156 | ‘URTICACEE. [.Frovs. 
12. F. laminosa, Hardw. in As. Res. vi, 379 ; ex Roxb. Hort). 
Beng. 103 ; Fl. Ind. iii, 531; Madden in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xvii, 
part 1,643; Prain Beng. Pl. 982. F. semocarpa, Mig. ; King 
Sp. Fic. 116, t. 152; F. B. I. v, 523; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 
374 ; Gamble Man. 647 ; Brandis Ind. Trees 606 and 718. F, 
squamosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iti, 531. F. tuberculata, Wall. (not of 
Roxb.) ; Brandis For. Fl. 424 and 577. F. pyrrhocarpa, Kurz.— 
Vern. Chancheri (Garhwal), gur-timla (Ku2:aon). 
A low shrub ; branchlets hirsute. Leaves opposite, crowded at the ends 
of the branches, 3-9 in. long, linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, entire, 
smooth, rarely scabrid on upper surface, smooth or scaberulous and 
rarely hispid beneath ; base narrowed, 3-nerved ; main lateral nerves 
6-8 pairs ; petioles 4-1 in. long, pubescent ; stipules in pairs 1-3 in., 
ovat , acuminate, nearly glabrous, persistent. Receptacles shortly 
Stalked, solitary in the axils, or in short leafless panicles from the old 
wood, subglobose, 3-1 in. in diam.; base constricted, 8-10-ribbed, 
warted and hispid and with scattered bracts on the sides ; umbilicus 
large ; peduncles }-4 in., pubescent; basal bracts 3, triangular, 
deciduous. Matz-flowers: Stamen 1. Perianth of fem. flowers none 
or obscure. Ovary of gall flowers smooth; style short, lateral. 
Achenes rhomboid, style very long, hairy. 
Dehra Dun and eastwards along the Sub-Himalayan tracts, usually by 
shady streams and often in the crevices of partially submerged rocks. 
The receptacles ripen during the cold season. DzsrriB.: Outer 
Himalaya from the Jumna to Bhutan, in sandy and rocky streams, 
also in Assam, the Khasia Hills and Burma. Closely allied to F. 
hispida, of which it may, as suggested by King, be a much modified 
form brought about by the peculiar conditions of its habitat. There 
is a coloured drawing of this shrub (plate 65) in Hardwicke’s unpub- 
lished collection of drawings of Indian plants, a copy of which will 
be found in the botanical library at the Natural Hist. Museum. 
Colonel Hardwicke mentions that the villagers in Garhwal feed their 
cows on the branches and leaves of this shrub. 
13. F. Cunia, Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb. Fl. Ind. iti, 561 ; Brandis 
For. Fl. 421 ; Ind. Trees 606 ; King Sp. Fic. 101, t. 126; F. B. I. 
v, 023; Watt E. D.; Comm. Prod. Ind. 538 ; Kanjildl For. Fl. 
(ed. 2), 375 ; Gamble Man. 648 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 982 ; Collett Fl. 
Siml. 460. F. conglomerata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 559.—Vern. 
Jarhphali (Hind.), khain, kheina (Dehra Dun), khenna (Bijnor), 
khurhur (Oudh). 
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