 pairs, prominent only in the young leaves; petiole 23-3} in., 
flattened or channelled above; stipules }-1 in., ovate-lanceolate. — 
Receptacles sessile in pairs, axillary and from the old leaf scars, $ in. 
in diam., globular and not depressed at the apex, smooth and whitish 
and with dark spots when young, nearly black when ripe; basal 
bracts 3, small, rotund. Maire FLOWERS few, only near the mouth 
of the receptacle. Sepals 3, spathulate. Stamen 1, filament about 
as long as the anther. Ovary of gall flower smooth, usually obovoid. 
Achene minutely tubercled, mucilaginous ; style elongate, stigma cla- 
vate. 
Forests of Dehra Dun and Saharanpur and eastwards along the Sub- 
Him. forest tracts of Rohilkhand N. Oudh and Gorakhpur, also in 
Bundelkhand and Merwara. Often planted in avenues, but a de- 
structive epiphyte in forests. The young leaves, which are red, 
appear in March, and the receptacles ripen during May and June. Dts- 
TRIB. : Outer Himalayan ranges from the Chenab, ascending to 5,000 
ft. ; also in Assam Bengal and southwards through Central W. and 
S. India, extending to Burma and the Malay Peninsula and Islands. 
The fruit is eaten, and the foliage is much used as fodder for cattle and 
elephants. The soft spongy wood is pinkish-white. The tree is closely 
allied to F. religiosa which it much resembles. 
8. F. Arnottiana, Mig. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii, 287 ; King Sp. 
Ficus 56, t. 68 and t. 84; F. B. I. v.,513 ; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 
371 ; Gamble Man. 638 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 980 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 
649 ; Brandis Ind. Trees 602. 
A small glabrous tree or a shrub, often epiphytic. Leaves subcoriaceous, 
3:8 in. long, broadly ovate, narrowed upwards to the shortly caudate- 
acuminate apex, margins entire; base usually cordate, never nar- 
rowed into the petiole, 7-nerved ; main lateral nerves 5-7 pairs with 
fine lucid reticulations between; petioles 2-6 in. long; stipules 
ovate-lanceolate, $-1 in. long, caducous, reddish-brown when dried. 
Receptacles mostly from the axils of fallen leaves, in pairs or clusters 
from tubercles, sessile or shortly stalked, depressed-globose, smooth, 
}-2 in. in diam., purple with greenish dots when ripe; basal bracts 3, 
brown, membranous. MALE FLOWERS few, near the mouth of the 
receptacles, sessile. Sepals 3, loose, inflated, broadly acuminate, 
larger than the small subsessile solitary anther. GALL AND FERTILE 
FLOWERS undistinguishable except by the contents of the ovary, 
