Ficvs.] -. URTICACER. 159 
cent, deciduous. Receptacles axillary, solitary, 3-1 in. in diam., sub- 
globese or pyriform, pubescent, yellow when ripe ; base constricted ; 
bracts acute, deciduous ; peduncle 4-1 in. MALE FLOWERS on hairy 
. pedicels. Sepals 4-5, lanceolate, hairy. GALL FLOWERS sessile or 
| stalked. Perianth deeply 5-fid. Ovary ovoid, smooth; style very 
short, lateral, stigma dilated. Perianth of fem. flowers as in galls. 
Achenes trigonous, granular; style subterminal, long, hairy, stigma 
bifid. 
Dehra Dun, and in the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Rohilkhand and N. 
Oudh, alsoin Merwara. The new foliage is renewed during March and 
April and the figs ripen from June to Oct. Disrrip.: Central and 
N. W. India, Outer Himalaya from Nepal westwards, ascending to 
5,000 ft., and from the Suliman and Salt ranges to Chitral, Egypt and 
Abyssinia. This species much resembles the European fig (F. carica), 
and is generally regarded as its Indian representative. It is often 
cultivated in N. W. India, but chiefly on the hills where the fruit 
produced is of better quality. The leaves are much used as cattle 
fodder. 
17. F. Roxburghii, Wall. Cat. 4508 ; Brandis For. Fl. 422 ; 
Ind. Trees 609 ; King Sp. Ficus 168, t. 211 and frontispiece ; 
FP. B. I. v, 534 ; Watt BE. D. ; Kanjilal For. Fl. (ed. 2), 377 ; Gamble 
Man. 649 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 461; / rain Beng. Pl. 983. ¥. macro- 
phylla, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 556 (not of Desf.).—Vern. Trimmal, 
timla. 
A low spreading tree 10-30 ft. high ; trunk short, bark grey or brown, 
warty ; branchlets few, stout, hollow. Leaves 5-15 in. long, broadly 
ovate or rounded ; margins entire or toothed, mucronate, glabrous 
or glabrescent above, softly pubescent beneath ; base usually deeply 
cordate, strongly 5-7-nerved ; main lateral nerves 3-6 pairs, promi- 
nent on both surfaces, nervules nearly transverse ; petioles 1-4 in. ; 
stipules 3-1] in., ovate-lanceolate, pubescent. Receptacles 8-12- 
ribbed, turbinate, in clusters on short leafless branchlets from 
low down on the trunk, 2} in. across or larger, pubescent or 
glabrous, russet-brown or purplish and spotted when ripe ; umbilicus 
large, triangular ; peduncle pubescent, #-14 in. long. Matz flowers : 
Sepals large, inflated, broadly imbricate. Stamens 2, rarely 3; 
filaments long, stout. Gat flowers: Perianth 2-3-lobed. Style 
short, subterminal, stigma dilated. Frm. flowers subsessile or 
stalked. Perianth as in gall flowers. Achenes granulate, viscid ; 
style long, lateral, curved, hairy, stigma cylindric. 
