1200 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



perianth tubular, short, covering only the pedicel of the rhom- 

 boid minutely tuberculate achene. Style much longer than 

 the achene ; stigma cylindric or clavate. 



Uses: — It possesses, according to the experience of Mr. 

 Moodeen Sheriff, all the medicinal properties of the preceding 

 F. hispida. It is desirable to know more of the properties of 

 these trees. (Ph. Ind.) 



1187. F. palmata, Forsk., h.f.b.l, v. 530. 



Syn. : — F. carica, Linn. Roxb. 636. 



Vern. : — Gular, khabara, anjiri, beru, bedu (H.) ; Phagwara, 

 kak, kok, phedu, inzar, phag, kirmi, pbagoru, fagu, phog, 

 khabare, phegra, thapur, jamir, dhuru, dhudi, daholia (Pb.) ; 

 Phagwara (Pushtu); Anjir, inzar (Afg.) ; Kembri (Raj.); 

 Dhoura (C. P.) ; Pepri (Guz.) ; Fagwara, Thapur (Plains of 

 Upper India). 



Habitat:— N.-W. India, from the Indus eastwards to Oudh, 

 ascending to 3,000ft. in the Himalaya, Mt. Aboo. 



A bush or moderate-sized tree. Shoots tomentose, pubescent 

 or glabrous. Bark grey, smooth. Wood white, close and even- 

 grained, moderately hard, with wavy crescentic bands of soft 

 tissue, alternating with bands of equal width of firmer tissue. 

 Pores very small and moderate-sized, often oval and sub-divided. 

 Medullary rays fine and moderately broad ; unequally distri- 

 buted. (Gamble.) Branches solid, with a large pith ; branchlets, 

 petioles and underside of leaf soft-tomentose. Leaves rough 

 above, broad-ovate, dentate, at times deeply lobed ; base 

 truncate or cordate, sometimes abruptly narrowed to the 

 petiole ; blade 3-5, petiole l-2in. long ; 3-5 basal nerves ; secon- 

 dary nerves on midrib 3-6 pairs. Stipules in pairs, ovate, acute, 

 pubescent, deciduous. Receptacles axillary, more or less pear- 

 shaped, umbonate, i-lin. diam. ; usually pubescent, yellow 

 when ripe, edible ; basal bracts deciduous 3, acute, at the base 

 of the stalk which often lengthen out to ^in. as the fruit 

 ripens, peduncle J-lin. Perianth ciliate with long hairs. 

 Male flowers on hairy pedicels, sepals 4-5, lanceolate, hairy. Gall 

 flowers, sessile or pedicelled ; perianth deeply 5-cleft ; ovary 



