446 URTICACER. [ Ficus. 
on the upper side, the lateral nerves rather crowded, parallel, thin, 
and uniting near the margin, the net-veination parallel ; receptacles 
abruptly narrowed in a longer or shorter stalk, usually by pairs 
in the axils of the Lares globular or nearly so, the size of a large 
pea to that of a cherry, glabrous, blood-red when fully ripe; bracts 
very deciduous, only present in the bud. 
Var. 1, nuda proper: Led aay the size of a large pea, on a 
very short stalk or almost 
Var. 2, mac oe ssi the size of a cherry, narrowed 
in a stalk 2-3 lin. lon 
Hazs.—Var. 2: in “ty sropieal forests of the eastern slopes of the Pegu 
Yomah sete choungs ; also in Tenasserim.—s.— is. 
benjamina, L.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 222.— An evergreen — : 
. F. 
em Goes 12—20 +68), with a dense divaricate crown and 
pendulous branches, all parts glabrous; stipules small, lanceolate, 
glabrous; leaves ovate to. elliptically ovate, on a sl lender petiole 
5-8 lin. long, obtuse at the base, rather long and bluntish acumi- 
nate, 2-34 in. long, rigidly chartaceous, eutire, glabrous, the nerves 
thin, much crowded and uniting near the margin, all parallel with 
a transverse net-veination between, prominent on both sides ; recep- 
tacles sessile, by pairs or solitary in the axils of the leaves, globular — 
or — obovate and narrowed at the base, varying in size 
4 to y } in. in diameter, blood-red when fully tip) glabrous, 
3- oe ‘ine tears broad, but short, rounded, glabrous 
bing 1, benjamina proper: receptacles globular, stout § in. 
TOs 
2, comosa (’. comosa, Roxb. ; Bedd. Sylv. Mops 923) : 
dasbpeialasd 4 to nearly 3 in. thick, narrowed at the bas 
Has.—Var. 1: in the tropical forests of the pacayate) var. a. 
quent in similar forests, especially along ghouney, from A icine down 
to Tenasserim.—Fr. Nov.-Apr.—s. X xL—83.— SiS. Metam., "aes 
18. F. infectoria, Willd.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., 222 ; Brand. For. 
Fl., 414.—Nyoung-chin.—A Jeaf-shedding (?) tree (50—6-+ 015— 
20-+5—9) , with a large dense crown, all parts glabrous, the a 
branchlets comparatively slender ; stipules short, ovate, acute; 
minutely and i as ee ; leaves oblong 7 : 
the base, the nerves all prominent on both sides, rather ‘stat a: 
and arcuately uniting towards the acess the net-veination ¢ 
and conspicuous on both sides; receptacles sessile or nearly 7 
