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cordate or narrowed and subcunate ; 3-5-nerved ; primary lateral 
nerves 3-5 pairs ; secondary nerves rather straight ; reticulations 
fine ; the lower surface hispid-pubescent, the upper hispid- 
scabrid ; length 4-9in. (in young shoots as much as 12in.) ; 
petioles from £-ljin. long (in young shoots often 3-3$in.), 
densely hispid-pubescent ; stipules 2 to each leaf, ovate-lanceo- 
late, pubescent externally, glabrous internally ; about iin. 
long, often in shoots of four on the receptacles bearing leafless 
branches. Receptacles shortly pedunculate, turbinate, ovoid, or 
sub-pyriform, slightly umbonate, hispid and sometimes with 
bracts scattered along their sides ; yellowish when ripe and 
from |-lin. across ; umbilicus rather large ; basal bracts 3, borne 
on peduncles, J-^in. long, in pair from the axils of the leaves, 
or in fascicles from shortened tuberculute branches from the 
old wood, or in pair or fascicles on elongate, stipular, bracteate, 
sometimes leafy, branches issuing from the larger branches 
of the stem, and often reaching to or even penetrating the 
soil. Male flowers rather numerous near the apex of the recep- 
tacles containing the galls ; the perianth of 3 concave hyaline 
pieces ; stamen 1 ; the anther broad, filament short; gall flowers 
pedicillate with no obvious perianth ; the ovary smooth, globu- 
lar ; style short, sub-terminal ; stigma dilated. Fertile female 
flowers like the galls as regards perianth ; the achene ovoid ; 
the stye long, lateral hairy ; the stigma cylindric tubular. 
Uses : — According to Sanskrit writers the figs of this plant 
promote the secretion of milk. They are also supposed to 
preserve the foetus in the womb. (U. 0. Dutt.) The acrid 
milk is used medicinally in Kangra. In Bombay and the 
Concan, the powdered fruit heated with water to form a poultice 
is applied to buboes. It is also given to milch cattle to dry 
up their milk. (Dymock.) 
According to the report of Mr. Moodeen Sheriff, the fruit, 
seeds and bark are possessed of valuable emetic, properties. 
The most eligible form of administration appears to be the 
seeds of the ripe fruit, dried and preserved from moisture in 
stoppered bottles. The dose is about one drachm, which in 
effect is equal to four or six of the ripe fruit. The emetic 
