N. 0. URTICACE^E. 1189 



acuminate, 2-3 Jin. long, rigidly cliartaceous, entire, glabrous ; 

 the nerves thin, much crowded and uniting near the margin, 

 all parallel with a transverse net venation between, prominent 

 on both sides ; receptacles sessile by pair or solitary in the 

 axils of the leaves, globular or almost obovate and nar- 

 rowed at the base, varying in size from \ to fin. in diameter, 

 blood-red when fully ripe, glabrous, 3-bracted, the lateral bracts 

 broad, but short, rounded, glabrous. Male flower, very few 

 scattered, pedicelled ; sepals 2, large, flat ; anther subsessile. 

 Gall flower, mostly pedicelled ; sepals 3 or 4, long, spathulate, 

 ovary ovoid, smooth. Female flower sessile ; Sepals shortly 

 spathulate, achene ovoid-reniform, longer than the style, stigma 

 large. 



Uses : —A decoction of the leaves mixed with oil is believed 

 in Malabar to be a good application to ulcers. (Drury.) 



1178. F. return, Linn., h.f.b.l, v. 511. 



Syn. : — F. Benjamina, Willd., Roxb. 643. 



Vern. : — Kamrup, Zir (H. B.) ; Butisa (Kol.) ; Sunumjon 

 (Santal) ; Jili (Chutia Nagpur) ; Jamu (Nepal) ; Sitnyok (Lepcha); 

 Nandruk (Mar.); Yerrajuvi, nandireka (Tel.); Pilala, pinval 

 (Kan.) 



Habitat: — Base of the Eastern Himalaya, Khasia Hills, 

 Assam and the Deccan Peninsula. 



A large, evergreen umbrageous, tree, often epiphytic, aerial 

 roots slender, quite glabrous. " Bark brown, fairly smooth. 

 Wood light, reddish-grey, moderately hard, with narrow, wavy 

 bands of soft tissue, alternating with broader bands of firm 

 texture. Pores moderate-sized, often sub-divided, scanty. 

 Medullary rays short, moderately broad." (^Gamble). Leaves 

 elliptic, ovate or obovate, apex rounded, or shortly and bluntly 

 acuminate ; blade 2-4 inches, narrowed into petiole, i-Jin. Male 

 flowers numerous, scattered, sessile, or short-pedicelled ; sepals 

 3, sub-spathulate; stamen single ; anther cordate, apiculate, as 

 long as the filaments. Gall flowers sessile or pedicelled ; 

 sepals 3, broadly spathulate; ovary smooth. Female flowers 

 sessile, much smaller than in the gall ; styles of both short ; 



