444 URTICACER. [ Ficus. 
veination lax and thin; receptacles on slender 3-5 lin. long 
peduncles marked at their end with the scars of the fallen very 
deciduous bracts, usually by pairs in the axils of the leaves, obovate- 
globular, not or indistinctly stalked, the size of a large pea or 
larger, orange-coloured, smooth ; bracts not seen. 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim.—Fr. March. 
diverging, somewhat arcuate, uniting towards the margin, the net- 
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14 in. long, shortly and bluntish acuminate or apiculate, entire, 
coriaceous, glabrous, the nerves all very crowded and thin, regularly 
parallel, uniting near the margin; receptacles sessile on the cup- 
like base of the fallen bracts, usually by pairs in the axils of the 
leaves, oblong, the size of an olive, smooth, greenish yellow ; bracts 
very deciduous, glabrous, leaving a short almost entire cup under 
the ripe receptacle. 
Has.—Frequent in Upper Burma, where whole forests of this species are 
said to exist in the valley of Hookhoom. 
Remarxs.—Yields the Indian caoutchouk of commerce. 
12. F. retusa, L.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., 223; Brand. For. Fl. 
417.— Nyoung-op.—An evergreen tree (50—60 + 12—30+ 6—12), 
often stem-clasping, all parts glabrous; leaves variable in size and 
shape, oblong to obovate and obovate-oblong, obtuse at the base, 0D 
a short petiole up to 4 in. long, blunt or bluntish apiculate, 2-5 
in. long, entire, coriaceous, glabrous, 3-plinerved, the lateral nerves 
thin and tolerably parallel, anastomosing towards the margin, the 
_ parallel net-veination thin ; receptacles sessile, by pairs or solitary 10 
the axils of the leaves or above the scars of the fallen ones, glo- 
bular, the size of a pea, greenish yellow, glabrous, 3-bracted, the 
bracts persistent, ovate, concave, glabrous. : 
Var. 2, macrocarpa: leaves larger, almost 5-plinerved at the 
base, the nerves stronger; receptacles twice the size of those 2 
the normal form, orange-coloured, the bracts much smaller. 
Hazs.—Frequent, more especially in the tropical forests along choungs, 
also in all other kinds of forests, even in the tidal ones, all over ue 
the adjacent provinces down to Tenasserim and the Andamans; var. 2: ini oe 
tropical pe of the eastern slopes of the Pegu Yomah and in Martaban.—*™ 
13. F, affinis, Wall—An evergreen tree (40—50+10—15 + 
4—6), with a dense large crown, all parts glabrous; stipul short 
and small, ovate-lanceolate, glabrous; leaves elliptic 
oblong, obtuse or rounded at the base, bluntish and rather 
