N. 0. URTIOACE/E. 
1185 
basal nerves 3-5. Flowers monoecious, the sexes often on 
distinct branches. Spikes short, under 2 inches. Perianth of 
male Sewers : — Sepals hairy, elliptic. Sepals of females 4, the 2 
inner Sat or concave, the outer more or less keeled. Female 
spikes ovoid, pedunculate. Styles free, short. Fruiting spikes 
peduncled, white or red, sweet. 
Use-.—' The sweet, deep-red juice of the white or red form 
of the fruit is used for sore-throat, and acts as a pleasant refri- 
gerant in cases of fever. The fruit is employed, by hakims, as 
remedy for sorethroat, dyspepsia and melancholia. The bark is 
considered purgative and anthelmintic. (Punjab Products.) 
The seeds, on extraction with ether, yield 88 per cent (A) and on pressing 
24 p. c., (B) of a thick golden-yellow oil with a faint odour and a pleasant 
taste. It is very soluble in boiling 05 p. c. alcohol, soluble in an equal volume 
of absolute alcohol at SO^C. or of acetic acid at 41°C ; easily soluble in all 
fat solvents. 
1174. M. nigra, Linn., h.f.b.i, v. 492. 
If specifically distinct, this plant, cultivated in Baluchistan, 
is allied to M. alba, Linn. The leaves are broader, firm, thick, 
5-nerved, sub-sessile ; sepals and styles densely hairy, purple. 
Fruit acidulous-sweet. 
Uses : — It is used like the other species of this genus. 
1175. Ficus gibbosa, Blume., h.f.b.i., y. 496. 
Syn. : — F. excelsa, Vahl., Roxb. 641. 
Savs. : — Udumbar. 
Vern. Datir (Bomb.); Umbar (Guz. and Mar.) ; Kouda- 
juvee ; Tellabarin ka (TelA 
Habitat : — Bases of the hill ranges throughout India from 
Kumaon eastwards to Burma and southwards to Ceylon. 
A small or at times large tree, erect, often epiphytic or 
climbing, enclosing the trunk of trees in a perfect network of 
branches or creeping along the walls and on the sides of wells. 
“Bark thin, smooth, greenish-yellow. Wood light-brown or 
grey, soft to moderately hard, divided into alternate, broad, hard, 
dark, and narrow, light, soft, more or less wavy, concentric rings. 
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