8. Ficus.] 125. MORAGEJE. 



Wild in the forests of Singbhum (there used to he a tree on the hill in the 

 Tholokabad forest on which the forest rest-house has heen erected !) Frequent 

 about Ranchi ! Recepts. unripe ones seen in Sept., flowering ones with dead galls 

 and not quite nature male-flowers in March. Old leaves shed in February, and the 

 tree is then nearly leafless. 



Buds and shoots silky, pubescent or tomentose especially at the nodes, the 

 buds on bursting throw ofl: a number of very long leaf-scales (as well as stipular 

 coverings) 2-i" long by "S-'o" broad, narrowly oblong and translucent and the 

 young leaves are very membranous. Male flower with an oblique or split mouthed 

 /?amophyllous perianth and very broad anther. Female irregularly toothed or 

 split. Receptacle with numerous filamentous scales among the flowers. 



F. tjakela, Burm, Syn. F. venosa. Ait. is recorded in Hamilton' s'Sl.S. with the 

 vernacular name of Nata Pakar, from Purneah. The true F. tjakela is a 

 liandsome tree with coriaceous oblong-ovate oval or oblong shortly abruptly 

 acuminate leaves 3-7'5" long with broad rounded or sub-truncate or cordate base 

 beautifully venose and polished when dry. The small recepts only "2" diam. are 

 clustered on nodose tubercles mostly at the scars of fallen leaves. It is a tree of 

 the Deccan and probably F.geniculata or a form of F. infectoria was the tree 

 referred to. 



9. F. tsiela, Eoxh. 



A low or large spreading tree, often epiphytic, without aerial roots, 

 or " sometimes sending down aerial roots like a Banyan," C. G. Rogers. 

 Leaves coriaceous elliptic, or oblong- or narrowly ovate, more rarely 

 ovate, 3-5-5-5", distinguished from those of F. Rnmphii by the very 

 short bluntly acuminate apex or entire absence of acumination, the 

 apex being merely acute or obtuse, also by the larger number of 

 sec. n., 0-12 each side above the basal ones, and not much stronger 

 than the intermediate, basal nerves usually 3 and 2 Aveaker ones. 

 Recepts globose or globose-pyriform from a broad base, •4--5" diam., 

 not wrinkled when dry, 1-2 axillary and from leaf-scars, sometimes 

 X)urple in all stages of development, in other specimens white, often 

 with large but not raised dots. 



Fre<|uent in the Central Provinces and likely to occur in Sambalpur and 

 Kalahandi, but the only tree I have met with in Bihar and Orissa was one at 

 Partab, in the south of Puri district ! Fr. Jan. -Feb. 



Bark smooth, white or greenish, blaze with a thin chlorophyll layer, then pink 

 or red or banded pink and white. When the leaves are ovate they much resemble 

 those of F. Eumphil. L. minutely punctulate (as in F. Rnmphii), dots translucent 

 when fresh, showing as minute tubercles when dry, base rounded, cuneate or 

 oblique, sec n. less conspicuous than in F. Rnmphii. Petiole usually half to nearly 

 as long as the blade, often appearing articulate to blade. Innovations and recepts 

 sometimes puberulous or pubescent. Basal bracts very broadly ovate, more or 

 less connate, small and only covering the broad base of recept, unequal, largest 

 •05-11". 



As in other cases the perianth appears variable, male tepals broadly obovate 

 to oblong-lanceolate, gall stalked broadly elliptic or lanceolate with hj'aline 

 margins, female broadly ovate or ovate-lanceolate, sessile. 



King shows both M. and F. tepals as lanceolate and acute in tsiela, oblanceolate 

 and obtuse in Rnmphii. Roxburgh points out that the stipular scars are not 

 durable in this species. The tree alluded to by Rogers might be Ramphii. 



10. F. Rumphii, Blume. Duranga-hesa, K. 



A large or m.s. usually very spreading tree with glabrous or hairy 

 twigs, ovate or broadly ovate leaves 4-0" gradually tapering to the 

 finely acufninate tip and with straight or obtuse or sometimes widely 

 subcordate base (and then again shortly cuneate or obtuse on the 

 petiole) with 3-5-basal nerves and 5-0 sec. n. looping Avithin the car- 

 tilaginous margin. Recepts oblong-obovoid or globose with very 



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