156 URTICACEM. [ Ficus. 



12. F. laminosa, Hardw. in As. Res. vi, 379 ; ex Roxb. Hort). 

 Beng. 103 ; Fl. Ind. in, 531 ; Madden in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xvii, 

 part 1, 643 ; Prain Beng. PL 982. F. ssemocarpa, Miq. ; King 

 Sp. Fie. 116, t. 152 ; F. B. I. v, 523 ; Kanjildl For. Fl. (ed. 2), 

 374 ; Gamble Man, 647 ; Brandis Ind. Trees 606 and 718. F, 

 squamosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 531. F. tuberculata, Wall, (not of 

 Roxb.) ; Brandis For. Fl. 424 and 577. F. pyrrhocarpa, Kurz. 

 Vern. Chancheri^GsiThwal), gur-timla (Kuaiaon). 



A low shrub ; branchlets hirsute. Leaves opposite, crowded at the ends 

 of the branches, 3-9 in. long, linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, entire, 

 smooth, rarely scabrid on upper surface, smooth or scaberulous and 

 rarely hispid beneath ; base narrowed, 3-nerved ; main lateral nerves 

 6-8 pairs ; petioles J-l in. long, pubescent ; stipules in pairs J-J in., 

 ovate, acuminate, nearly glabrous, persistent. Receptacles shortly 

 stalked, solitary in the axils, or in short leafless panicles from the old 

 wood, subglobose, ^-1 i^i. in diam. ; base constricted, 8-10-ribbed, 

 warted and hispid and with scattered bracts on the sides ; umbilicus 

 large ; peduncles i-J in., pubescent ; basal bracts 3, triangular, 

 deciduous. MALE-flowers : Stamen 1. Perianth of fern, flowers none 

 or obscure. Ovary of gall flowers smooth ; style short, lateral. 

 Achenes rhomboid, style very long, hairy. 



Dehra Dun and eastwards along the Sub-Himalayan tracts, usually by 

 shady streams and often in the crevices of partially submerged rocks. 

 The receptacles ripen during the cold season. DISTRIB. : Outer 

 Himalaya from the Jumna to Bhutan, in sandy and rocky streams, 

 also in Assam, the Khasia Hills and Burma. Closely allied to F. 

 liispida, of which it may, as suggested by King, be a much modified 

 form brought about by the peculiar conditions of its habitat. There 

 is a coloured drawing of this shrub (plate 65) in Hardwicke's unpub- 

 lished collection of drawings of Indian plants, a copy of which will 

 be found in the botanical library at the Natural Hist. Museum. 

 Colonel Hardwicke mentions that the villagers in Garhwal feed their 

 cows on the branches and leaves of this shrub. 



13. F. Cunia, Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 561 ; Brandis 

 For. Fl. 421 ; Ind. Trees 606 ; King Sp. Fie. 101, t. 126 ; F. B. 1. 

 v, 523 ; Watt E. D. ; Comm. Prod. Ind. 538 ; Kanjildl For. Fl. 

 (ed. 2), 375 ; Gamble Man. 648 ; Prain Beng. PL 982 ; Collett Fl. 

 Siml. 460. F. conglomerata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 559. Vern. 

 Jarhphali (Hind.), khain, klieina (Dehra Dun), kJienna (Bijnor), 

 khurhur (Oudh). 



