Ficus.] URTICACER. 449 
uniting near the margin, the net-veination lax ; receptacles depressed- 
globular, the size of a large pea or somewhat larger, when fully 
at the base, the bracts persistent (at least the inner ones), broad 
and conspicuous, smooth or shortly pubescent. 
His.—Rare in the moister upper mixed forests along choungs in the Pegu 
Yomah ; sometimes cultivated in villages.—s. xl.—SS.=SiS., ete. 
’ ood uniformly yellowish white, very light, coarsely fibrous, 
perishable, takes an inferior polish. . 
24. F. triloba, Ham.—An evergreen tree (20—30+8—12 + 
2—3), all softer parts brown- or tawny-hispid ; stipules appressed- 
pubescent or hirsute, ovate-oblong, acuminate ; leaves variable, on a 
very hirsute petiole varying in length from } to 4 in. and more, 
ovate, cordate or oblong in outline, more or less 3-5-lobed, with 
the lobes acute or blunt, rounded or cordate at the palmately 5-7- 
nerved base, shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, 6-12 in. long, 
serrate, membranous, hirsute above, densely and rather softly 
hirsute-pubescent beneath ; receptacles turbinate-globular, umbo- 
nate, sessile, more or less hirsute from stiff tawny hairs, varying in 
size from that of a small cherry to nearly } in. in diameter, 
occasionally with some rather large bracts at its circumference, by 
pairs or solitary in the axils of the leaves or above the scars of the 
fallen ones ; bracts large, ovate, acuminate, about 3-4 lin. long, 
appressed-pubescent. 
__ Has.—Frequent in the damp hill forests and freely springing up in deserted 
- hill toungyas in the Martaban hills, at 3,000 to 5,000 ft. elevation —Fr. March 
—s.—SS.—=Metam. 
25. F. hirta, Vhl 
the branches hispid hisp 
back ; leaves 8-lobed or undivided, in general outline obovate to 
he 
but: thinly pubescent, 3-nerved at the base, and often with 2 
additional shorter nerves; receptacles turbinate-ovoid to almost 
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