Ficus] C. MORACEJE 609 



Himalaya from Hazara eastwards ii-7.tMio ft. Assam. Khasi hills. Behar. Chitta- 

 gong. ilartaban ('?). — China. Japan. Creeping or climbing, rooting at the nodes, 

 sometimes erect. Branchlets, petioles, underside of 1. as a rule pubescent. L. 

 rigidly membranous to thinly coriaceous, entire, ovate or elliptic to lanceolate, 

 blade 3-8, pet. J-J in., sec. n. 8^10 pair, the lowest pair basal, tertiary n. joined by 

 closely and elegantly reticulate veins. Keceptaeles hairy, solitary, globose or ovoid, 

 J-j in. diain., usually pedunculate, basal bracts ovate. The barren creeping 



- have -mall 1., and send out fl. -bearing branches with much larger 1., in 

 the same manner as F. pumila, Linn., of the same section from China and Japan, 



monly cultivated on walls in India. 68. F. ramentacea, Boxb. ; King, Ann. i. t. 

 169. Sikkim, hot vaUeys. Assam. Silhet. Chittagong. Pegu Yoma. — Malay Penins. 

 and Arehip. China. A large epiphytic (limber, stems 50-60 ft. long, at times a tree, 

 1. glossy, bright green, nearly glabrous, entire, ovate or elliptic, blade 4-10, pet. j-lA in. 

 long, sec. n. 4-8 pair, prominent beneath, the lowest pair basal. Becept. %-k in.diam., 

 axillary, solitary or clustered, sessile or on short peduncles. 69. F. crininervia, Miq. ; 

 King, Ann. i. t. 173. Assam. Chittagong. Malay Arehip. Creeping, stems and 

 branches rooting. Young shoots, branchlets, petioles and underside of 1. (chiefly along 

 midrib and nerves) densely silky with long tawny hairs, 1. coriaceous, entire, ovate- 

 oblong, base cordate, finely reticulate. Becept. J-A in. diain. 70. F. scandens, Boxb.; 

 Wight Ic. t. 643 ; King, Ann. i. 1. 162. Subhimalayan tract and outer range-, a set tid- 

 ing to 4,000 ft., from Kuniaon eastwards. Behar. Khasi hills. Lower Burma. A 

 large scandent shrub, rooting at the ni des, trailing on rocks and ascending tall trees, 

 branchlets and I. slightly rough. L. chartaceous, entire, ovate, blade 3-5, pet. J-l in., 

 sec. n. prominent, 1 -6 pair, the lowest pair basal. Beceptacles globose, solitary or in 

 pairs, ', in. diam., peduncles j in. 71. F. lsevis, Blume: King, Ann. i. t. 161. Himalaya 

 outer hills, ascending to 5000 ft., from Nepal eastwards. Assam. Khasi hills. Cachar. 

 Often epiphytic, 1. broadly ovate, entire or nearly so, base often cordate, blade 6-9, 

 pet. 1.1,-3 in. long, upperside glabrous excepting the nerves, underside more or less 

 pubescent. Becept. A-l in. diam., axillary, usually solitary. 



Sect. VII. NeomorpJie. £ fl. as a rule diandrous (F. Clarkei often has 3 

 stamens in the same receptacle with gall fl. 2 in distinct receptacles. F. 

 glornerata, 1ms nil 3 kinds of fl. in the same receptacle. Trees, never epiphytic, 

 some species climbing, 1. alternate. Receptacles in dense clusters from tubercles 

 on the trunk and larger branches, often very large. 



A. Erect trees. 



(a) L. sen-ate or denticulate, base often cordate, petiole long. 



72. F. Roxburghii, Wall.: King, Ann. i. front ispieceand t. 211. — Syn. F. macrophylla, 

 Boxb.; Wight [c. t. ' ; T ." l . Vern. Burma! , llaz.: Timla, Tirmal, Hind.: Sinthapan, 

 Burin. Subhimalayan tract and outer Himalaya, ascending to 6,000 ft. Chutia 

 Nagpur. Orissa. Khasi hills. Mnnipiir. Chittagong. Burma. — Hainan. Formosa. 

 A >mall or middle-sized tree, branchlets liollow, young shoots and stipules minutely 

 velvety, petioles ami underside of I. softly pubescent. L. broadly ovate, entire or 

 dentate, base deeplj cordate, sometimes rounded, basal n. 5 7, blade 8-18, pet. 1 6 in. 

 Beceptacles sometimes narrowed into a stalk, up to | in. lone;, at the base of which are 

 :; broad bracts, peduncle j 2 in. long. Fr. depressed-turbinate, 2-3 in. diam., longi- 

 Inally ribbed, russet-brown or purple when ripe, edible, in targe often immense 



clusters upon short thick lea tie— branches from the trunk, often near the gr I. and 



from the larger branches. For the development of 9. and their fertilization see 

 D. D.Cunningham's paper in the appendix to Ann. Qard. Cole. i. 7:'.. F. pomifera, 

 Wall.; King, Ann. i. t. 215. — Syn. F. regia, Miq. in Subhimalayan ti 



ending to 3,000 ft Khasi hills. Chittagong, Martaban and 

 ! ■■■ isserim. Mala} Penu Arehip. A tall tree, neai rous, I. coarsely 



: ni ni. -Ian.-. ■..Li ■ in. pet. 2 5 in. Fr. globose or pyrifonn, 1 in. 



<l in in. i'ii peduncles up to 2] in., on short leafless branches. 7 I. F. variegata, Blume : 

 King. Ann. i. tt. 212, 218. — Syn. /■' raccmifera, Roxb. ; Wight Ic. t. 689. Chittogi 

 Andamana. Malay Penins. and Arehip. \ i" ; spreading tree, glabrous, dnli 

 minutely pubescent. 1.. ovate, repand or denticulate, base cordate or rounded, blade 

 I 7. pel. i jin. Fr. red, in. diam., peduncles j 2 in. long, fascicled on woody 



tubercles on t he old wood. 



h \j. entire, base acute or rounded, ] i .-rally short. 



7.".. F. glornerata. Roxb. Cor. Pl.t. 128; ' 667 Bi F. Fl. t 19; King, 



\i, 118. 119 Syn, F. Chittagonga, Miq. Vern. Cmar, Oular, Bind : /' mbal, 



aba; Umori, Merw.; 1 rn&ar, 1 Mar.; An!, Tel.; Thapan, Pi lliapan, Burm. 



Salt range. Subhimalayan tract tit d out< r valleys, in ravines, on the lunik- of rivers, 

 and in damp places, Ajmere and Merwara, Mounl V.bi ■ Behar. Chutia Nogpur 

 Bengal plains. Khasi hills. Chittagong. Lower Burma. Dry region of the Ira wadd 



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