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Upper and Lower. Fr. edible, ripe May-Sept. — Perak. 52. F. prostrata. Wall.: King. Ann 

 i. 1. 135. Sikkim, outer ranges, ascending to 5,000 ft. Khasi hills. Cachar. A glabrous 

 shrub or small tree, often creep- 

 ing. L. lanceolate, entire, long 

 acuminate, blade 6-10, pet. i in., 

 stipules as long as pet. Eecep- 

 tacles I in. diam., in the axils of 

 scarious bracts, solitary or in 

 short racemes, on long prostrate 

 branches. 53. F. Ribes, Eeinwdt. : 

 King, Ann. i. t. 144. South 

 Tenasserim iKurz). Malay 

 Penins. and Archip. New 

 Guiuea. Similar to 52, shoots 

 strigose with minute hair?. 1. 

 3-5 in., receptacles J in. diam. 

 This and some allied species are 

 dioecious Solms-Laubach in R A . 

 Zeit. 1885, 534). 54 F. fistulosa, 

 Eeinwdt.; King. Ann. i. tt. 150, 

 151. Khasi bills. Chittagong. 

 Lower Burma (KurzJ. Malay 

 Penins. and Archip. Formosa. 

 (Kurz'a F.Jistuloaa probably also 

 les F. Miquelii, King, a 

 Malayan Bpeeies.)— A shrub or 

 small tree, branches stout, often 

 hollow, nodes of young shoots 

 minutely hairy, 1. some- 

 -it>-. glabrous, gran- 

 ulate beneath, entire or slightly 

 serrate, elongate-elliptic, blade 

 4- in, pet. J-1J in. long, stipules 

 scarious. Receptacles J-l in. 

 diam., axillary, or on the old 



up to lh in. long. 



- . VI. Eusyce. (J li.as 

 a rule diandrous lepidosa 1, 

 hirta l-->. iu moralis and 

 /■<■ vis 2 or 3, Carica gener- 

 ally 3 stamens) in the same 

 receptacle with gall fl. 9 

 fl. in distinct receptacles. L. alternate, receptacles axillary. 



A. Erect shrubs or trees. 



" Branchiate and underside of I. densely hairy : 1. dentate, serrate or 

 lobed. 



F. palmata, F>rsk.: Collett Simla Fl. 460, fig. 11*: King, Ann. i. 1 185.— Syn. 

 Boxb.; P. virgata, Roxb. ; Wight let. 649. Vern. Bedu, Khemri, Hind. ; 

 Phagvoara, llaz. ; Pheru, Jauns.; Kembri, Merw. Baluchistan. Eastern slopes of the 

 Suleiman range. Bait range and plains of the Punjab. ftft.Abu. Merwara. North- 

 West Himalaya from the fool to 5,000, on the Sntlej to 9JO00 ft., eastwards a- far as 

 Nepal. Cultivated in North India. A smaU cir middle-sized tree, bark smooth, g 

 branches >"Iid n ith a large pith, branchleto, petioles, young shoots and underside of I. 

 L rough above, broad-ovate, dentate, at times deeply lobed, basetrun- 

 cate nr cordat'-.srmiet im.-s abruptly narro i petiole, blade 8-5, |--;. 1-2 in. 



:: 5basalnerves,sec.n. onmidrib8-6pair. Perianth ciliate with long hairs. Beoepf 

 axillary, more or less pear-shaped, J.-i in. diam.. usually pubescent, yellow, edible when 

 ripe, basal bracts deciduous, at the base of the stalk, which often lengthens ou1 

 Jin., as the fr. ripens, peduncle }- J in. "ni. F. lulva, Eeinwdt. ; King, Ann. i. t. 187. 

 Andamans and Ni. ..Lars. —Malay Penins. and Archip. L. ovat.-. denticulate, often 

 deeply lobed. Receptacles sessile, \ in. diam., densely hairy, perianth glabrous. 57, 

 P. Carica, Linn.; Hemsley in Trans. Linn. s... . --- - Laubaoh in Bot. 



Z.-it. L885. 562. Tht fig tret. Vem. Anjir. Hind. Indigenous in Bain. 1: - 

 Afghanistan, Western A>ia and • ranean region. Cultivated in 



N. W. India and the Uecaii. A shrub or small d( ranchlete and under- 



Fig. 18*. — Ficus Cunia. Ham. A. 



