50S cxxxvi. URTICACE.E. (JYD. Hooker.) [Ficus, G. King. 



Kurz For. Ft. ii. 443. F. longifolia, Earn, in Wall. Cat. 4570 A, B. 

 Urostigma obtusifolium, Miq. in L. J. JS. vi. 569. 



Tropical forests of the base of the EASTEEN HIMALAYA, from Sikkim to Munni- 

 pore; ASSAM, CHITTAGONG, BUEMA and PEEAK. 



A large tree, young often epiphytal. Leaves 4-7 in. ; nerves obscure, about 8-10 

 pairs, secondary nearly as prominent as the primary, reticulations obsolete; petiole 

 $-f in., stout; stipules -1 in., lanceolate or ovate, acuminate. Male fl. scattered, 

 very numerous, on long pedicels ; sepals 3, lanceolate. Gall fl. pedicelled or sessile ; 

 sepals about 4; ovary spherical, white; style subterminal, elongate. Fern. fl. sessile; 

 achene ovate-rotund, tubercled and viscid ; style lateral, as long as the achene, stigma 

 infundibuliform. 



30. F. Benjamina, Linn. Mantiss. 129 (excl. syn. Rlieede) ; all parts 

 glabrous, leaves petioled thinly coriaceous shining more or less broadly 

 ovate-elliptic abruptly shortly acuminate entire, base rounded or subacute, 

 receptacles sessile in axillary pairs globose or ovoid smooth and blood-red 

 when ripe about^ in. diam. with 3 short broad rounded basal bracts or 

 (var. comosa) globose narrowed at the base and about f in. diam. Xing 

 Fie. 43, t. 52, 83 h ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 446 ; Bedd. For. Man. 223. F. nuda, 

 Miq. Ann. iii. 288 ; Kurz 1. c. 445. F. comosa, Roxb. Cor. PL ii. 1. 125, and 

 Fl. 2nd. iii. 552 ; Bedd. I. c. 223 ; Wight Ic. t. 658. F. pendula, Link. Enum. 

 ii. 450. ? F. striata, Roth Nov. Sp. 387. F. papyrifera, Griff. Ic. PI Asiat. 

 t. 554. F. dictyophylla, Wall. Cat. 4502 A, B, D. F. haematocarpa & 

 neglecta, Blume, fid. Dene, in Nouv. Ann. Mus. iii. 494, 495. Urostigma 

 Benjamina, Miq. in L. J. B. vi. 583, and Flor. 1. c. 346 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 242. U. nudum, Miq. in L. J. B. I. c. 584. 



Cultivated in the MALAY PENINSULA, wild (var. comosa only) in the base of the 

 EASTERN HIMALAYA, ASSAM, CHITTAGONG, BUEMA, the ANDAMAN ISLANDS and 

 the DECCAN PENINSULA. DISTBIB. Sumatra, Celebes, Timor. 



An umbrageous tree, branches drooping ; nerves very numerous, close, straight, 

 anastomosing just inside the margin ; petiole -1 in. ; stipules lanceolate, about in. 

 Male fl. very few, scattered, pedicelled; sepals 2, large, flat; anther subsessile. 

 Gall fl. mostly pedicelled ; sepals 3 or 4, long, spathulate ; ovary ovoid, smooth. 

 Fern. fl. sessile ; sepals shortly spathulate ; achene ovoid-reniform, longer than the 

 style, stigma large. 



VAB. comosa, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 446; fruit large globose narrowed at the base 

 about f in. diam. when ripe, sepals of all the flowers lanceolate-acuminate not 

 spathulate. F. comosa, Roxb., &c. I have seen wild specimens only from Timor, 

 Celebes and Sumatra. Beddome and Dalzell mention it as in the Western Peninsula, 

 but I have seen no specimens. 



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31. F. elastica, Roxl. Hort. Beng. 65, and Fl, fnd. iii. 541 ; all parts 

 quite glabrous, leaves shortly petioled coriaceous shining ^oblong to- elliptic 

 rather abruptly obtusely caudate entire, base rounded or narrowed obscurely 

 3-5-nerved, receptacles in pairs sessile in the axils of fallen leaves covered 

 at first by hooded involucres which fall off and leave a basal inrolucral 

 entire-edged cup when ripe ovate-oblong smooth greenish yello'w abottt % in. 

 long. King Fie. t. 45, 54 ; Blume Bijd. 446 ; Wight Ic. 663 Griff. Ic. PI. 

 As. t. 552 ; Brand. For. Flor. 417; Kurz For. Flor. ii. 444. Urostigma 

 elasticum, Miq. in L. J. B. vi. 578, and Flor. I ii., 347, t. 23; Wall. Cat. 

 4557 A, B, C, D. U. circumscissum, Miq. PI. Jungh. 292; Flor. I. c. 344'. 

 U. Karet, Miq. I, c . 348. U. odoratum, Miq. PI. Jungh. 49 ; Flor. I. c. 348, 

 t. 24. Yisiania elastica, Gasp. Nov. Gen. Fie. 9. Macrophthalma elastica, 

 Gasp. Ric. 83, t. 8. 



