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Ficus.| URTICACER, 443 
8. F. obtusifolia, Roxb.—Nyoung-kyap.—An evergreen tree 
(50—70 + 15—40 + 6—12), stem-clasping or independent, all parts 
glabrous; bark grey, about a line thick, rather smooth, with corky 
pustules ; cut reddish, milky; stipules linear-lanceolate, glabrous ; 
leaves from oblong and elliptical to obovate-oblong, often somewhat 
unequal at the acute or obtuse base, on a short thick petiole 6-8 lin, 
thin, anastomosing near the margin, the veination thin and lax ; 
receptacles sessile, by pairs in the axils of the leaves or from above 
the sears of the fallen ones, somewhat triangular-globular, the size 
of asmall cherry, glabrous, sprinkled with minute pale-coloured 
pustules, yellowish, bracted, the bracts persistent, large, roundish 
cordate, blunt, smooth. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests from Chittagong and Ava down to 
Tenasserim.—F'r. Nov.-Apr.—s X L.—SS.=Si8. Metam., ete. 
Remarxs.—Wood white, coarsely fibrous. Exudes a rather good quality of 
uk 
_ caoutchouk. 
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tern sl f the Pegu Yomah 
and from Martaban down to Tenasserim.—Fr. Oct.-March.—s.—SS.=SiS. 
» ete, 
Metam. 
RemarKs.—Wood yellowish, turning pale brown, rather heavy, soft and 
Perishable. Yields a rather good quality of caoutchouk. 
. 10. F. Thomsoni, Miq.—A tree, all pa 
linear-subulate, glabrous ; leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 
acute or obtuse at the base, on }-1 in. long petiole, bluntish 
uminate, 5-7 in. long, chartaceous, when full-grown coriaceous, 
entire, glabrous, 3-plinerved, the lateral nerves rather remote- 
