Cudrania.| . URTICACER, 435 
mi arising by pairs from the axils of the leaves ; syncarp irregularly 
bular, the size of a cherry, velvety and glaucous-green; seeds 
<i large as a small pea, ovoid, enveloped in the broad enlarged 
perianths and protruding from the fleshy centre. 
Has.—Ava; Chittagong; Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. Oct.-Nov.; Fr. Feb.- 
pr. 
3. C. pubescens, Tréc.—Downg-hyet-tek.—An evergreen, large, 
woody etimber: armed with long, straiglit, sharp spines, the 
young branchlets pubescent, the stem Leste proanie’s grey, lenti- 
cellate; cut milky; leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, slender 
puberulous petiole about 4 in. long, siete at “he Bilas, 4-6 in. 
long, abruptly and rather long and thinly acuminate with a mucro, 
entire, membranous, above slightly, beneath softly, but shortly 
pubescent, the lateral nerves prominent ; flower-heads globular, on 
slender puberulous peduncles } an in. long, arising by pairs Boni 
the axils of the leaves ; styles simple, flexuose ; synearps irregularly 
globular, the size of a large cherry, fleshy and compact, velvety and 
wrinkled, glaucous-green; seeds several, imbedded in the fleshy 
connate perianths. 
HAs.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the eastern ag es of the 
Pega Yomah aa jae up to 3,000 ft. elevation—Fr. March-Apr.—s : 1. 
ReEMARKS.— Wood white. 
. FICUS, L. | 
Flowers monoecious, covering the inner side of the receptacles 
of a globular to pear-shaped outline, — Peri anth 3-5-phyllous, 
tary ovule; style short or teow more or less lateral, with a 
simple, linear or unequally 2-cleft or funnel-shaped stigma, rarely 
the stigmas of all the flowers united in a disk. Achenes minute, 
somewhat crustaceous, enclosed or surrounded by the perianth, if 
present. Embryo in the centre of the Hay or thin albumen.— 
Trees or r shrubs, often scandent or epiphytical and stem-clasping, 
with alternate, rarely opposite, simple or lobed leaves. Stipules 
lateral, more or less deciduous. Receptacles (figs) from the . 
size of a ci pea to that of an apple, sessile or peduncled, con- 
tracted in a stalk or not, inside naked or rarely rigidly pilose 
between the Gowan, usaally by pairs or by abortion solitary in 
