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154 URTICACE. | _[ Fieus. 
emarginate or subcordate; receptacles stalked.—Dehra Dun and 
Siwalik range. Distrip.: W. C. and S. India. 
Var. 2. Wightiana, King. Sp. Ficusl.c. ; F. B. I. V.,516 ; F. Wightiana 
Wall.—Leaves sigaMer, often under 24 in. long, narrowed to the base ; 
receptacles stalked, } in. long, large in proportion to the size of leaves, 
pubescent. —Southern edge of gangetic Plain. Distris.: W. and 
S. India. 
10. F. heterophylla, Linn. f. Suppl. 442; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 
632 ; Brandis For. Fl. 424; Ind. Trees 606 ; King Sp. Ficus 75, 
t. 94; F. B. I. v, 518; Watt H. D.; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2) 373 ; 
Gamble Man. 646 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 981 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 652. 
F. repens, Willd. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 111, 535 ; Brandis For. Fl. Lc. 
A shrub, often creeping along the ground or over rocks; branchlets 
pubescent. Leaves alternate, polymorphous, petioled, membranous, 
2-5 in. long, ovate or orbicular-ovate to lanceolate, more or less 
acuminate, entire or 3-many-lobed, scabrous on both surfaces ; 
margins coarsely toothed or repand-dentate ; base rounded or cordate, 
3-5-nerved ; main lateral nerves 4-8 pairs, arched, or in much-lobed 
leaves palmate ; petioles 4-24 in. ; istipules 2 to each leaf, 1-4 in. long, 
ovate, scarious. Receptacles stalked, solitary, axillary, * globose to 
pyriform, more or less hispid, scabrid or warted when young, nearly 
smooth and orange-yellow when ripe, always with a more or less 
prominent mammilate partially open umbilicus; peduncle 3-1 in. 
long; basal bracts minute, triangular glabrous. Perianth of all the 
flowers 3-4-cleft. MALE FLOWERS ; Stamen 1. GALL FLOWERS: Ovary 
ovoid, smooth; style short, lateral. FERTILE FLOWERS: Perianth 
hyaline, viscid, tubercled. Achenes subglobose; style long, lateral, 
stigma cylindric. 
Banks of rivers and wet places in Dehra Dun, and eastwards along the 
Sub-Himalayan tracts to Gorakhpur, also in Bundelkhand, ete. 
Distris.: Throughout the hotter parts of India and in Ceylon, 
extending to the Malay Peninsula and Islands. 
The rough rust-coloured bark is used medicinally, and the fruit is said 
to be eaten. King mentions F. scabrella Roxb. and F. repens Willd. 
as representing the two most prevalent forms of this polymorphous 
shrub. In the former the leaves are shortly petioled, narrow and 
never lobed, and the receptacles are shortly pedicelled, globular or 
pyriform. The latter has broader leaves, lobed or not and with 
petioles over 1 in. long, and the pedicels of the pyriform receptacles 
