MYSORE AND COOEG. 



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should be a trustworthy man, should be directed to 

 remove the covering of the bed morning and even- 

 ing, and give the young plants a free allowance of 

 sunshine daily. 



" Several nursery beds should now be prepared. , 

 They should be heavily manured, and 4 inches of 

 the surface made of sifted soil. As in the case of 

 seed bed, a |- inch sifted brick or tile dust will be 

 found necessary. Into these nursery beds, delicate 

 young seedlings should be carefully pricked out 

 1 foot apart, with a porcupine quill or a strip 

 of bamboo, when ^ inch in height. In these 

 nursery beds, the young plants should remain 

 till- 3 feet high, and then be planted out permanent- 

 ly from 40 to 60 feet apart, in -pits 3x3 feet." 



545 Ficus Trimeni, King. 



Fig. — King Fie. PI- 55. 



This fine species will probably be found in the 

 Malnad. It is one of the largest with a few aerial 

 roots. Fohage glabrous and shining. Leaves petio- 

 late, — petiole 1 in. or less, — coriaceous, ovate-ellip- 

 tic, acute or bluntish ; average blade, in matured 

 trees, 2 x 3-|- in. Fruit in sessile pairs, globular, the 

 size of an Bnghsh pea. This is possibly Mr. Graham 

 Anderson's Hub Busree, of which the writer would 

 like to examine specimens. 



546 Ficus retusa, Linn. Kan. Pilala, Jivi, Pinval, 



Pilaka ? Tel. Terra juvi. 



mg.-King Fie. PI. 61, 62; Wight Ic. t. 642. 



References.— Fl. of Brit. Ind. ; Diet, of Fcon. 

 Prod, of Ind. ; Pharm. Ind. 



A large evergreen tree of variable character, the 

 extreme forms being occasionally mistaken for dis- 

 tinct species. Planted throughout the maidan and 

 plentiful around the margins of the Malnad forests, 

 and in Coorg. Aerial roots not ^very numerous. 



