1186 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
The light rings occasionally anastomose. Pores moderate-sized 
to large, scanty, irregularly distributed. Medullary rays 
moderately broad, light coloured, rather short, not numerous. 
(Gamble). Leaves thinly coriaceous (broad, rhomboid, says 
Gamble), often very unequal-sided, angular and with intra- 
marginal veins, the lowest pair of the base usually running 
near the edge, intermediate and tertiary distinct. Petiole 
|-yin. ; stipules y-£in., ovate-lanceolate, convolute. Male 
sepals 4-6, linear, fleshy, hairy; stamens 1, filament short, united 
by its base to an abortive (insect attached) pistil. Gall flowers 
perianth of the male ; ovary globose, smooth ; style short, 
lateral. Female sepals 4, hyaline, linear, slightly hairy ; achene 
slightly papillose, obliquely ovoid. Style lateral, elongate. 
Receptacles minutely hairy, 4-|in. diam., peduncle up to yin. 
long, bracts at base of the peduncles. Fruit yellow when ripe. 
A variable species. 
Uses : — The decoction of the root acts as a powerful aperient. 
The root-bark is stomachic and gently aperient. The leaves 
are used to polish ivory and given to cattle, being supposed 
to increase the flow of milk. 
1176. F . bengalensis, Linn., h.f.b.i., v. 499. 
Syn. : — Ficus indica, Linn., Roxb. 639. 
Sans. : — Vata. 
Vern : — Bor, ber, bargad (H.) ; Bot (B. and Ass.) ; Boi 
(Kol.); Boru (Ur.); Bare (Santal); Ranket (Garo) ; Borhar 
(Nep.) ; Kangji (Lep.) ; Bor, bohr (Pb.) ; Baagat, bar (Pushtu) ; 
Phagwari (Hazara) ; Wur, bur (Sind) ; War, vada(Mar.); Ala 
(Tam.) ; Mari, peddi mari (Tel.) ; Ahlada, (Kan.), Peralu, 
peralin (Mai). 
Habitat: — Planted in all the plains of India ; wild only in 
the Sub-Himalayan forests and on the lower slopes of the 
Deccan Hills. 
A large or very laige tree, branches spreading, sending down 
to the ground numerous aerial roots which afterwards become 
trunks. Bark yin. thick, greyish-white, smooth, exfoliating in 
