144 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



Ficus repens a. 



Kha aim Burmanoriim. 

 Habitat in ripis Avaî fertilibus. 



Caulis fruticulosus, très pedes longus, ramosus, glaber, repens. 

 Full a alterna, cordata, obtusa, supra nitida, punctata, ru- 

 gosa, pilis brevissimis scabra, costata, venis reticulata, mar- 

 gine repando sed integerrimo quasi denticulata, nunc inté- 

 gra, tunc triloba, vel sa?pius repanda, sinubus lobisque 

 obtusis. Fetiolus teres, annulo ramum cingens, mediocris, 

 liispidus. Stipula geminœ, latérales, brevissim.Te, caducœ. 

 Inter pilos densos brevissimos, qui in petiolum et foliorum 

 nervos insidunt, pauci sunt longiores apice hamati. 



Rcceptaciila axillaria, lactescentia, erecta, solitaria, pedunculata, 

 ovata, obtusa, angulata, pubescentia, elevato-punctata, apice 

 sexdentato umbilicata. Pcdunculus erectus, longitudine fere 

 petiolorum compressus, apicem versus squamula una vel 

 altera obtusa bracteatus. 



Ficus repens /3. 



Habitat in Camrupa^ sylvis. 



Caulis liirtus. Folia revere dentata, supra scabra, et pilis stella- 

 tis hispida, subtus hirta, cœteroquin vix diversa. 



The leaves of this plant are used in Ava for polishing timber, 

 as is also the case with those of the Ficus denticulata of Will- 

 denow [Sp. PL iv. 1132.), which, although placed by him at a 

 great distance from the Ficus repens, is not a very distinct spe- 

 cies, differing chietly in its stem being scandent instead of repent ; 

 but this may be owing to its being found in places that are at 

 times inundated, which may occasion the plants growing there 

 to raise themselves, while those in dry places creep on the sur- 

 face. The leaves of the creeping kind are Just as often lobed, as 



those 



