436 URTICACER. [ Ficus. 
the axils of the leaves, or arising from the trunk or from radical 
leafless shoots 
A os Reseiiall by pairs, or solitary from the axils of the leaves 
or from above the scars of the fallen ones (never from the 
stem or root-shoots). 
* Leaves more or less thick-coriaceous to almost charta- 
ceous, gla 
monandrous. Stigma filiform stain 
—_ rae 2-cleft.—Trees or arboreous stem-clasping 
‘ Oo Petioles. Secally thick and short, rarely slender, not 
jointed and thickened we the consi - bey bla de. 
coriac 
bate ck, 
usually short in comparison with the “blades recep= 
mse ee the size of a large or small cherry. 
x Leaves 3-5-plinerved, shortly pubescent or, while 
yo ung, floc: 
both sides; 
pea se ile gi us, floccose or ‘aaeabowe. more 
Leaves shortly pubescent baicaih, blunt or Spent 3 young shoots 
and stipules puberulous . F. Bengalensis. 
eee sabres shortly acuminate ; ; young receptacles floccose 5 $ 
stipules rusty or tawn, F. Mysurensis. 
Leaves and oe while oe covered with a 1 floccose rusty- 
coloured da sti wny villous-pubescent . F. pilosa. 
xx Leaves pulls a “eae rous. 
Branchlets roughish from usty-coloured asperities ; leaves pen- 
ninerved, shortly acuminate ; bracts deciduous . F. onusta, 
Pr exes leaves ry. co Steen A: or blunt apiculate bracts 
us, persistent F. laccifera. 
As Pa but a shat stipules and bracts: puberulous, the 
latter falling off already in bud . F. altissina. 
brous ; leaves A preitec scuminate ina a dried state brownish 
beneath ; bracts glabrous, persiste’ . F. Indica, 
Glabrous ; leaves very thick-cori coriaceous 8, ed or 0 obtuse at bas 
the lateral nerves very thin and inconspicuous ; petiole eshort F. obtusifolia. 
Tf Leaves as in former, but receptacles on a shorte 
— ger peduncle, the size of a cherry to that of ne 
sit 
— 
Glabrous erved, pale-coloured beneath ; peduncles 
very | short pags thik, -Yillows pubasos ent . ae A annulata, 
Glabrous ; leaves penninerved, acuminate ; ; peduncles 3- 5 lin. long, ; 
stl Thomson. 
tit Leaves large, coriaceous, the lateral nerves all thin 
runnin set. : 
Glabrous ; petals ane wats thi ck; stipules up to 6 in. long, red . F, elastica, 
ttIt Leaves 
iac m 
thin, more or less crowded and Receanerbat tipo 
wi . oe BL aa ©. = 
net-veination between 
X Receptacles sessile or shortly peduncled, size 
and shape of a pea or smaller. All parts glabrous. 
