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UEOSTIGMA. 



the mouth of some receptacles (absent in many), sessile, the perianth of 3 broadly ovate 

 anther angle, ovate-rotund, its filament short ; gall and fertile flowers sessile or 



pieces; antner single, 



pedicillate, the perianth of 5 lanceolate pieces, style short, lateral, stigma rounded ; the galls 

 much more numerous than the fertile females, and many of them without perianth. 



Wild in the sub-Himalayan forests ; in Bengal and in Central India. Universally planted 

 in all parts of India and Ceylon, less frequently in Burmah, and rarely in the Malayan 

 regions. This is the sacred Bo-tree under which, according to the legend, Sakyamuni, the 



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Buddha of the current cycle, became incarnate. It is especially sacred to Buddhists and 

 Hindoos, to whom it is an object of veneration, and even of worship. 



I reduce F. affinior, Griff, here with some hesitation : for Griffith's figure of affinior shows 

 a slight difference from the ordinary type of religiosa in the venation of the leaves. It i 

 however in this respect no better with Rumphii, which is the species nearest to religiosa. 



Plate 67A.— Fruiting-branch of F. religiosa, Linn. 1 & 2, base and apex of a receptacle : 



of natural size. 



Plate 84°. — 3, male flower ; 4 & 5, sessile and pedicillate female flowers ; 6 pedicillate 



gall flower without perianth : all enlarged. 



67. Ficus arnottiana, Miq. Ann. Mas. Lugd. Bat. iii. 287. — Urost. Arnottianum, Miq 



Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 564:. — Urost. Courtallense, Miq. in Lond. Journ Bot. vi 



564. — F. cordifolia, Dalz. and Gibs, (not of Bl. or Eoxb.) Flora of Bomb 



242; Thwaites Enum. PI. Ceyl. 264 ; C. P. 2856; Wall. Cat. 4485A and C 



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A tree or shrub, glabrous in all its parts ; leaves long-petiolate, sub-coriaceous, broadly 

 ovate, narrowed upwards to the shortly caudate-acuminate apex ; margins entire ; base 

 from tnmcate-emarginate to deeply cordate, never narrowed to the petiole, 7-nerved ; lateral 

 primary nerves 5 to 7 pairs, reticulations lucid, minute; length of blade 3 to 8 in., of 

 petiole 2 to 6 in. ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, *6 to 1 in, long, caducous, reddish-brown when 

 dried ; receptacles mostly from the axils of fallen leaves, in pairs or in clusters from tubercles, 

 sessile or short pedunculate, depressed-globular, smooth ; when ripe purple with greenish 

 dots, *25 to *4 in. across ; basal bracts 3, brown, membranous ; peduncles when present 

 from *1 in. to *2 in, long ; male flowers few, near the mouth of the receptacles, sessile, the 

 perianth of 3 loose, inflated, broadly acuminate pieces which are much larger than the 

 single small, ovate-rotund, subsessile anther ; gall and fertile female flowers undistinguish- 

 able except by contents of ovary, sessile or pedicillate, the perianth gamophyllous, lax, 

 toothe<l at the apex, completely investing the ovary, style elongate, stigma flat. 



Western and Southern India and Ceylon ; in rocky places. 



Var. Courtallensis. 



Leaves smaller and less cordate at the base than in the typical form. 



Hills of Southern India. 



Hamilton and Wallich referred this to F. populifolia, Vahl., an African species which 

 it undoubtedly resembles, but which has leaves almost reniform with the receptacles on 

 longer peduncles. 



Wallich distributed three species under the name populifolia and the number 4485. 

 These are as follows in the Linnsean Society's set : 



4485 A. is the same as Thwaites C. P. 2856, and is F. Arnottiana 



B is, in my opinion, E. liumphu, Bl 



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