516 cxxxvi. URTICACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ficus, G. King. 



4529 A. F. Lacor, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Sue. xv. 150. F. terminalioides, 

 Griff. Not nl. iv. 3$3 ; To. PI. Asiat. t. 550. F. lucescens, Blum; ll'ijd. 444. 

 Urostigma infectoria, Miq. Flor.\.\\. 339; Dais, fy Gibs. Boml>. ^7.241. 

 U. timorense, Miq. in L. J. B. vi. 569; Ann. iii. 286; Flor. I. c. 343. 

 U. leucocarpum, Miq. in L,J. B. ; Ann. II. c. 576 and 286. U. lucoscens, 

 Miq. Flor. L c, 33?. 



Plains and lower hills of INDIA, from the Salt Range toSikkim ; BENGAL, ASSAM, 

 BURMA, both PENINSULAS, and CEYLON; not common wild, frequently planted. 

 DISTEIB. Malay. 



A deciduous, low tree. Leaves 3^-5 in.; nerves 5-7 pairs, not very prominent; 

 petiole 1^2 in., sometimes indistinctly jointed with the blade; stipules about \ in., 

 broadly ovate, acute, pubescent. Malefl. few, sessile, near the mouth of the recep- 

 tacles; anther broadly ovate, filament short; sepils 4 or 5, linear. G-all and/em, y? ; 

 sepals 3 or 4, like those of the male, the Litter often sessile; style of fern, long, of 

 gall fl. short, stigma elongate. Several geographical forma occur, of which 3 are Indian 

 and 2 more Eastern. 



F. INFECTORIA PBOPEii ; leaf-base emarginate subcordate or slightly narrowed, 

 receptacles sessile. 



F. LAMBERTIANA, Miquel Ann. Mus. iii. 286 ; leaves coriaceous, base broad 

 rounded emarginate or subcordate, receptacles ^~ in. diam., pedicel pubescent 

 |-J in. F. punctata, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 4569'. F. rigida, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 

 4527, 4585 B. Urostigma Lambertianum & aegeirophyllum & persese folium, Miq. in 

 L.J. B. vi. 565, 567; U. Lambertianum, Dalz. % Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 241. Western 

 and Central India, from the Sewaliks to the Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon. 



F. WIGHTIANA, Wall. Cat. 4540; leaves smaller often only 2 Jin., base narrowed, 

 receptacles large, peduncles about | in. pubescent. Bedd. For. Man. 222 ; Miq. 

 Ann. I. c. 286. Urostigma Wightianum, Miq. in L. J. B. I. c. 566. South edge of 

 the Gangetic Plain and Western Ghats. 



51. F. g*enlculata, Kurz For. Flor. ii. 447 ; glabrous except the 

 pubescent stipules, leaves subcoriaceous broadly elliptic or ovate-rotund 

 cuspidately acuminate, margins subundulate, base rounded or narrowed 

 sometimes emarginate 3-nerved, receptacles crowded shortly peduncled 

 or sessile in groups of 2 to 4 at the scars of fallen leaves depressed-globose 

 i- in. diam. when ripe reddish with dots, basal bracts 3 broadly ovate. 

 King Fie. 64, t. 80, 84' 2 . 



TROPICAL SIKKIM HIMALAYA and ASSAM to CHITTAGONG, BURMA and the 

 MALAY PENINSULA. DISTRIB. Malay Islands. 



A large tree. Leaves 4-7 by 2J-4 in. ; nerves 8-12 pairs, nearly horizontal, 

 nervules and reticulations distinct; petiole 2^-4 in., separating from the blade when 

 dry; stipules about in., broadly ovate, pubescent. Male fl. near the mouth of the 

 receptacles, rather numerous ; sepals connate, barely covering the single stamen ; 

 anther broad, filament short. Gall and fern. fl. with 2 or 3 lanceolate sepals; style 

 of gall fl. short,'of fern. fl. long. Closely allied to infectoria, but separable by the 

 rounder leaves, longer petioles, and ganiophyllous male perianth. 



T. callosa, WiUd. in Act. Acad. Berol. 1798, 102, t. 4 ; branchlets 

 hoavy wavtod, leaves rigid coriaceous petioled elliptic or oval, tip rounded or 

 shortly obtusely acuminate, margins entire slightly recurved, base broad 

 rounded sometimes slightly narrowed to the petiole 3-5-nerved, receptacles 

 peduiicled solitary axillary pubescent-scabrid subglobose very slightly de- 

 pressed at the apex contracted at the base into a short stalk, basal bracts 

 3 broadly ovate pubescent when ripe yellow about 1 in. diam., peduncle 

 proper about f in. pubescent-scabrid. King Fie. 64 to 85, 84 V - 2 ; Miq. Ann. 

 iii. 295 ; Kurz Fur. Fl. ii. 454. F. scleroptera, Miq. Pi. Jungh. 63, and 



