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Upper and Lower. Fr. edible, ripe May-Sept.— Perak. 52. F. prostrata, Wall. ; King, Ann 

 i.t.l35. Sikkim, outer ranges, ascending to 5,000 ft. Khasi hills. Cachar. A glabrous 

 slirub or small tree, often creep- 

 ing. L. lanceolate, entire, long 

 acuminate, blade 6-10, pet. \ in., 

 stipules as long as pet. Becep- 

 tacles I in. diam., in tlie axils of 

 scarious bracts, solitary or in 

 short racemes, on long prostrate 

 branches. 53. F. Ribes, Eeinwdt. ; 

 King, Ann. i. t. 144 South 

 Tenasserim (Kurz). Malay 

 Penins. and Archip. New 

 Guinea. Similar to 52, shoots 

 strigose with minute hairs, 1. 

 3-5 in,, receptacles ^ in. diam. 

 This and some allied species are 

 dioecious (Solms-Lau,bach in Bot. 

 Zeit. 1885, 534). 54. F. fistulosa, 

 Pveinwdt. \ King, Ann. i. tt. 150, 

 151. Khasi hills. Chittagong. 

 Lower Burma (Kurz). Malay 

 Penins. and Archip. Formosa. 

 {Kurz's F, fistulosa probably also 

 includes F. MlqiielU, King, a 

 Malayan species.) — A shrub or 

 small tree, branches stout, often 

 hollow, nodes of young shoots 

 most minutely hairy, 1. some- 

 times opposite, glabrous, gran- 

 ulate beneath, entire or slightly 

 serrate, elongate-elliptic, blade 

 4-10, pet. J-ll in. long, stipules 

 scarious, Beceiptiacles J-1 in. 

 diam., axillary, or on the old 

 wood, often clustered, peduncles 

 up to 1| in. long. 



Sec. VI. Eiisyce, S ±1. as 

 a rule diandrous (lepiclosa 1, 

 hirta 1-3, nemoralis and 

 laevis 2 ov 3, Carica gener- 

 ally 3 stamens) in the same 

 receptacle with gall fl. 9 

 fi. in distinct receptacles. L. alternate, recsptacles axillary. 



A. Erect shrubs or trees, 



ici) Branchlets and underside of 1. densely hairy : 1. dentate, serrate or 

 lobed. 



55. F. palmata, Forsk.; Collett Simla Fl. 460, fig. 148; King, Ann. i. t. 185.— Syn. 

 F, caricoides^ Eoxb. ; F. mrgata, Roxb. ; "Wight Ic. t. 649. Yern. Bedu^ Khemri, Hind. ; 

 Fhagwdra, Haz. ; P/ier ?<, Jauns. ; iTem^H, Merw. Baluchistan. Eastern slopes of the 

 Suleiman range. Salt range and plains of the Punjab. Mt. Abu. Merwara. North- 

 West Himalaya from the foot to 5,000, on the Sutlej to 9,000 ft., eastwards a,s far as 

 Nepal. Cultivated in North India, A small or middle-sized tree, bark smooth, grey, 

 branches solid with a large pith, branchlets, petioles, young shoots and underside of 1. 

 sof t-tomentose. L. rough above, broad-ovate, dentate, at times deeply lobed, base trun- 

 cate or cordate, sometimes abruptly narrowed to the petiole, blade 3-5, pet. 1-2 in. long, 

 3-5 basal nerves, sec. n. onmidrib 3-6 pair. Perianth ciliate with long hairs* Beceptaclea 

 axillary, more or less pear-shaped, J-1 in. diam., usually pubescent, yellow, edible when 

 ripe, basal bracts deciduous, at the base of the stalk, which often lengthens out to 

 J in., as the fr. ripens, peduncle J-1 in* 56. F. fulva, Beinwdt. 5 King, Ann. i. t, 187. 

 Andamans and Nicobars. — Malay Penins. and Archip. L. ovate, denticulate, often 

 deeply lobed. Beceptacles sessile, J in. diam., densely hairy, perianth glabrous. 57. 

 P. Carica, Linn. ; Hemsley in Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. (1888) t. 46 ; Solms-Laubach in Bot* 

 Zeit. 1885. 562. The Fig tree. Vern. Anjir, Hind. Indigenous in Baluchistan, 

 Afghanistan, Western Asia and the eastern Mediterranean region. Cultivated in 

 N. W. India a,nd the I^eccan, A shrub or small deciduous tree, branchlets and tinder- 



Fia. 188. — Picus Cunia. Ham. J. 



