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Plants of the Punjab. 



Trees with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Petals none. 



Ficus, Juice Milky ; Fruit a Hollow Fleshy Vessel, in which 

 Flowers and Seeds are contained. 



Ficus bengalensis, 

 Banyan, 



Bor, Bargat. 



Urticace^. 



F. B. I. V. 499. 



The Plains to 4,000 ft. 



Baluchistan 



(Hughes-Buller). 



Ficus elastica, 



Urticace^. 

 F. B. I. V. 508. 

 The Plains. 



Ficus retusa,. 



Urticace.^. 

 p. B.I. V. 511. 

 The Plains. 



Ficus infectoria. 



War, jangli pijili. 



Urticace^. 



F. B.I. V. 515. 



Salt Kange, the Plains. 



Ficus Rumphii, 



Pulak, pilkhan. 



Urticace^. 



F. B. I. V. 512. 



The Plains to 5,000 ft. 



Ficus religiosa, 



Pipal. 



Urticace^. 



F. B. I. V. 513. 



Th Plains to 5,000 ft. 



Valley below Simla 



(CoUett). 



Baluchistan. 



large, rooting from branches, sometimes epiphytal 

 when young, young shoots velvety ; leaves leathery, 

 ovate to orbicular, edges smooth, nerves prominent, 

 stalk of leaf |-2 in., not jointed to blade, -tipules f-1 in., 

 leathery ; fruit round, sessile, in pairs, red, velvety, size 

 of a small cherry, with 3 broad leathery smooth leaf- 

 like bracts at the base. 



large, often epiphytic when young ; leaves 3-12 

 in., dark green, much longer than broad, glossy, leaf 

 stalk 1-2| in., not jointed to the blade, stipule single, 

 coloured, almost half as long as the leaf, fruit sessile in 

 pairs, ovate, oblong, greenish, yellow, about ^ in. long. 



large, aerial roots few ; leaves 2-4 in., leathery, 

 broadly ovate, leaf stalk J-| in., stipules narrow, I in. 

 long ; fruit small sessile in pairs, ^ in. diam., yellow or 

 reddish bracts at base, broad, ovate. 



Leaf Stalk jointed to Blade. 



small, all parts smooth, somet mes sending down a 

 few aerial roots ; leaves shining, on long slender stalks 

 abruptly pointed, stalk 1^-2 in., stipules | in. broad, 

 ovate, fruit in sessile pairs, round, when ripe | in. diam., 

 white tinged with red, dotted, basal bracts 3, minute. 



often epiphytal, all parts smooth ; leaves minutely 

 warty above, broadly ovate, leaf stalk 2|-3^ in., sti- 

 pules ovate, |-1 in. ; fruit sessile in pairs, globose, smooth, 

 when young whitish with dark spots, when ripe nearly 

 , black, I in. diam., basal bracts 3, round, smooth. 



usually epiphytal, smooth ; leaves leathery, shining 

 above, base broad, point long, leaf stalk 3-4 in., slender ; 

 fruit sessile in pairs, smooth, depress! d, spheroidal, dark 

 purple when ripe, | in. diam., basal bracts 3, broad, 

 spreading, leathery. 



Ficus clavata, 



see Shrubs, Alternate, Stipulate. Simple. 



