424 LXVII. UETICACE^. IFicus. 



by 3 membranous bracts. Style long filiform, undividecl. Wan^u bridge, 

 Sutlej valley, Kamaon, ascending to 7500 ft, Sikkim, Bhutan (a middle-sized 

 tree, with red, fleshy fruit. Griff. It. not. 137), Kasia hiUs. Probably = F. 

 reticulata, Miq. Ann. iii. 294 (identified with F. scandens, Eoxb., in Stewart 

 Pb. Plants, 214), and F. Luducca, Roxb. 534 ; Madden As. Soc. Joum. xviii. i. 

 644 — Vem. £abra, AJmora. 



2. F. nemoralis, Wall. Cat. 4517. Glabrous. Leaves membranous, lanceo- 

 late, long-acuminate, main lateral nerves arcuate, 10-16 pair, with numerous 

 shorter intermediate ones, joined by very fine, distinct, but not prominent reticu- 

 late veins, blade 5-6, petiole -^ in. long. Male fl. numerous, mixed with females, 

 2-3-androus ; perianth red, of 3-4 lanceolate segments, anthers large, basifixed, 

 on short filaments ; female perianth of 3-4 lanceolate subconcave segments ; style 

 short. Fruit globose, J in. diam., in pairs, pedunculate but not stipitate, sup- 

 ported at its base by 3 acute membranous bracts. Outer Himalaya, from the 

 Jhelam to Sikkim, ascending to 7000 ft. 



3. F. pubigera, Wall. Cat. No. 4518, identified hj Miquel with F. erect'a, 

 Thunb. (Ami. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 294). Extremities and petioles hairy. 

 Leaves glabrous, or with floccose hairs beneath, oblong-lanceola,te, entire, long- 

 acuminate, main lateral nerves 8-10 pair, blade 5-8, petiole J in. long. Fruit 

 hairy, globose, f in. diam., short-pedunculate but not stipitate. Kamaon, as- 

 cending to .3000 ft. Nepal, Sikkim, Assam, Kasia hUls. 



A remarkable shrub, of the subgenus Covellia, common on banks of rivers 

 and in rocky river-beds in Sikkim, Kasia, the hUls of Oudh and Kamaon, is (4.) 

 F. tuberculaia, Wall. Cat. No. 4539 (but not of Roxburgh). S. Kurz (Journal 

 As. Soc. of Bengal, xlii. pt. ii. 1873, 106) identifies it with a sinulai shrub which 

 grows in Pegu and Martaban {F. pyrrhocarpa, Kurz), but the identity of the 

 Burman and North Indian species seems doubtful. The North Indian shrub 

 has rough and hairy branchlets, lanceolate opposite leaves, approximate near 

 the ends of branches, 5-7 in. long, narrowed into a short hairy petiole, harsh on 

 both sides with short adpressed hairs, stipules lanceolate, persistent, hairy ; 

 receptacles hairy, with circular raised tubercles, and a few scales on the outer 

 surface, pedunculate, on short leafless bracteate panicles from the old wood ; 

 perianth of female fl. none or early caducous, style long filiform, hairy. Far- 

 ther inquiries may perhaps identify it with, either F. lanceolaia, Buch., Roxb. 

 1. c. 557 ; Miq. Ann. iii. 297, or F. laminosa, Hardwicke ; Roxb. 531 ; Madden 

 As. Soc. Joum. xviii. i. 643— Vem. Chancherri, the leaves used to feed cattle. 



5. F. heterophylla, Linn, fil.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 532 ; Wight Ic. t. 659, is a 

 straggling shrub, with alternate, short-petiolate, very rough leaves, either undi- 

 vided oluong, or variously lobed. Receptacles axillary in pairs, pedunculate, 

 yellow when ripe, with whitish scabrous spots. On the banks of rivers and in 

 moist places generally. Oudh, Banda district (Edgeworth), Bengal, South India, 

 Ceylon. 



6. F. repens, Willd.; Roxb. 1. c. 535 ; Wight Ic. t. 636, is a small scandent or 

 procumbent shrub, with rooting stems, common in grass-lands of Oudh, Bengal, 

 Burma and South India ; leaves alternate, long-petiolate, very rough, ovate, often 

 with cordate base, imdivided or variously lobed. Fruit obovoid, narrowed into 

 a long stalk, supported at the base by bracts, the stalk as long as or longer than 

 the axillary solitary peduncle. Male fl. few, near the mouth of receptacle, monan- 

 drous, perianth of 4 hyaline oblong segments ; female fl. numerous, perianth of 

 5 thin hyaline lanceolate segments ; style short, undivided. 



9. CUDRANIA, Trecul. 



Spinose shrub with alternate leaves and axillary globose flower-heads. 

 Flowers dioicous. Male fl. : perianth of 4-5 narrow segments, concave 

 and obtuse above. Stamens 4, pistil rudimentary. Female fl. of 4 im- 



