N. 0. URTXOACE/E. 
1189 
acuminate, 2-3|in. long, rigidly chartaceous, entire, glabrous ; 
the nerves thin, much crowded and uniting near the margin, 
all parallel with a transverse net venation between, prominent 
on both sides ; receptacles sessile by pair or solitary in the 
axils of the leaves, globular or almost obovate and nar- 
rowed at the base, varying in size from £ to fin. in diameter, 
blood-red when fully ripe, glabrous, 3-bracted, the lateral bracts 
broad, but short, rounded, glabrous. Male flower, very few 
scattered, pedicel led ; sepals 2, large, flat ; anther subsessile. 
Gall floweri mostly pedicelled ; sepals 3 or 4, long, spathulate, 
ovary ovoid, smooth. Female flower sessile ; Sepals shortly 
spathulate, achene ovoid-reniform, longer than the style, stigma 
large. 
Uses : — A decoction of the leaves mixed with oil is believed 
in Malabar to be a good application to ulcers. (Drury.) 
1178 . F. retusa, Linn., h.f.b.i., v. 511 . 
Syn. : — F. Benjamina, Willd.., Roxb. 643. 
Vern. Kamrup, Zir (H. B.) ; Butisa (Kol.) ; Sunumjon 
(Santal); Jili(Chutia Nagpur); Jamu (Nepal); Sitnyok (Lepcha); 
Nandruk (Mar.); Yerrajuvi, nandireka (Tel.); Pilila, pinval 
(Kan.) 
Habitat: — Base of the Eastern Himalaya, Khasia Hills, 
Assam and the Deccan Peninsula. 
A large, evergreen umbrageous, tree, often epiphytic, aerial 
roots slender, quite glabrous. “ Bark brown, fairly smooth. 
Wood light, reddish-grey, moderately hard, with narrow, wavy 
bands of soft tissue, alternating with broader bands of firm 
texture. Pores moderate-sized, often sub-divided, scanty. 
Medullary rays short, moderately broad.” ^Gamble). Leaves 
elliptic, ovate or obovate, apex rounded, or shortly and bluntly 
acuminate ; blade 2-4 inches, narrowed into petiole, £-|in. Male 
flowers numerous, scattered, sessile, or short-pedicelled ; sepals 
3, sub-spatbulate ; stamen single ; anther cordate, apiculate, as 
long as the filaments. Gall flowers sessile or pedicelled ; 
sepals 3, broadly spathulate; ovary smooth. Female flowers 
sessile, much smaller than in the gall ; styles of both short ; 
