154 URTICACEM. [ Ficus. 



emarginate or subcordate ; receptacles stalked. Dehra Dun and 

 Siwalik range. DISTRIB. : W. C. and S. India. 



VAR. 2. Wightiaiia, King. Sp. Ficus 1. c. ; F. B. I. V., 516 ; F. Wightiana 

 Wall. -Leaves smaller, often under 2| in. long, narrowed to the base ; 

 receptacles stalked, i- in. long, large in proportion to the size of leaves, 

 pubescent. .Southern edge of gangetic Plain. DISTRIB. : W. and 

 S. India. 



10. F. heterophylla, Linn. f. Suppl. 442 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 

 532 ; Brandis For. FL 424 ; Ind. Trees 606 ; King Sp. Ficus 75, 

 t. 94 ; F. B. I. v, 518 ; Watt E. D. ; Kanjildl For. Fl. (ed. 2) 373 ; 

 Gamble Man. 646 ; Prain Beng. PL 981 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 652. 

 F. repens, Willd. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 535 ; Brandis For. Fl. I.e. 



A shrub, often creeping along the ground or over rocks ; branchlets 

 pubescent. Leaves alternate, polymorphous, petioled, membranous, 

 2-5 in. long, ovate or orbicular-ovate to lanceolate, more or less 

 acuminate, entire or 3-many-lobed, scabrous on both surfaces ; 

 margins coarsely toothed or repand-dentate ; base rounded or cordate, 

 3-5-nerved ; main lateral nerves 4-8 pairs, arched, or in much-lobed 

 leaves palmate ; petioles J-2J in. ; \stipules 2 to each leaf, i-i in. long, 

 ovate, scarious. Receptacles stalked, solitary, axillary, globose to 

 pyriform, more or less hispid, scabrid or warted when young, nearly 

 smooth and orange-yellow when ripe, always with a more or less 

 prominent mammilate partially open umbilicus ; peduncle J-l in. 

 long ; basal bracts minute, triangular glabrous. Perianth of all the 

 flowers 3-4-cleft. MALE FLOWERS : Stamen 1. GALL FLOWERS : Ovary 

 ovoid, smooth ; style short, lateral. FERTILE FLOWERS : Perianth 

 hyaline, viscid, tubercled. Achenes subglobose ; style long, lateral, 

 stigma cylindric. 



Banks of rivers and wet places in Dehra Dun, and eastwards along the 

 Sub-Himalayan tracts to Gorakhpur, also in Bundelkhand, etc, 

 DISTRIB. : Throughout the hotter parts of India and in Ceylon, 

 extending to the Malay Peninsula and Islands. 



The rough rust-coloured bark is used medicinally, and the fruit is said 

 to be eaten. King mentions F. scabrella Roxb. and F. repens Willd. 

 as representing the two most prevalent forms of this polymorphous 

 shrub. In the former the leaves are shortly petioled, narrow and 

 never lobed, and the receptacles are shortly pedicelled, globular or 

 pyriform. The latter has broader leaves, lobed or not and with 

 petioles over 1 in. long, and the pedicels of the pyriform receptacles 



