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to polisH sandalwood carvings. When incautiously 

 handled, the milk-sap of this tree causes an uncom- 

 fortable irritation of the skin. The juice and bark 

 are well known remedies in the treatment of enlarged 

 liver and spleen. 



" Large trees generally make a clearance of the 

 coffee around them. The leaves are subject to the 

 attacks of a black fungus which frequently spreads 

 to the coffee below." Graham Anderson. 



Cultivation as in the case of fig trees generally, 

 but requiring a cool, damp situation. 

 556 Ficus hispida, Linn. Kan. Kadatti mara 



Fig.-King. Fie. PI 154 ^ 155 ; Wight Ic, L 



638, ^ 641. 

 'References.— Did. of Econ. Prod, of Ind. ; 



Pharm. Ind. 



This is the KdJcodumbarika or " crows' fig " of Sans- 

 krit writers, A small evergreen tree, common on 

 low hills and ascending to nearly 4,000 feet ; often 

 stunted or bushy in habit. Leaves opposite or 

 alternate, shortly petiolate, ovate to oblong or elKp- 

 tic, cuneate at the base, dentate when young, but 

 entire or nearly so when fully grown, very variable 

 in size and characteristically rough in all the young- 

 er parts; — hispid-pubescent, — average blade, under . 

 shade 4^11 in., under full exposure 21 x 5 in. Truit 

 usually hypogoeal at first, then ascending the trunk 

 and limbs progressively as the tree attains stature, 

 borne in clusters or fascicles, shortly stalked, very 

 hispid, globular to obovoid or slightly turbunate, 

 the size of a gooseberry, yellowish. Species remark- 

 ably prolific of fruit,, from which a clear liquid 

 exudes copiously during growth. Given to milch- 

 cows, this fruit possesses the protperty of arresting 

 the flow of milk. Rheede says that the fruit boiled 

 in goat's milk is usefully employed in the> treatment 

 of hepatic obstruction. It is also an emetic. 



