FicUS.'] 78. URTICACEyE. 193 



Fniit 'bloocl-rccl, 5 in. in diameter F. Benjamina, 



Fruit small, .', in. yellow or reddish ... ... F. rrfU'^a. 



Fruit small, J in. grceni.sh-ycllow, dotted ... F. Talboti. 



Leaves alternate. Receptacles in pednncled 

 axillary pairs. Bracts at the base 0, but 3, 

 small, free bracts low down on the peduncle. 



Fruit globose, J in. in diameter ... F. nervosa. 



Leaves coriaceous or membranous ; petiole long, 

 jointed to the blade. Receptacles sessile, in 

 pairs; basal-bracts 3, small. 



Fruit when j'onng white with dark spots, blacTi 



when ripe F. Rumphil. 



Fruit dark purple ; basal bracts broad, coriaceous. F. rdhjiom. 



Receptacles in pairs from tubercles, purple black 

 with greenish dots. Basal-bracts brown, mem- 

 branous F. Arnotliana. 



Eecef tacles in clusters, small, dotted and whitish 



yellow : basal-bracts 3, bifid ... F. Tjakda. 



Receptacles crowded at the ends of the branches, 



purple black ; basal-bracts 3, minute, scarious ... F. Tsicla. 



Receptacles globose ^ in. white, flushed with red 



and dotted ; basal-bracts minute F. infectoria. 



Leaves rigid, coriaceous. Fruit peduncled, soli- 

 tary, 1^ in. in diameter, green, scab rid ... F. callosa. 



Leaves coarsely-toothed or repand, scabrid. 

 Receptacles solitary, axillary, peduncled, small, 

 scabrid, green. A shrub ... F. hderophyna. 



Leaves scabrous, hispid, toothed. Receptacles 

 peduncled, globose, 1 in. in diameter, yellow or 

 purple F. asperrima. 



Leaves opposite. Receptacles peduncled, fasci- 

 cled on the old wood or on leafy branches, 

 hispid, yellowish, sometimes hypogeal ... ... F. hisp'uhi. 



Leaves alternate, membranous, glabrous. Recep- 

 tacles large on short, axillary branches, scaly 

 and leafless, from the trunk, red F. rjlomerala. 



P. gibbosa, Bltime Bijd. 4G6 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 496 ; F. jmrasitica, Koen. ; 

 Bcdd. Fl. Sylv. 224; Brandis For. Fl. 420; UrosHgma ampelos, Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 315 ; U. voluhUe, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 242 ; F. 

 tuberculata, Bedd. Fl, Sylv. 224. Datir, Vera. Throughout the pre- 

 sidency, common on old walls or on the sides of Vi^ells, also epiphytic •; 

 throughout the moist and diy forests of the western ghats. Fruit ripe 

 Apl., May. 



P. bengalensis, Linn. Hort. Cliff. 471, n. 4 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 499 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. 222; Brandis For. Y\. 412 ; F. inclica, Hoxh.; Urostigma 

 hengalense, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl, 240. Banyan tree. Wad, alada, vadi, 

 Vern. Throughout the presidency, wild or planted ; self-sown throughout 

 the deciduous and evergreen forests of the western ghats. Dr. King in 

 his Spec'es of Ficus says "really wild only in the sub-Himalayan forests 

 and on the lower slopes of the hill ranges of Southern India. " Fruit 

 ripe, Api'il-June. 



P. mysorensis, Heyne in B.oth. Nov. Sp. 390; Fl. Br. T. 5. 500 ; Brandis 



For. Fl. 414; King. Sp. Ficus 19; Bedd.Fl. Sylv. 222 ; F. puhescens, Roth. 



Urostigma dasijcaypum, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 242. Bhurvar, M. 



Throughout the Konkan and North Kanara. in moist forests along the 



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