BENGAL PLANTS. [ Ficus. 
fallen leaves, and tubercles on the stem and older branches, or 
on short, leafless branches from the old wood in the same indi- 
vidual (§ Covellia in part) :— 
Erect small trees or shrubs; leaves sparse, sometimes all 
opposite, sometimes all alternate, rather broad, more or less 
ovate or oblong, or obovate-lanceolate ; receptacles 
never ribbed, smetines axillary, sometimes clustered on the 
stems and bra 
All parts ae except the young shoots, which are beset 
with a few stiff, adpressed hairs; stipules scarious; recep- 
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All parts more or less hispid-pubescent; stipu a mem- 
brano f in whorls of 4 on leafless fruit-bearing 
axillary, in others all on branches from stem near the root, 
in still itn occupying both situations ; leav es segs all 
opposite ispi a. 
Spreading shrubs ; leaves cnn, always all opposite, narrow!y 
lanceolate or oblanceolate, young parts densely but deciduously 
hirsute ; receptacles 8-1 einny solitary by abortion of one © 
pair, in the axils of leaves or of fallen leaves, or on short, 
leafless branches from the old wood laminosa. 
q tacles confined to specialised branches bearing scales, but 
ithe rarely leaves, issuing from the e of the stem near the 
und from the larger acta ; small, erect trees with 
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Fruit-bearing branches short, much ramified; receptacles long- 
pedunceled, nearly smooth ; leaves 5 Seas ovate, sik or very 
slightly unequal at the base; petioles long, 1-5-6 in 
Fruit-bearing branches long, little branched ; receptacles short- 
peduneled, hispid; leaves long, rather saris lanceolate, 
very unequally subauriculate, a at the base; petio 
short, -3--6 in. .-Cunia. 
§Flowers in male receptacles almost always with 2 stamen rarely 
(F. levis) with sometimes 2, sometimes 3 stamens, or (F. varias) 
tam ith 1 
axils nor on specialised branches near the base of the stem :—{p- 975] 
©Receptacles all axillary or occasionally (F. ramentacea) bow 
