Frevs.] URTICACE. 153 
sessile or pedicelled. Perianth gamophyllous, lax, toothed at the 
apex, completely investing the ovary. Style elongate, stigma flat. 
Rajputana, in the neighbourhood of Ajmer, on rocky ground (Brandis). 
Distrip.: Outer ranges of W. Himalaya in Jaunsar Garhwal and 
Kumaon, up to 3,000 ft., and from Chota Nagpur through Central W. 
and S. India to Ceylon. The leaves resemble those of F. Rumphii, 
but they are never narrowed at the base into the petiole. 
9. F. infectoria, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 551 (excl. syn, Rheede) (not of 
Willd.) ; Brandis For. Fl. 414 (excl. syn.) ; Ind. Trees 602 ; King 
Sp. Fic. 60, t. 75; F. B. I. v, 515 ; Watt BE. D, ; Comm. Prod. Ind. 
538 ; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 372 ; Gamble Man. 645 ; Prain Beng. 
Pl. 981 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 651. F. Lacor, Buch.-Ham. in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. XV, 150.—Vern. Khabar, pakhar, pilkhan. 
A large spreading deciduous fast-growing glabrous tree, often epiphytic 
in early life and sometimes sending down a few aerial roots from the 
trunk or branches; bark greenish-grey, smooth. Leaves membran- 
ous, 34-5 in. long, ovate or ovate-oblong, shortly and rather abruptly 
acuminate; margins entire, subundulate; base usually rounded, 
slightly cordate or sometimes narrowed or acute, 3-nerved, main 
lateral nerves 5-7 pairs, not very prominent; petioles 14-2} in., 
sometimes indistinctly jointed with the blade; stipules about } in., 
long, broadly ovate, acute, pubescent. Receptacles axillary, in pairs 
sessile, globose, } in. in diam., whitish flushed with red and 
dotted when ripe; basal bracts 3 minute, ovate-rotund. MALE 
FLOWERS few, sessile near the mouth of the receptacles. Sepals 
4 or 5. Stamen 1; anther broadly ovate filament short. Perianth 
of gall and fertile flowers as in the male. Style of gall flowers short ; 
- of the fertile female flowers long, stigma elongate. 
Forests of Dehra Dun and Saharanpur and eastwards along the Sub- 
Himalayan tracts of Rohilkhand and N. Oudh, also in Bundelkhand. 
It is not common anywhere wild, but is occasionally met with near 
villages asa planted tree. Disrr1B.: Throughout India, extending 
from the outer Himalayan ranges to Ceylon, Burma, Malay Peninsula 
and China. The wood is used chiefly for making charcoal, and the 
young shoots are eaten in curries. The bark yields a fairly good 
fibre, and the tree is much lopped to supply fodder for cattle and 
elephants. 
Var. 1. Lambertiana, King Sp. Fic. 63, t. 76; F. B. I. V, 516 ; Kanjilal 
For. Fl. (ed. 2) 373; Prain Beng. Pl. 981; Cooke Fl. Bomb. it, 65]. 
F. Lambertiana, Miq.—Leaves coriaceous; base broad, rounded 
