326 



81. URTICACE^. 



[Ficus. 



(Series 3.) Leaves coriaceous. Stamens usually 2 (1 in F, callosa), 



Receptacles peduncled, solitary, li in. in diameter, 

 green, scabrid ... ... ... 15, F, callosa. 



Sycidium. Flowers unisexual ; male and gall-flowers in one of the 

 receptacles, female in another set. Males monandrous. Shrubs, small 

 trees or climbers, rarely epiphytic. Leaves alternate, small, more or less 

 scabrid. Receptacles small, chiefly axillary, rarely fascicled. 



Leaves coarsely-toothed or repand, scabrid. Re- 

 ceptacles solitary, axillary, peduncled, small, 



scabrid, green. A shrub ... ... 16. J*, heterophylla. 



Leaves scabrous, hispid, toothed. Receptacles 

 peduncled, globose, 1 in, in diameter, yellow or 

 purple .., ... ... ... 17. i^. asperrima. 



Covellia. Flowers unisexual ; male and gall-flowers in the same 

 receptacle. Fern. fl. in separate receptacles. Male fl. monandrous. 

 Sepals 3-4 Fem. perianth gamophyllous or 0, rarely of 4-5 sepals. 

 Trees or shrubs never epiphytes or climbers. Leaves alternate or oppo- 

 site. Receptacles on long branches from near the base of the stem or 

 sub-hypogeal, or on the trunk or large branches, rarely axillary. 



Leaves opposite. Receptacles peduncled, fascicled 

 on the old wood or on leafy branches, hispid, 

 yellowish, sometimes hypogeal ... ... 18. F, hispida, 



Neomorphe. Flowers unisexual. Male and gall-flowers in one set of 

 receptacles ; Fem. fl. in a distinct set, smaller than the males. Male fl. 

 diandrous ; perianth inflated, 3-4-sepalous. Trees, never epiphytes. Re- 

 ceptacles often large, in clusters from tubercles on the stem and large 

 branches. 



Leaves alternate, membranous, glabrous. Re- 

 ceptacles large, red, on short axillary branches, 

 scaly and leafless from the trunk ... ... 19. F, glomerata, 



1. P. gibbosa, Blume Bijd. 466 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 496. F, parasitica, 

 Keen. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 224 ; Brandis For. Fl. 420. TTrostigma ampeloSy 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 315. U. voluhile, Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. FL 

 242. F. Uiherculata, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 224. Batir, Vera. ; JJmhar, Guz. 



Throughout India from Kumaon to Burma and southwards to the 

 Malay Peninsula, Andamans and Ceylon. Throughout the presidency, 

 common on old walls or on the sides of wells, also epiphytic ; throughout 

 the moist and dry forests of the western ghdts. Fruit Apl.-May, yellow 

 when ripe. 



Wood dark or Kght brown, moderately hard. The wavy bands of 

 both soft and harder tissues are of equal width. Medullary rays in- 

 distinct. Weighs 42 lbs. to the cub. ft. 



2. F. bengalensis, Linn. Hort. Cliff. 471. n. 4; Fl. Br. L 5. 499 ; 



Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 222; Brandis For. Fl. 412. F. indica, Roxb. TTrostigma 

 hengalense, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 240. Banyan Tree. Wad, alada^ 

 vadif Vern. ; Alf K. j Wur^ bur^ Sind. 



