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Archip. Formosa. A shrub or small tree, branchlets i-ough with short stiff hairs and 

 scales, b. tli inly membranous, very unequal-sided, unequally serrate, rough with raised 

 dots an 1 minute stiff hairs, chiefly along the nerves, blade 4-l<>, pet. f-J in. Fr. J-iJ in. 



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187.— Ficus clavata. Wall. ',. 

 form with globosa receptnrli-.i 



bracts on the Outer surface, no basal bracts, reddish or 

 in. 42. F. asperrima, Roxb. ; Wight to. t.633; King 



branchlets rough wit h shun si ill' hairs. L. rough cm l»'t b sides wit h ra ised d"ts, more 

 or less densely pubescenl beneath, elliptic, orenate in the upper part, blade 8-5, pet. 

 j- 1 in., see. n. ■)-."> pair, the lowest pair basal, often extending beyond the half of leaf. 

 Fr. globose, hispid, !■ I in, diam., yellow when ripe, peduneles I in. long. 1:1. F. 



Assam. A shrub, branchlets and 

 Fr. in axillary pairs j in., 



diam. with 1 or 2 wart-like 



orange when ripe, peduncle ,., 



Ann. i. 1. 100. Rocky bed of "Pranhita river," Chanda district. Sills of the Western 



Peninsula. — Ceylon, moist region, common. A shrub or small tree, aerial roots 



branchlel 3 rough with shorl st iff hairs. L. rough on both sides with raised dot 



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I* r. gloho.se, liis] 



bhotanica, King. Ann. i. t. 'Jii:, ,,. Ka-.tein Huars 



underside ..f |. pubescent, 1. membranous deeply lobed 



peduncle ,\ in. lung. 



H. Oeeping. strangling or do'iiinlinnt shrubs. 



II. F. roatrata, Lamk. ; King, Ann. t. 110.— Syn. F. radicans, Roxb.; Wight let, 

 671; /•'. uniglandulosa, Wall. Bhutan. Assam. Khasi hills. Cachar. Chi tt agon g. 

 Lower Burma. Malay Penins. Climbing or creeping, rooting at the nodes, growing 



on trees and wnlls. I,, thinly coriai us, elliptic or elongate-elliptic, apex" abruptly 



caudate-acuminate, often with a few coarse irregular teeth in the upper pan. mil 

 lineai. | it. in. long, blade 4-10, pet. J-J in., .see, n. WS pair, prominent beneath, 

 terminating in arching intramarginal nerves, which extend from the base to the tip 

 of the leaf, intermediate and terl iary n.as well a> reticulate veins conspicuous beneath, 

 stipules minute. Receptacles hispid. ] in. diam.. pedunculate or nearly sessile, in 

 fascicles of 2 ><, axillary or above the scars of fallen 1. Ovary stalked, stigma eylindric 

 blunt. In. F. querclfolla, Roxb.; Wight t. 646; King, Ann i. t. 93 Syn. /•'. humilU, 

 h'u\i>. : Wight le. t. 685: /■'. anaitomotans, Wall. Tenasserim. — Malay Penins. and 

 Archip. A creeping or decumbent shrub. Branchlets hispid with shorl hair-. I. 

 thi&kly membranous, lanceolate, coarsely eremite or lobed, blade 2 8, pet. | \ in. Fr. 

 crimson, depressed, 1 I in. diam.. ped. | Jin. 16. P. nigrescens, King, Ann. i. t. 95*. 

 Minipur and Nagd bills, A small creeping shrub, rooting at the nodes, 1. pubescent 

 beneath, minutely hairy above, ovate, toothed, blade 1 2, pet. pubescent, \ | in., stipules 



