Ficus.] 



URTICACEM. 



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tacle, the inner wall studded with crustaceous or fleshy achenes. 

 Seed pendulous, testa membranous, albumen scanty, embryo curved, 

 radicle ascending. Species about 600, mostly tropical. 



For full information regarding the figs of British India see Sir George 

 King's valuable monograph published in Vol. I of the Annals of the 

 R. Botanic Garden, Calcutta in 1888. 



Section I. PAL^SOMORPHE. Male flowers 

 with 1 stamen and a rudimentary pistil 

 in the same receptacle with gall flowers ; 

 female flowers in separate receptacles : 



A large epiphytic climbing shrub with 

 thinly coriaceous leaves and small stalked 

 globose receptacles . . . . 1. F. parasitica. 



Section II. UROSTIGMA. Flowers unisexual, 

 rarely neuter. Male gall and fern, flowers in 

 the same receptacle. Male flowers usually 

 monandrous. Leaves alternate, entire, 

 rarely membranous (see F. infectorid). Re- 

 ceptacles axillary or from the scars of fallen 

 leaves, 3-bracteate at the base. Usually 

 trees or powerful climbers, epiphytic at least 

 in early life : 



Petioles - J in. long, rarely (in F. bengalensis) 

 as much as 2 in., never jointed to the 

 blade : 



Receptacles sessile : 



Leaves more or less hairy, at least when 

 young, main lateral nerves much 

 stronger than the secondary ones : 



Leaves obtuse at the apex, glabrous 

 above, puberulous beneath when 

 young ; petioles up to 2 in. long ; 

 receptacles globose, v in. in diam., 

 red and downy when ripe. -A large 

 wide-spreading tree with many 

 aerial roots from the main bran- 



ches 



. 2. F. bengalensis.. 



