FIGUS, O. King.'] cxxxvi. URTICACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 513 



broadly ovate acuminate margins entire subundulate, base broad slightly 

 narrowed towards the petiole, basal nerves 5 rarely 7 (2 minute), receptacles 

 sessile in axillary pairs or at leaf-scars globose smooth, when young whitish 

 with dark spots when ripe nearly black h in. diam., basal bracts 3 rotund 

 small. Ring Fie. 54, t. 673, 84 1 '; Dene, in N. Ann. Mus. iii. 493; Miq. Ann. 

 iii.287i.Zrw3 For. Flor. ii. 448. F. cordifolia, Roxb. (not J3L) FL Ind. 

 iii. 548 ; Brand. For. Flor. 416, t. 48 ; Wight Ic. t. 640. Urostigma Rum- 

 phii, Miq. in Zoll. Syst. Verz. 90, and Flor. i. ii. 332. U. cordifolium, Miq. 

 in L. J. B. vi. 564. F. species, Griff. Itin. Notes iii. n. 145, and Ic. Plant. 

 Asiat. 549. Wall. Cat. 4484, A to G. 



On the dry lower slopes of the mountains of the PANMAB ; and NORTHERN, 

 WESTERN and CENTRAL INDIA, ASSAM, BURMA and the Malay Peninsula. 

 DISTRIB. Malay Islands. 



A large tree, often epiphytal. Leaves 4-6 in. ; nerves 3-6 pairs, rather 

 irregular, prominent when young, apex forming about of the blade ; petiole 2^- 

 3 in. ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, ^-1 in. Male jl. few, only near mouth of receptacle ; 

 sepals 3, spathulate; stamen 1; tilameut about as long as the anther. Gallaud 

 fem.fl.; sepals 3, lanceolate; gall ovary smooth, usually obovoid ; achene minutely 

 tubercled, mucilaginous; style in both elongate, stigma clavate. 



44. F. religlosa, Linn. Sort. Cliff. 471 ; leaves long-petioled coria- 

 ceous shining above minutely tubercled when dry beneath ovate-rotund 

 narrowed upwards and caudate margins entire undulate, base broad rounded 

 to truncate or a little narrowed occasionally emarginate or when young 

 cordate 5-7-nerved, receptacles in axillary pairs sessile smooth depressed 

 spheroidal when ripe dark purple \ in. diam., basal bracts 3 broad spread- 

 ing coriaceous. King Fie. 55, -t. 67 A, 84 U ; Blume Bijd. 436 ; Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 547 ; Wight Ic. 1. 1967 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylvat. t. 314 ; Brand. For. Flor. 

 415 ; Kurz For. Flor. ii. 448. F. affinior, Griff. Notul. iv. 392, and Ic. PL 

 Asiat. t. 553. Urostigma religiosum, Gasp. Ric. 82, t. 7, f. 1 ; Miq. Flor. 

 i. ii. 333, t, 23, in L. J. B. vi. 563 ; Dalz. ft Gils. Bomb. Fl. 241. U. affine, 

 Miq. in L. J.B. vi. b64>.Rkeede Hort. Mai. i. 47, t. 27. Wall Cat. 4487 

 A, B to E. 



Wild in the SUB-HIMALAYAN FORESTS, in BENGAL and in CENTRAL INDIA. Uni- 

 versally planted in India and Ceylon, less frequently in Burma, and rarely in the 

 Malayan region. 



A large, glabrous, usually epiphytal tree. Leaves 4^-7 by 3-4^ in. ; nerves 

 about 8 pairs, reticulations fine, distinct, the tail forming about a third of the blade; 

 petiole 34 in., slender ; stipules minute, ovate, acute. Malefl. very few, only near 

 the mouth of some receptacles (often absent), sessile; sepals 3, broadly ovate ; anther 

 1, ovate-rotund, filament short Grail arid fern. Jl. sessile or pedicelled ; sepals 

 5, lanceolate ; style short, lateral ; stigma rounded. Gall much more numerous 

 than the fern., many without perianth. I reduce F. qffinior, of Griffith, here with 

 some hesitation : for his figure shows a slight difference from ordinary religiosa in 

 the nervation. It agrees, however, in this respect no better with F. 



45. F. Arnottiana, Miq. Ann. Mus. iii. 287 ; everywhere glabrons, 

 leaves long-petioled subcoriaceous broadly ovate narrowed to the shortly 

 caudate-acuminate apex entire, base from truncate-emarginate to deeply 

 cordate never narrowed to the petiole 7-nerved, receptacles mostly from 

 the axils of fallen leaves in pairs or clusters from tubercles sessile or short- 

 peduncled depressed-globular smooth when ripe purple with greenish dots, 

 %-TJ in. diam., basal bracts 3 brown membranous, peduncles or ^~\ i Q - 

 Xing Fie. 56, t. 68, 84 V . F. populifolia, Wall Cat. 4485 A, C (in part}. 



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