HIM 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
long, secondary nerves 8-10 pair, the lowest pair from the base. 
Fruit sessile or shortly peduncled, J-J-in. diam., basal bracts 
minute. 
Uses : — The bark of this, along with the barks of other four 
species of Ficus and of Melia azadirachta, pass by the name of 
Panchavalkala (or the five barks) ; they are used in combina- 
tion. A decoction is much employed as a gargle in salivation, 
as a wash for. ulcers, and as an injection in leucorrhoea. 
(Watt.; 
1182. F. heterophylla, Linn., h.f.b.i., v. 518, 
Roxb. 637, 638. 
Sans. : — Trayamana. 
Venn. Gaori-shiora, baMbahuli, balalala ghoti-suara, bhui- 
dumur, ballam dumur (B.) ; Pakhur (H.) ; Datri (Mar); Buroni 
(Tel.) ; Valli-teragam (Mai.). 
Habitat : —Throughout the hotter parts of India., near water, 
from the Gangetic Plain eastwards and southwards to Perak 
and Ceylon. 
A shrub sometimes creeping on the ground or over rocks, 
with short, pubescent stem and branches, the leaves very vari-. 
able, scabrid. Leaves petiolate, memberanous ; general outline 
usually more or less ovate-elliptic, but varying irom elongate- 
lanceolate to ovate or ovate-round, often irregularly 3 to many- 
lobed, with the apex more or less acuminate, the edges irregu- 
larly and coarsely dentate or dentate-repand ; the base blunt, 
rounded, or cordate, 3-to-5 nerved ; both surfaces scabrous, and 
covered with short, stiff hairs ; lateral nerves from 4-8 pair ac- 
cording to the length of the leaf (in the much-lobed leaves the 
nervation is palmate) ; length of blade 2 to 4in., petioles varying 
from 5 to 2-5in.; stipules 2 to each leaf scarious, ovate, glabrous 
or nearly so, 3 to 4in. long. Receptacles on peduncles of 
varying length, solitary, axillary, spherial to elongated-pyriform, 
always with a more or less prominent mammillate umbilicus 
which is but imperfectly closed by bracts, more or less hispid, 
scabrid, and sometimes verrucose when young ; when ripe nearly 
smooth, dark-orange, 4 to lin. long ; basal bracts minute, 
triangular, glabrous (in the much elongated forms appearing 
