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3. FICUS, Linn. 



1. F ACUTILOBA, Miquel. Branchlets puberulous, when old 

 smooth, shining, dark-coloured ; leaves moderately petioled, ovate- 

 oblong, 3 to 5-lobed, base obtuse, 3-nerved ; lobes elliptic or lance- 

 olate-acute, denticulate, middle one longer, subsinuate or coarsely 

 toothed on both sides, especially beneath, scabrous and harsh ; 

 fruit axillary, solitary peduncled, small, between pear-shaped and 

 globose, with 3 bracts at the base. Allied to F repens, and 

 Heterophylla ; 1370 of Graham's list; Malabar Hill, Bombay; the 

 Ghauts, &c. 



2. F ASPERRIMA, Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, p 554. Branches at length 

 smooth; leaves alternate or opposite, oblong-acuminate, obtuse at 

 the base, remotely toothed upwards, rigid, very rough and harsh, 

 3-nerved, and with 3 to 4 costal veins on each side ; fruit axillary, 

 peduncled, globose, hoary, pubescent and scabrous. Bombay, 

 common. Wight Ic. 633. 



3. F HETEROPHYLLA, Linn. All rough and harsh; leaves 

 alternate, shortly-petioled, rigid, membranaceous, above roughish, 

 and of a deep-green, below pale, oblong-acute, acute at the base, 

 serrated, entire or 3-lobed or subpinnatifid, of all shapes ; fruit 

 axillary, solitary, rarely twin, between turbinate and globose. 

 Common in moist places. Wight Ic. 659. 



4. COVELLIA, Gasp. 



1. C OPPOSITIFOLIA, Gasp. A small tree, native of the banks 

 of rivulets ; trunk erect ; young shoots scabrous and covered with 

 much short, white hair, fistulous, and interrupted at the insertion 

 of the leaves ; leaves opposite, short, round or oblong, slightly 

 serrate, glandular in the axils of the veins beneath, shining above, 

 downy beneath; fruit axillary and peduncled, racemed on the naked, 

 woody branches, round, about the size of a large nutmeg, covered 

 with short, white hair, with several equi-distant ridges. Syn. Ficus 

 oppositifolia, Willd sp. iv, p 1151; Sycomorphe roxburghii, 

 Miquel 1375 of Graham's Catalogue. 



2. C GLOMERATA, Miquel loc. cit. A large tree, generally 

 found about villages and on the banks of rivers ; trunk crooked, 

 thick, and high ; bark of a rusty-greenish colour and rough ; leaves 

 alternate, petioled, oblong or broad-lanceolate, tapering equally to 

 each end, entire, very slightly 3-nerved, smooth on both sides ; 

 racemes compound or panicled, issuing immediately from the trunk 

 or the large branches ; fruit pedicelled, nearly as large as common 

 figs, clothed with soft down, and most frequently full of worms. 

 Native name " Oombur." 



