

EUSYCE. 



129 



and divergent. Cachar,— Keenan 

 Hook. fit. and Thorns. 



Dupha Hills,— Z/$fer 



Pogonot. Emodi, Miq 



Herb. Ind. Or 



> 



Kh 



Hills 



are 



The flowers of all these varieties 

 alike. 



j 



I have satisfied myself by numerous dissection 





Miquel identifies F. vagans, Roxb., with F. macrocarpa, Wight Icon 1965 • but Roxbu 



manuscript drawing of F. 



** 



Herb. Calcutt 



- 



s 



shows vagans clearly to be identical with 



authentic specimens of F. Uvis, Bl. ; while Wight's figure of F. macrocarpa (Icon 1965) shows 

 the fruit to be in fascicles on the stem as in F. glomerata. 



Plate 161. — F. Icevis, Bl. 



form with leaf contracted towards the base 



B: 



male flower 



branch of a pubescent form with youn 



2. 3 



y 



c 



& 4, gall flowers (from the same 



female flower (from a different receptacle) : enlarged. 



* receptacles, 

 iptacles. 5, triandrou* 

 ptacle as the male); 1, fertile 



mature 



150. 



Ficus scandens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii 536 ; Wight Icon 643 ; Miq. Lond. 

 Journ. Bot. vii. 452; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 281, 294; Brandts 

 For. Flora 421 ; Kurz For. Flora Brit. Burnt, ii. 455. — F. fruticos< . 



Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 533 ; Wall. Cat. 4501. — F. Crustacea an 



Wall. Cat. 4533A and B.— ? F. hederacea, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 538. 



mcrvis 



y 



A scandent shrub, often rooting from the stem and branches ; young leaves pubescent, 

 and the young shoots pubescent or glabrous ; ultimately all parts except the receptacle* 

 glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, petiolate, broadly ovate or ovate-elliptic, with acute or sub-acuto 



ape 



entire ed 



and 



broad 



nded, or very slightly narrowed, strongly 3-nerved 

 about 3 pairs, prominent below, depressed on the upper surface ; 

 Under surface sub-areolar, upper surface minutely rugose, slightly rough to the touch when 

 dry ; length of blade 2 to 3*5 in. ; petioles *3 to *5 in. ; stipules ovate-acuminate, -25 in. Ion 



base ; lateral primary 



Receptacles pedunculate 



pairs, or 



solitary by abortion, axillary 



globular, not umbouate 



but with the umbilicus rather prominent, sometimes constricted at the base into a very short 

 stalk ; scabrid-pubescent when young ; when ripe scaberulous, from greeni Ii yellow to red 



colour, and about '3 



basal bracts 3, united ; peduncles -3 to *5 in. long, rati 



slender. Male flowers near the mouth of the receptacles containing gall flower 



> 



tl 



perianth of 4 broad pieces 



stamens 2, the anthers broadly ovate, sub-sessile ; gall flowers 



pedicellate ; the perianth of 4 distinct, lanceolate pieces ; the achene obovate, smooth ; the 



tyle short, thick, sub-terminal ; stigma hooked 



Fertile female flowers in separate receptacl 



(and on separate plants), pedicellate; the perianth of 4 linear pieces; achene oblong, smooth 

 with a broad pale margin ; style elongate, infra-apical ; stigma sub-capitate. 



j 



On Parasnath, in Bengal : on the lower slopes of the Himalay 



> 



from Kumaon to Bhotan 



on the Khasi 



d 



tl 



hill ranges of Assam; the Chittagong Hill Tracts 



d B 



the Andamans. Climbing on rocks and trees at elevations of from 800 to 2,000 ft 



Roxburgh's species 



F. hederacea and fruticosa are know 



from his descript 



his own direction and now preserved 



and from excellent coloured figures prepared under 



with each other, as do th 



in the Calcutta Herbarium. These fig 



agree 



descript 



practically 



The 



nly differences th 



of scandens and hederacea are figured as 



diandrous ; and that F. fruticosa is said to be non-scandent 



I can make out are that while the male flowers 

 monandrous, those of fruticosa are depicted as 





