454 URTICACER. | Ficus. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of Chittagong, Pegu, and 
Martaban down to Tenasserim, especially along choungs.—Fr. May-Aug.— 
s.—SS.—Metam. SiS. 
RemaRrKs.—Wood yellowish or white, with darker-coloured annular rings, 
turning brownish, rather light, of a coarse fibre, rather close-grained, soft, soon 
attacked by xylophages. 
36. F. callosa, Willd—An evergreen tree (40—60+20—30 
4+5—8), but fruiting already while still a shrub, all parts glab- 
rous; stipules lanceolate, appressed-pubescent ; leaves oblong to 
elliptical, rounded or obtuse at the base, on a thick petiole 3-3 im. 
long, blunt or bluntish and obscurely apiculate, 6-8 in. (in saplin 
1-14 ft.) long, thin-coriaceous, entire, glabrous, yellowish green, 
beneath somewhat roughish to the touch, the lateral nerves strong 
and prominent, curved and uniting, the net-veination lax ; recep- 
tacles almost turbinate-globular, the size of a large cherry, abruptly 
contracted in a short stalk or almost sessile, minutely puberulous, 
on puberulous peduncles 3-1 in. long, usually solitary or by pairs 
in the axils of the leaves; bracts persistent, small, triangular, con- 
cave, opposite, puberulous. 
Haxs.—In the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the Pegu Yomah, 
more frequent in those of Martaban and Tenasserim down to the Andamans.— 
Fr. Apr.-May.—s.—SS.—Metam. SiS., etc. 
ReMARxKS.— Wood yellowi i rous. rather close-grai 
Simca bali ya re i light, coarsely fibrous, grained, 
37. F, ramentacea, Roxb.—An evergreen large stem-clasping 
shrub, climbing high up into the trees, the young shoots brown, 
sparingly and shortly puberulous ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, greyish 
pubescent ; leaves ovate to elliptically ovate, on a strong indistinctly 
puberulous petiole }-3? in. long, rounded at the base, acute to shortly 
acuminate, 5-7 in. long, rigidly coriaceous, entire, glabrous oF 
(especially while young) sparingly appressed-hairy on the mid- 
rib; receptacles globular or somewhat depressed-globular, the siz 
of a small cherry, slightly umbonate, bright crimson, glabrous, 
narrowed into a short stalk, on short 1-1} lin. long peduncles, soli- 
tary or by pairs in the axils of the leaves or above the scars of the 
fallen ones; bracts 3, at the apex of the peduncle, deciduous, 
glabrous. - 
‘Has.—Not unfrequent in th i the 
Pegu Yomah ; also Chittagong che Mantcare oo oe ten. 
38. F. pomifera , Kz.—An evergreen scandent shrub, all parts 
glabrous ; stipules finear-lanceolate, glabrous ; leaves obovate oF 
somewhat rhomboid-obovate, on a roughish petiole 3-4 lin. long, 
almost cuneate at the base, 1-24 in. long, blunt or somewhat 
almos aa 
notched, glabrous, coriaceous, with the borders somewhat recurved, — 
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