N. 0. URIICACE^E. 1197 



cordate or narrowed and subcunate ; 3-5-nerved ; primary lateral 

 nerves 3-5 pairs ; secondary nerves rather straight ; reticulations 

 fine ; the lower surface hispid-pubescent, the upper hispid- 

 scabrid ; length 4-9in. (in young shoots as much as 12in.) ; 

 petioles from |-ljin. long (in young shoots often 3-3 Jin.), 

 densely hispid-pubescent ; stipules 2 to each leaf, ovate-lanceo- 

 late, pubescent externally, glabrous internally ; about iin. 

 long, often in shoots of four on the receptacles bearing leafless 

 branches. Receptacles shortly pedunculate, turbinate, ovoid, or 

 sub-pyriform, slightly umbonate, hispid and sometimes with 

 bracts scattered along their sides ; yellowish when ripe and 

 from i-lin. across ; umbilicus rather large ; basal bracts 3, borne 

 on peduncles, l-'i'm. long, in pair from the axils of the leaves, 

 or in fascicles from shortened tuberculate branches from the 

 old wood, or in pair or fascicles on elongate, stipular, bracteate, 

 sometimes leafy, branches issuing from the larger branches 

 of the stem, and often reaching to or even penetrating the 

 soil. Male flowers rather numerous near the apex of the recep- 

 tacles containing the galls ; the perianth of 3 concave hyaline 

 pieces ; stamen 1 ; the anther broad, filament short; gall flowers 

 pedicillate with no obvious perianth ; the ovary smooth, globu- 

 lar ; style short, sub-terminal ; stigma dilated. Fertile female 

 flowers like the galls as regards perianth ; the achene ovoid ; 

 the stye long, lateral hairy ; the stigma cylindric tubular. 



Uses : — According to Sanskrit writers the figs of this plant 

 promote the secretion of milk. They are also supposed to 

 preserve the foetus in the womb. (U. C. Dutt.) The acrid 

 milk is used medicinally in Kangra. In Bombay and the 

 Concan, the powdered fruit heated with water to form a poultice 

 is applied to buboes. It is also given to milch cattle to dry 

 up their milk. (Dymock.) 



According to the report of Mr. Moodeen Sheriff, the fruit, 

 seeds and bark are possessed of valuable emetic properties. 

 The most eligible form of administration appears to be the 

 seeds of the ripe fruit, dried and preserved from moisture in 

 stoppered bottles. The close is about one drachm, which in 

 effect is equal to four or six of the* ripe fruit. The emetic 



