125. MOKACE.E. [8. Ficus. 



margin often waved, base cuneate, straight rounded or slightly retuse, 

 lateral basal nerves like the secondaries or more oblique, see. n. 

 variable in number 5-10, looping within the margin, nervules finely 

 reticulate. Recepts sessile or stalked, glabrous pubescent or tomen- 

 tose, •25--3" or sometimes -o--!" sub-globose but without the broad 

 base of Rumjihii and tsiela, whitish or flushed with red, basal bracts 

 free ovate or orbicular spreading, -07". 



A common tig. Champaraii to Pui-neah ! Sant. Par. ! All districts; of C'hota- 

 Nagpur, wild and planted ! Pari ! Orissa States, common, Cooper. No doubt in 

 all districts of the province. Recepts Dec- June. 



A very variable tree. Bark pale. Buds usually pubescent. Leaves often dis- 

 tinctly pellucid-punctulate. very rarely points raised into small tubercles when 

 dry as in Eumphii and Uiela. not nearly so closely nerved as in glabella and always 

 with much longer petioles than that species. Base seldom subcordate. Sec. n. 

 usually pale and conspicuous above when fresh with evident intramarginal loops. 

 Petioles l-5-3"5" slender. Stipules under 1" caducous. Tepals 3 or often 4 or 5 

 linear or lanceolate, filament and anther short and broad. 



The following varieties occur in our area : 



(a) infectoria proper. Glabrous with recepts sessile. 



Roxhtirgh says that '" the bark is brownish ash-colour. L. oblong-cordate, waved., 

 glabrousj 4-6", with few veins. Stipules about 2" long, slender, grooved, with a 

 coloured gland round their apices (I think petioles are meant). Fruit sessile, 

 white, size of a pea." This form is rare. 



(/^) var. Lambertiana, King. 8yn. F. Lambertiana, Mtq. 



Pubescent on the pedicels and often recepts. Recepts pedicelled. 



It is described in the F.B.I, as having " coriaceous leaves, base broad rounded 

 emarginate or subcordate, receptacles '3-'5" diam., pedicel pubescent •2-'3"." 

 Under it I include the following forms : — 



a. Buds puberulous. L. 3-4", oblong to ovate, not at all cordate, sec. n. 5-8. 

 Recepts "i-S" (in Jan.), glabrous except the base and the stout pedicel, 

 Singbhum ! 



I. Branchlets and buds pubescent. L. 4-"'', base not at all cordate, sec. n. 6-12. 

 Recepts -e-'?" (March), base, bracts and "4" pedicel pubescent, and one specimen 

 collected near a stream in Horhap forest with ajncal bracts also pubescent. 



Chota Nagpur : Singbhum and Ranchi ! 



c. Biids silky, slender shoots soon glabrescent. L. much as in last. Recepts* 

 demely fomeiito^e all over, '6-7" diam., often snbsessile, bracts rounded, entire or 

 one 2-fid. Recepts with the gall insects escaping in March. Ranchi ! 



Lac sometimes grows on F. infectoria and the Kols say that the fruit is very 

 good to eat. 



8. F. geniculata, Kurz. 



A large tree with grey very lenticellate twigs, large oblong or ovate- 

 oblong shortly suddenly acuminate leaves 5-7" long, not at all punc- 

 tulate, margin sometimes undulate, base obtuse or rounded with 

 2 lateral basal nerves and sometimes 2 accessory weak ones added, 

 sec. n. 8-12 translucent spreading looped some distance from margin, 

 other intermediate often conspicuous and nervules very finely reti- 

 culate forming minute areoles whitish beneath, nervules slightly 

 raised above. Petioles slender 2-3" often thickened at junction with 

 midrib. Recepts axillary paired and crowding the branchlets and 

 also clustered on raised tubercles at the old leaf scars, subsessile or 

 sessile, •25--3", depressed-globose, verrucose ; basal bracts 3 broad, 

 mostly 2-fid or lobed, with scarious or brown margins. 



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