Ficus,] 



81. URTICACE^. 



331 



large shrub or small tree. Bark tliin, grey, rough, inner milky. The 

 opposite leaves distinguish this from the other species of Ficus growing in 

 the Bombay presidency. Wood soft, grey, no heartwood. Pores scanty, 

 moderate-sized, subdivided. Medullary rays moderately broad and fine. 

 Concentric, regular bands of soft tissue. Weighs 35 lbs. to the cub. ft.., 

 Receptacles hispid, sometimes hypogeal, ridged at the top. 



19. F. glomerata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 558 ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 535 ; Brandis 

 For. Fl. 422 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 224. OovelUa glomerata, Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 243. Umhur, M. ; Rumadi^ atti, K.. ; GooleVf Hind. 



Salt range and Rajputana to the Khasia Mountains, Burma, Deccan 

 peninsula and Ceylon. Common throughout the presidency, near villages 

 along roadsid^ and near streams and rivers. Fr. ripe throughout the year 

 at different times. A middle-sized or large tree. Bark brownish-grey, 

 rather smooth, scaly. Wood dull reddish grey, soft, mottled on a 

 longitudinal section, lasts well under water, but otherwise exposed 

 quickly decays. Pores large or moderate-sized, few, enclosed in broad 

 bands of soft reddish tissue. Medullary rays moderately broad. Weighs 

 about 20 lbs. to the cub. ft. Fruit is eaten raw and cooked by the poor.. 

 One of the best shade trees in the Mysore coffee plantations.. 



9. ARTOCABPUS, E^rst., 



Evergreen trees with milky juice. Leaves alternate, often very 

 large, coriaceous, entire or divided. Flowers monoicous, minute, on the 

 outside of globose or oblong receptacles, often mixed with peltate 

 bracts ; the males and females on separate heads. Male fl. Perianth of 

 2-4-segments, imbricate in bad. Stamen 1, erect. Female fl. Perianth 

 tubular, entire, connate and confluent below with the receptacle, mouth 

 minute. Style simple, usually exserted. Ovary 1-celled, ovule 1, 

 pendulous. Fruit a syncarpium consisting of the enlarged fleshy 

 carpels and perianths, (anthocarps) eack enclosing a nut or achene deeply 

 sunk in the fleshy mass. Albumen 0, embryo straight or incurved,, 

 cotyledons fleshy, equal or unequal j radicle short, superior. 



Fruit tubercled, 1-2-feet long, oblong or cylindric 1. J., integrifolia. 



Fruit spinous, size of a lemon, spines hispid, curved, perforate 2. A, hirsuta. 

 Fruit smooth, globose, 2-3-inches in diameter ... ... 3. A, LahoocTia* 



A. incisa, L. ; Fl. Br. I. 5. 589. Vilayti phunnas, M..; Breadfruit Tree. 

 Cultivated near the coast of the Konkan and North Kanara. 



1. A. integrifolia. Linn. f. Suppl. 412 ; Fl. Br. 1. 5.541 ; Brandis For. 

 Fl. 425; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 244; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 219. Gamble 

 Ind. Timb. 329 ; Rheede Hort. Mai. III. t. 26-28. Halsina, K. ; Phmnas^ 

 M. ; Jackf ruit Tree. 



Western ghats from the Konkan southwards. Cultivated near villages 

 throughout the Konkan and ]N"orth Kiinara, often planted along road- 

 sides, F. C, S. Fr. ripe R, S. (June-Aug.) A large tree. Bark thin 

 scaly, inner bright yellow, corky. Wood bright yellow, darkening on 

 exposure, compact, even-grained, moderately hard, seasons well. Pores 

 of different sizes sometimes filled with a white rosin, in irregular 



