522 cxxxvi. URTICACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Ficus, G. Kimj. 



(37. F. asperrima, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 554; leaves petioled ovate 

 oblong lanceolate or elliptic obtuse or acuminate subentire toothed or 

 crenate above the entire base scabrous-hispid on both surfaces, nerves 

 3-5 pairs, recepts peduncled globose scabrous-hispid top depressed. 

 Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 243; Wight Ic. t. 633; Bedd. For. 3fan. i 2'2\; 

 J//</. hi L. J. B. vii. 230. F. hispidissima, Wight mss. ; Miq. in L. J. B. I. c. 

 229. F.. P olitoria, Moon Cat. Ceyl. PL 



CENTRAL INDIA and the DECCAN PENINSULA, and CEYLON, ascending to 

 3000 ft. 



A tree or shrub: shoots scabrid. Leaves 1-1 ^ in., subterminal, base obtuse 3- 

 nerved, nerves beneath very prominent; petiole ^-2 in. stout; stipules minute. 

 Recepts ^-1 in. diam., ripe yellow or purple spotted yellow, umbilicus prominent, 

 its bracts erect. Male and gall sepals 45, linear, scabrid. Gall. fl. ; ovary ovate- 

 lanceolate, style terminal thick, stigma diluted. Fern. fl. ; achene narrow obovoid, 

 tubercled, style filiform lateral, stigma clavate. 



68. F. lepidosa. Wall. Cat. 4541 ; leaves petioled membranous ovate- 

 oblong to elliptic obovate or lanceolate acute or cuspidate entire glabrous 

 above pale and appressed pubescent beneath, nerves 7-8 pairs, recepts in 

 axillary pairs' peduncled pubescent male ellipsoid fern, globose or snbpyri- 

 form. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 450. F. Lamponga, Miq. Flor. Suppl. 430 ; Ann. 

 iii. 294. F. Lamponga var. l,lurz L c. 451. F. martabanica, Wall. Cat. 

 4551. 



BHOTAN, Gamble-, ASSAM, CHITTAGONG and BUEMA, Wallich, &c.; PERAK, 

 King's Collector. 



A small tree, branchlets pubescent. Leaves 4-7 in., rather harsh, base obtuse or 

 subacute 3-nerved, subglabrous above, beneath pale with prominent nerves, nervules 

 straight, petiole \ 1^ in. pubescent, stipules ^ in. lanceolate, midrib pubescent. 

 Receptacles \ in. diam., ripe orange-red, young umbonate ; basal bracts 3, ovate, acute ; 

 peduncle \-\ in. Male sepals 4. Gall ovary globose, smooth, style lateral, stigma 

 tubular ; tern. fl. mixed with hairs ; sepals 4-5 ; achene oblong oblique rugose, style 

 subterminal, stigma cylindric. 



VAE. martabanica ; leaves elongate lanceolate acuminate. 



Sect. Y. COVELLIA (see p. 495). 



69. Fi congrloliataj King ; hispid, leaves elliptic or subobovate 

 acuminate serrulate or denticulate, nerves 4 pairs, recepts long-peduncled 

 in crowded panicles from the base of the stem subglobose or pyriform nearly 

 smooth. 



TROPICAL SIKKIM HIMALAYA, Griffith's Collectors (Kew Distrib. 4639), J. D. H., 

 King ; CHITTAGONG, Lister. Munnipore, Watt. 



A small tree. Leaves opposite and alternate, 6-14 in. .above sparsely strigose with 

 hispid-tomentose nerves, beneath papillose with setose nerves ; petiole 1^-6 in. setose ; 

 stipules f in. hispid. Receptacles % in. diam., in the axils of scarious bracts, oral 

 bracts large, basal 3 united below glabrous. Male sepals 3 broad. Gall and fern. 

 pi'i'ld nth short, tubular, or 0; style short lateral, stigma dilated. Achene broad 

 rhomboid rough. Leaves of F. hispido, receptacles more or less hypogeal. 



70. F. hispida, Linn. f. /S'.v^//. ! ' : . Ir ;'(!, leaves ovate oblong or 

 suboUovate acute or cuspidate entire or ''-5 pairs, recepts 

 ahort-peduncled fascicled ou the old woe lies, turbinate 

 obovoid or Bubpyrifbrm. Blwnc Jiij<> : . 4<> () ; J3r . /'/'. \~l\\; Kiu-z 

 Fnt- F7. ii. 460; 1!<L Fur. Man. ~2-2\; J////. Ann. iii. ^82, 29t>. F. OI)|M). 

 aiufulia, mild. A>>. ri. iv. 1151 ; Itou-i: Cor. PI. 121, and FL Lid. iii. 501 ; 



