452 URTICACER. [ Ficus, 
above the scars of the fallen ones, at the insertion of the stalk 
furnished with 4-5 small, ovate, glabrous, persistent bracts. 
Has.—Rather frequent in the tropical and mixed forests, especially in the 
vicinity of choungs, along the eastern slopes of the Pegu Yomah and of Mart 
ban; also Chittagong and the Andamans.—Fr. Feb.-May.—s. : ]—SS.—Me 
Si 
RemarKs.—Wood yellowish, rather light, coarsely fibrous, rather close- 
ined. 
31. F. radicans, Roxb.—An evergreen shrub, usually scandent, 
the young branchlets minutely hispid and rough; leaves from 
oblong and elliptical to obovate-oblong, somewhat unequal and often 
angular expanded to almost rhomboid-obovate, acute or obtuse at the 
base, on a rough petiole 3-4 lin. long, rather abruptly produced into 
a bluntish, long, tail-shaped acumen, 2-4 in. long, rigidly charta- 
ceous, glabrous, or a little rough beneath, 3-nerved at the base, 
with only 3-4 lateral nerves at each side, which are very prominent 
beneath and unite with the strong veins and net-veination ; recep- 
tacles globular or nearly so, the size of a large pea or larger, um- 
bonate, very rough from minute appressed bristles, orange-coloured, 
with paler spots, abruptly contracted into a slender very rough stalk 
_ of 3-4 lin. in length, sessile, usually by pairs in the axils of the 
leaves, with minute, ovate, acute, persistent bracts at the insertion 
of the stalk. 
Var. 2, abnormis ; leaves of a thinner texture, green, obscurely 
crenate-toothed upwards ; receptacles smooth, short-peduncled, with 
3 bracts at the base, but not stalked. Similar to / obtusidens, 
but the receptacles appear peduncled (possibly stalked, with the 
bracts moved upwards ?). 
Has.—Upper Tenasserim; var. 2: in old toungyas of Martaban east of 
Tounghoo.—Fr. March. 
32. F, subulata, Bl—An evergreen large scandent shrub, all 
labrous; stipules linear-subulate, about 4-4 in. long and 
longer, glabrous; leaves oblique, elliptical to oblong-lanceolate, 
acute at the unequal base, on a 1-2 lin. long petiole, long but 
bluntish acuminate, entire or obscurely repand-toothed, glabrous; 
arising from the circumference, glabrous, abruptly narrowed into & 
its length 
and similar ones at its base ; bracts minute, ovate, acute, g — 
