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FOEEBT TREES. 



timber -wMcli is said to be durable under ground. 

 Fibre, gum, and medicine, are well known products 

 of the genus. > 



Cultivation.— Mulberry plants are easily raised 

 from cuttings, and these, as also tbe sapling and 

 matured trea, require a moist situation for healthy 

 growth. Strongly rooted plants are also somewhat 

 gross feeders requiring rich plant food in the form 

 of sheep and farm-yard manures. With these ad- 

 vantages, and a systematic mode of treatment during 

 the extreme seasons, the mulberry could be made 

 more productive of fruit than we usually see it on 

 the plateau of Mysore. 



537 Ficus gibbosa var parasitica, Koen. Kan. 



Goddu mitli mara. 



'Fig— King Fie. PI 2. h. ; Wight Ic. t. 653. 



B.eference.—Fl. of Brit. Ind. 

 A small evergreen tree found in the clefts of rocks 

 and on stony hills. The rough leaves vary a good 

 deal in size and form, and are occasionally used to 

 pohsh household utensils. Fruit produced singly or 

 in pairs at the base of the leaves, and on slender 

 stalks nearly equal to the length of the receptacle 

 slightly hairy, and not larger than a small pea! 

 1 he root-bark possesses medicinal properties. 

 538 Ficus DalhousiaB, Miq. 

 Fig.— King Fie. PI. 11. 



A tree, 30-40 feet. Young shoots softly pubes- 

 cent Leaves subcoriaceous, rather long petiolate, 

 broadly ovate, with acute apex, base cordate, nerves 

 promment on the under side. Fruit in axiUarv 

 pairs, shortly pedunculate, obovoid, densely hairv ■ 

 the size of a dove's egg. This species is mostft 

 confined to the Malnad, where it is probablv ever- 

 green. Uses unknown. ^ '^^ 



