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thickly coriaceons, smooth above, beneath with the petioles tomen- 

 tose and pubescent : costal veins 3 to 10, spreading, confluent at the 

 margin, much reticulated and very prominent beneath, fruit axillary, 

 sessile, generally twin, eUipsoid obtuse at both endsj bracts 3, obtuse, 

 membranaceous, pubescent. 



Bombay. 



(10) TJ. coEBrFOLiinsi. (Dah.) 

 Ident. Dalz. 1. c. p. 242. 



Spec. Chae. Tree : leaves on very long petioles, broad-cordaife, 

 with a short and sudden acumination, rather membranaceous with 

 waved margins, finely reticulated beneath (lateral veins spreading 

 and prominent), perfectly smooth : fruit paired, sessile, round, smooth, 

 black, of the size and appearance of a black cherry. 



Ghauts. 



(11) U. volubile. (Dalz.} 



Ident. Dalz. 1. c. 



Syn. II. Ampelos, .ffb«M. Dah. I. e. p. S15> ? 



Spec. Chae. Climbing, shrubby, and often a tree with a stem as 

 thick as a man's arm : leaves alternate, very shortly petioled, some- 

 what ovate, suddenly acuminated, very unequal-sided, cuneate 

 towards the base : lateral nerves, 3 to 4 on each side, promiaent 

 spreading, uniting in arches, pale-green, hard and roughish to the 

 touch, though smooth, 3 to 4 inches long, sometimes a little toothed 

 on the margin ; fruit small. 



Eocky places on the Ghauts. Tanjore. 



GENUS VI. FICUS. 



Poly^amia Dioecla. Sexr St/st, 



Gen. Chab. Receptacle fleshy, closed, globose or pear-shaped, 

 scaly, bracteated at the base, throat closed by small scales : flowers 

 numerous, very small, pedicelled on the inner surface of the recep- 

 tacle, packed together, dioecious, or upper ones male, rest female. 

 JUah. Perianth 3-parted : stamens 3 : filaments capUlary r anthers 

 introrse, 2-celled, incumbent. Female. Perianth 5-cleft, tube decur- 

 rent into the pedicel : ovary somewhat laterally placed on a short 

 gynophore, 1-ceUed : ovule one, amphitropal : style lateral, con- 

 tinuous to the gynophore, filiform, stigma Portly 2-eleft : fructi- 

 ferous receptacle succulent : seed parietal, uncinate : testa hard, 

 fragile. — Lofty trees or eHmbing shrubs, lactescent : leaves alternate,, 

 entire or lobed, stipulate : stipules large, convolute, concealing the 

 terminal buds, deciduous or persistent : receptacles axillary, solitary, 

 or packed together, very rarely terminal and racemose. 



