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rotund-cordate, the base 3-nerved, the apex acute or minutely apiculate ; the margins serrat 

 or dentate, occasionally with 3 to 5 obtuse lobes; lateral primary nerves 3 to 6 pair* 

 upper surface scabrous, the lower scabrid or shortly tomentose; length of blade froi 



1-5 in. to 5 in.; petioles from 1 to 2 in. long; stipules ovate-acute, pubescent, 2 to 

 each leaf, deciduous. Receptacles pedunculate, solitary, axillary, sub-globular to pyriform, 

 umbonate, constricted towards the peduncle, tomentose, pubescent or glabrous ; when 

 ripe yellowish; basal bracts 3 or more, acute, deciduous; from 5 in. to 1 in. in diameter; 

 peduncles from *5 in. to 1 in. loi-g, pubescent or glabrous. Male flowers numerous in the 

 upper half of the receptacles containing gall flowers, on long, hairy pedicels; the 

 perianth of 4 or 5 lanceolate hairy pieces; stamens 3 to 6, with short filaments. Gall 

 flowers sessile or pedicellate, with a gamophyllous, deeply 5-cleft, hyaline perianth ; the 

 ovary ovoid, smooth ; style very short, lateral ; stigma dilated. Perfect female flowers with 

 perianth like the gall flowers ; the achene trigonous, minutely tuberculate ; the style elongate, 

 hairy, sub-terminal ; the stigma bifid. , • 



Plains of Northern India; the North-Western Himalaya up to 3,000 ft.; 

 Afghanistan; also in Arabia, Egypt, and Abyssinia, 



The two forms named F. caricoides and virgata by Roxburgh appear to me to be botanical lv 

 identical, the only difference between them noted by Roxburgh in his descriptions and 



manuscript drawings in the Calcutta Herbarium being in size. F. caricoides he described 

 from a cultivated specimen sent to him from Lucknow, F, virgata he described from 

 wild specimens ; and in my opinion the former is only the cultivated form of the latter. 

 I do not see how either differs from the older species palmata of Forskall, except that the 

 leaves are not so scabrid. And this is a difference that can easily be accounted for by 

 climate. I have no hesitation, therefore, in reducing both Roxburgh's species as well as 

 psevdo-sycomorus of Decaisne to F. palmata, Forsk. Moreover, I find no differences between 

 the flowers of these four. And I have a strong suspicion that all may be but forms of F. carica, 

 inn. In the Linnsean Society's set of Wallich's plants, No. 4507A (named F. caricoides, 

 Roxb.) is in my opinion true F. carica, L. Sheet B is absent from the set. In the 

 Calcutta Herbarium set both A and B are caricoides. 



Plate 185.— F. palmata, Forsk. A : fruiting twig with undivided leaves. B : twig with 

 5-lobed leaves. 1 apex of a young receptacle ; 2, stipule— of natural size ; 3, male flower w ith 

 3 stamens ; 4, male flower with 5-merous perianth, the stamens having been removed ; 5, pill 

 flower ; 6,' ovary of gall flower ; 7 & 8, fertile female flowers ; 9, achene of fertile female 

 flower : all enlarged. 



171. Ficus alba, Reimv. in M Bijd. 467; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 294 



Supp. 173, 424; Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 270, 290.-I?. nivca, Bl. Bijd 



476; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 291.— F. mappan, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat 



Supp 173, 425.- F. gossypina, Wall. Cat. 4488; Miq. in Lond. Jom 

 Bot. vii. 455 ; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 294 ; Supp. 173, 425.-.F. bicohr, 

 Herb. Hook.-?/?, palmata, Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 529.-2? Hunteri, Miq. 

 Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. 225 ; Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 296. 



A small tree, with very variable leaves which vary from intensely white to pale 



einnamon-coloured beneath. Leaves long-petiola.e, membranous, vary.ng from ovate-Ianeeo- 

 la.e, ovate, or sub-rhomboid-elliptie with narrowed rarely cordate base, to rhombem-sub- 



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